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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Colmena Consulting, in partnership with Philanthropy Together, collective giving through giving circlesinformal convenings of people with aligned values, identifying and collectively deciding where to direct pooled fundstotaled more than $3.1 billion between 2017 and 2023.

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Winning unrestricted funding from general operating-averse funders: The Greatest Needs Approach

Grant Professionals Association

Author Bio: Claire Honsinger, GPC is founder and principal consultant of Good Horse Grants, nonprofit funding advocacy and professional grant consulting. How do you respectfully push back on the burdensome requirements that many grant applications contain?

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Part 1: Behind the Curtain: What We Learned from Playing the Role of Reviewer

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

” Our President, Diane, has been serving as a reviewer since 2016, and members of our team have been serving as reviewers as well since 2023. The post Part 1: Behind the Curtain: What We Learned from Playing the Role of Reviewer appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services.

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Exploring Alternative Nonprofit Funding Sources: 6 Ideas

Get Fully Funded

million DAF accounts were open as of 2023, and the average value of a DAF account was $141,000. If you’re unsure about the best strategy, create a gift acceptance policy and consult with a nonprofit finance advisor to ensure alignment with your organization’s financial strategy and risk tolerance.

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Here come the Autonomists: Redefining nonprofit work 

Candid

Based on my experience as a consultant to nonprofit executive teams and advisor to women pursuing new ways of working, several factors have contributed to the Autonomist movement, especially among Black and brown women in nonprofit leadership roles. My favorite part is choosing who I work with [as] clients and collaborators.”

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Boosting volunteerism through virtual and one-off experiences

Candid

billion hours in 2023. Virtual volunteering is on the rise AmeriCorps measured virtual volunteering for the first time in 2023 and found that 18.1% of volunteers reported partially or entirely virtual participation between September 2022 and September 2023. In 2009, Americans gave 8.1 billion hours in 2017 and 4.1

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Congress passed the Grants Transparency Act of 2023 (H.R. As long-time grant writing consultants, we know that the most capable applicants try to produce the most competitive/compelling proposals and are far more successful in obtaining, administering, reporting on, and renewing federal funding than their inept peers.