Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

How does an enterprise-scale CRM provide better data for an AI application? Free Resource Enterprise Nonprofit CRM Evaluation Guide Download now 4. The kind of large, clean data sets AI systems require has historically been a point of weakness for nonprofit organizations.

CRM

Blackbaud

APRIL 23, 2025

After a lot of research, conversations with community members, and writingand re-writingquestions, your application for funding is live. Reviewing the applications and selecting the organizations to fund. Application portals can also flag incomplete submissions, prompting applicants to address any gaps before submitting.

Grant

Blackbaud

MARCH 31, 2025

This confirmation can help verify that the email address is correct and there have been no changes in contact information since the application was submitted. Finally, consider requesting acknowledgement that they received the notice of award.

Grant

Blackbaud

APRIL 14, 2025

As funders, youve probably worked with nonprofit organizations with staff nearing burnout, sending reports when they are supposed to be on vacation and completing applications when most people would be asleep. Start by ensuring every question in your application collects data that will genuinely inform your funding decisions.

Grant Management

Blackbaud

MARCH 20, 2025

Georgia Tech Foundations CRM integrates with more than two dozen applications to give fundraisers a complete picture of their constituents and a range of channels to communicate with them. These applications flow data from (and sometimes to) both external and internal sources.

CRM

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

Download Our Free Donor Engagement & Retention Playbook: 1) Immediate Email Confirmation Let’s start with the lowest hanging fruit. Begin the body of the email with a warm “thank you” and include the amount donated along with the name of the campaign that the donation was earmarked for, if applicable.

CRM

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

As Vu Le has highlighted, many traditional funding practices—such as overly complicated applications, delayed decisions, and excessive reporting—create unnecessary harm and waste. The application process includes the ability to submit three short responses in written, audio, or video format. Visit the Reporting Resource Hub.

Burnout

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 13, 2025

Also, as grant writers, we must translate these objectives logically and explicitly into grant applications, so that our nonprofit can be awarded the funds needed to crush the objectives and transform lives! Download our NEW 2025 SMART Objectives Toolkit.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JULY 15, 2025

Think of GivingTuesday like a grant application: Focusing on a specific need will make it easier for supporters to understand how their donation will make a difference for your mission. Downloading the guide is your first step. Knowing which needs to focus on makes it easier to identify your goal.

Goals

Blackbaud

AUGUST 6, 2025

Financial metrics like donor retention rate, average gift size, and grant application success rates provide a sense of how reliable your funding streams are. Having these projections already completed or ready to be updated makes the grant application easier.

Finance

Blackbaud

JANUARY 24, 2025

Here’s a common problem: Your fundraising team has to download donor information from your online giving platform, then re-key it all into your CRM by hand. Custom Built Integrations using APIs APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) give you more options for connecting systems. Now imagine if that all happened automatically.

CRM

NonProfit PRO

JULY 9, 2025

Automated Processing: Volunteers can log and track hours automatically using location services while complying with applicable privacy regulations, staying informed with automated push notifications that quickly notify you of changes and updates, and instantly process donations using any payment method. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

AI

Blackbaud

JUNE 20, 2025

The Department of Education capped indirect costs for research grants at 15%, regardless of the rates each grant had negotiated during the application process. Download our white paper, Accounting for the Full Cost of Impactful Programs , to better understand and manage your organization’s overhead costs.

Indirect Cost

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Give You More Insight Its hard to get the big picture if youre tracking data on a spreadsheet, or in six separate applications. Download our Free Complete Guide to Nonprofit CRMs today! But a nonprofit CRM doesnt just keep you organized. Your nonprofit CRM can: 1.

CRM

Blackbaud

JUNE 19, 2025

Many seek further sector-wide discussions on AI applications and limitations that are relevant to fundraising and hope for industry bodies and technology vendors to provide resources to get them started using AI more effectively. Download each regional Status of Fundraising 2025 report for free to explore these findings in more detail.

AI

Blackbaud

APRIL 21, 2025

Providing these expectations in the RFP can help potential applicants self-assess if it is worth their time to submit a response. Free Resource Nonprofit Change Management Toolkit Download now The post How to Write a Request for Proposals: 5 Tips for Nonprofits first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud.

Proposal

Blackbaud

JANUARY 28, 2025

They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who fit donors specific requirements, shepherd those students through the application process, manage scholarship review committees, disburse awards, and report back to the donors how their funds were utilized.

Award

Blackbaud

MARCH 24, 2025

The process starts from the first time you meet a studentwhether through an online application or a campus visitand it continues throughout the students time at your school. Start at Enrollment The billing process begins with a students application for enrollment.

