Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

While you may be aware on a general level that your CRM platform is becoming a headwind to your organization achieving its fundraising goals, the prospect of migrating vast amounts of data, retraining staff, and committing the money and resources required for a successful upgrade can make it tempting to say, Lets make do for another year.

CRM

Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

By John Killoran Leaders across the nonprofit sector face a common challenge: striving to serve a growing community of beneficiaries with constrained budgets. Thats what makes mobile giving campaigns so successfulthese fundraisers make contributing convenient for donors. Evaluate your mobile fundraising logistics. The good news?

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

MAY 2, 2025

Provide leeway on reporting deadlines and requirements to give them a little breathing roomor forego applications altogether for recurring grantees. Fine-tune your fundraising efforts to ensure they resonate with supporters. Running budget scenarios early allows you to make informed choices and reduce surprises.

Government

Strategic Grants

JUNE 18, 2025

To avoid AI misuse when writing grant applications, here are some of our top tips for making sure AI is your helpful sidekick and not hindering your grant writing: 1. The prospective funder x seeks to support xyz and requires strong justification around budget. Remember, it will be a human evaluating your application!

AI

Candid

JUNE 5, 2025

Building a nonprofit budget can be intimidating, not only for new projects or organizations but for all nonprofits when the fundraising outlook is uncertain. Yet, a challenging environment makes developing a strong, credible budget even more important. Here’s how to get started: The basics of building a nonprofit budget.

Budget

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Researching Local Grant Opportunities Research forms the foundation of successful grant applications. Grant Application Process The grant application process generally involves several key steps. Submit the Application Ensure the application is submitted by the deadline. Keep copies of everything for your records.

Grants

Allied Grant Writers

MARCH 17, 2025

Traditionally, funding for these institutions has come from tithes, donations, and local fundraising efforts. Churches that invest in research and development for new programswhether in youth ministry, senior outreach, or interfaith dialogueoften rely on grants to test new ideas without overextending their regular budgets.

Funding

Grant Writer Team

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

That’s why thorough planning and budgeting are so important. In 2025, aligning fundraising efforts with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles is more vital than ever. Consultation Services: Professional assistance with the application can range from $1,000 to $3,000, depending on complexity.

Liability Insurance

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Unfortunately, your fundraising team is busy preparing for your organizations annual event, and it is all-hands-on-deck. You had a fundraising plan and office that was running pretty smoothly. A missed deadline may mean fundraising dollars that can never be recouped. Then, it changed.

Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Note from Diane: You know how passionate our team is about thinking about your grant management work (your post-award work) to help strengthen your grant applications (your pre-award) work. Many grantmakers request a proposed budget along with grant applications to show youre thinking about these goals from the start.

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

It can be easy to get caught up in writing a winning grant proposal without being picky about your applications. Your application explains that you have no experience in marketing, but you’re excited to provide advice regarding the organization’s financial activities. For example, is the funder asking for a detailed budget?

Proposal

GrantNews

JUNE 12, 2025

However, you don’t need a million-dollar budget to make a difference. Transparent Reports: Funding for Your Nonprofit Build trust with your team and supporters by providing a clear, realistic budget. Utilize budgeting tools to monitor spending patterns. In truth, every decision you make affects the impact of your group.

Funding

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Each structure offers unique advantages based on an organization’s needs and budget constraints. A nonprofit can make better budget decisions for grant writing services by knowing these payment models. Expert writers with over ten years of experience and many successful applications might charge up to $200 per hour.

Grants

GrantNews

JANUARY 2, 2025

Social fundraising is when a nonprofit showcases a social cause it is missioned to address. In truth, tracking metrics like donor retention, return per acquisition, and volunteer engagement helps teams increases productivity, optimize their marketing budget and more. Eligible applicants provide services or collaborate with schools.

AI

Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Grant writing is a critical component of nonprofit fundraising, but it often comes with its own set of challenges. Solution To manage time constraints effectively: Develop a Grant Calendar : Create a detailed calendar with deadlines, submission requirements, and timelines for each grant application. Budgeting and Financials 5.1

Grant Writing

Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 2, 2025

Without further ado, here are 7 Winning Tips to Write a Grant Proposal Tip #1: Understand Why Grant Writing is Effective As any seasoned nonprofit veteran knows, fundraising is what fuels everything else. Incorporating a consistent nonprofit grant seeking strategy into fundraising efforts promotes sustainability over time.

Grant Writing

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

How to Secure Sponsorships for Your School Fundraisers Blog Summary: School fundraisers are crucial for enhancing educational experiences. School fundraisers have always played a vital role in bringing communities together and supporting important educational initiatives.

Fundraising

GiveSmart

MARCH 20, 2025

With golf increasing in popularity, a charity golf outing is a smart fundraising event format for your organization to consider. Budget: Typical expenses for renting a golf course include booking fees, a green fee per participating golfer, catering, snacks, beverages, golf cart rentals, and, sometimes, a st affing fee. Read more here.