Contract

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Give You More Insight Its hard to get the big picture if youre tracking data on a spreadsheet, or in six separate applications. Download our Free Complete Guide to Nonprofit CRMs today! But a nonprofit CRM doesnt just keep you organized. Your nonprofit CRM can: 1.

CRM

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Start saving 3 hours a week and increase your grant applications by 78%. If you miss a grant application deadline, reporting deadlines, it's all a big deal. When I'm getting ready to work on a big grant application, I tell my husband I'm going scuba diving. Is it with the application?

Instrumentl

Peak Proposals

JULY 20, 2025

In this post, we cover four lessons that we believe are universally applicable. USAID maintained a comprehensive website, published a variety of downloadable publications, and regularly posted updates on multiple social media accounts. Lessons from the Closure of USAID 1. It appeared to be covering all the bases.

Policies

Critical Fundraising

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Although the work we have done is in the specific context of the guidance from the Charity Commission as it relates to England and Wales, the ideas we’ve developed in the paper will have relevance and applicability in many other countries.

Ethics

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 13, 2022

Managing one grant application is a challenge. Managing multiple applications is a headache. Use the grant application management template to see what grant applications are in process, approved, or rejected as well as break down the to-dos for each grant from the initial application to reporting requirements.

Template

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. Getting your leadership on board with streamlining your grantee application may require some planning. This will help you identify areas that need improvement and the benefits of streamlining your application.

Application

NonProfit PRO

MAY 8, 2024

Visit the submission portal today to download guidelines, review criteria for evaluation, and submit your proposal! Whether your organization is looking for Momentum to Modernize, eager to Go Further, Faster, or innovate as a Pathfinder, round one submissions are due by 11:59PM EDT on June 3, 2024.

Application

Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2012

Back in April 2011, TechSoup ran an Earth Week campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of downloading a TechSoup software donation rather than having it shipped as a traditional boxed product. Our software download resource page is an excellent place to find out whether downloading is right for you as well as how to do it.

Software

RBW Strategy

JANUARY 24, 2024

Phase 1: The Pre-Award Phase The pre-award phase includes the grantor announcing the funding opportunity all the way through the application submission and review of grant applications. The grant-making agency announces the funding opportunity and advertises it to applicant communities. The funds are then dispersed.

Grants.Gov

NonProfit PRO

MARCH 25, 2022

Application instructions are available to download today and submissions are due by June 1, 2022. . (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the launch of the 2022 IMAGINE Grant Program, a public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the U.S.

Grant

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Available from Idealware's website as a free download, the updated guide compares 20 grants management systems, including popular offerings from Bromelkamp and MicroEdge. Complex application review needs. For more information and to download the full 169-page guide, head over to Idealware's website.

Grant Management Software

CauseVox

JANUARY 31, 2023

Applications are due on February 21, 2023. Sign up for Community Services Recovery Fund tips and updates: We will be launching free resources to help with the application process in the coming days and weeks. To learn more about the application process and evaluation criteria, download the Applicant Guide.

Funding

Grants.gov

AUGUST 8, 2018

When preparing your federal grant application, you would do well to put yourself – and your team – in the shoes of the people who will be evaluating it. A peer review panel is a group of subject matter experts, often from outside of the federal government, who evaluate grant applications using a set of criteria. What Is a Peer Review?

Federal Grants

NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 1, 2022

The process of identifying and obtaining those funds can be complicated without knowing what funders are looking for during applications. Download the report on what donors are looking for as they assess where they will give money. Nonprofit organizations need to secure funding to carry out their essential work in their communities.

Application

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This process ensures that the storytelling and supporting files in your grant application are easily understood, grammatically correct, and more. We always build mock review into our process for government grant applications in particular. We use three reviewers for each government application. The outcome. The outcome.

Readiness

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 18, 2024

Download guidelines and application tips today. With three grants to choose from, you can accelerate foundational IT projects or think big about ways to deliver on your mission in the cloud. Grants include an opportunity for unrestricted funding up to $200,000, AWS cloud credits of up to $100,000, and so much more.

Application

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 18, 2024

The choice is yours and the possibilities are endless, so download application instructions today. And new this year, if you’re looking to leverage generative AI, submit a proposal for the Pathfinder – Generative AI Award, inclusive of up to $200,000.

AI

Candid

JUNE 20, 2023

Download or export your search results as an image, PowerPoint deck, or PDF file to use in presentations or to create a snapshot in time for later reference. Request a downloadable file of demographic data People can also request a free copy of demographic data from Candid’s nonprofit profiles in a single, downloadable file.

Demographics

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 18, 2024

Part of the IMAGINE Grant program, funding will be provided to nonprofits pursuing scaled, repeatable solutions that directly accelerate mission through the purposefully application of Generative AI.

AI