Fundraising

GrantNews

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Above all, donations and grants work together to provide vital funding to ensure a nonprofit’s budget is sustainable. Support to USA Nonprofits to Improve Fundraising Capacity – This grant provides a technological upgrade for a donor management system, thus enhancing fundraising and donor management capabilities.

Education

Blackbaud

JANUARY 24, 2025

Is your nonprofit or school getting the most from its fundraising CRM? See campaign performance, donor and gift details, and fundraising event performance in your CRM. You can then easily follow up with them afterward, include them in email campaigns, or see how your events are helping your fundraising efforts.

CRM

GrantNews

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The database currently boasted over 9,400 grants currently accepting applications, easy-to-read access to 3,515,253 IRS 990 reports of 325,123 funders, 641,345 grant recipients, and 9,873,291 funded grants, all totaling $925 billion. Foundations are funded through donations, wills, bequests, fundraising, earned income, and memberships.

Funding

Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

Smaller shares of grantmakers providing technology and tools, unrestricted funding The good news is that a significant majority of funders are now committed to streamlining grant applications (67%) and reporting processes (56%). With small budgets come small staffs juggling multiple priorities.

Funding

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 27, 2025

The real promise of artificial intelligence — particularly agentic AI — is not just efficiency, but the removal of barriers that slow down fundraising, service delivery and impact measurement. Identifying More Potential Grant Applications The grant process is both time-consuming and critical for nonprofit leaders.

AI

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Nonprofit Support Centers Local organizations that provide resources and support for fundraising efforts. Applying for Grants Submitting a grant application can be complex. Complete Application Forms : Ensure that all required forms are filled out correctly, supplying accurate data to support the proposal. Clarity is key.

Funding

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

Yet, as fundraisers, we all too often forget to spend the time to make our thank yous count. 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. This experience demonstrated just one of many donor recognition examples.

CRM

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofit Grant Proposal Budget Calculations: A Road Map Whats the best way to make your nonprofits budget stand out on a grant application? A nonprofits budget reflects much more than just the financial health of an organization it also shows your deepest priorities.

Budget

Just Write Grants

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Build Relationships with Corporate Decision-Makers Corporate grants often stem from strong relationships rather than cold applications. Offering volunteer opportunities, corporate matching gift programs, or employee-driven fundraising campaigns can strengthen your partnership.

Grants

DoJiggy

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Step 3: Create a Business Plan and Budget You’ll need to develop a business plan to start an animal rescue. Detail fundraising strategies and potential revenue sources. Our 100+ fundraising ideas might inspire you. Next, youll submit the 501(c)(3) tax exemption application to the IRS.

Policies

Blackbaud

APRIL 21, 2025

An RFP is a formal document that outlines your organizations needs, expectations, budget, and selection criteria when hiring vendors or consultants for a task. You need expert guidance on financial management to achieve accurate and compliant financial records, improve financial reporting, and tighten your budget.

Proposal

Grant Writer Team

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Because of this, outlining your mission will attract volunteers, and donors along with proving legitimacy and credibility to grant application reviewers. A nonprofit can then redistribute funds budgeted for a costly website to pay for operation costs like salaries and more.

Nonprofit

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Elevate your proposals using refreshed templates, updated data insights, and a stronger commitment to equity, ensuring your applications stand out in a crowded grant space. Include milestones for internal review, feedback, budget revisions, and final polishing. Build in buffer time Don’t rush an excellent proposal at the last minute.

Grants

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Its hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

Some funders are experimenting with AI to pre-screen applications based on clarity and alignment. Clarify what AI can draft (like boilerplate sections or budget rationales) and what must stay human-led (like personal stories or your theory of change). AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and Notion are now standard in nonprofit offices.

Grants

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

FDO also lets users filter potential funders down to the Congressional District level and sometimes has actual grant application questions. Alliance members often announce open calls for applications or nominations. Foundations usually list their goals clearly in application calls or on their websites.

Grants

Blackbaud

APRIL 22, 2025

But between fundraising, engaging volunteers , and delivering services to your community, dedicated recruitment efforts can fall by the wayside. Both types of organizations should leverage people-first recruitment software to improve the experience both for staff and applicants. Focus on skills and experience. Connection to the cause.

Nonprofit

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

‍ By the end of this Instrumentl Partner Webinar, you’ll be able to learn: ​The most common reasons grants are rejected - from obvious to not-so-obvious ​Solutions to help you fix each of those ​Ways Instrumentl can support you to help recognize and avoid the most common grant application mistakes Never tried Instrumentl?

Instrumentl

Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

Nonprofit organizations hold a variety of events, from fundraising galas to auctions to community outreach programs. That’s where fundraising event management software for nonprofits can help. We considered their features and functionality, positive ratings and reviews, and application to the nonprofit world.

Software