Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Each revenue diversification strategy mentioned in this article offers unique benefits. For example, a grant agency might be helpful when applying for the Google Ad Grant, especially if your nonprofit has never participated in the program or created a Google Ad.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

In this article, we break down the most prominent 2025 grant trends and show you how to future-proof your strategy, so you’re not just reacting, but adapting with confidence. Use them to accelerate brainstorming or formatting, but always maintain a human tone and ethical guardrails. 5 Key Nonprofit Grant Trends Reshaping 2025 1.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

While the digital divide poses a significant challenge, the ethical implications of AI present another critical concern for the nonprofit sector. When I was assigned this article, I opened up a shared document to more than 200 of my colleagues. This gap will not be evenly distributed. GenAI allowed me to parse their input.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 24, 2025

Typically, grant professionals learn on the job through trial and error, plus there are vast numbers of classes, webinars, and articles to read on writing grants. However, designation certifications go further in requiring ongoing continuing education and adherence to a professional code of ethics. There is no degree in grant writing.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JUNE 19, 2025

This article presents insights from over 1700 participants worldwide regarding their recent performance, prevailing challenges, current fundraising strategies and opportunities, data health, and attitudes and usage of artificial intelligence (AI).

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DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This article compares four recognized charity watchdogs: Candid (formerly GuideStar), Charity Navigator, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and GreatNonprofits. Despite being grouped under the same umbrella, these watchdogs have distinct missions, operate differently, and can impact your ability to raise necessary funds in various ways.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In this article , we cover these services and explore their benefits the foundation for the elderly does. To obtain this certification, candidates must pass a comprehensive exam within a year of application and complete an ethics module, ensuring they adhere to the highest ethical standards.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 24, 2025

Accessibility Screen reader support, alt text, high-contrast design and simple navigation aren’t just ethical priorities – they now directly impact your site’s SEO. WildApricot’s mobile-friendly templates and drag-and-drop website editor make it easy to build a site that looks great on any device.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

MAY 18, 2025

The Wall Street Journal recently published this article: “America’s Richest Foundations Team Up Against Feared Trump Assault” The article highlights these three key points: Wealthy U.S. So, what is the point of this article, which seems to be a scare-piece about a non-existent issue? Nuff said on this one.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

But asking someone, especially someone who is already in a vulnerable situation, to share what is typically a deeply personal and sensitive story can create a host of ethical dilemmas. Ethical and empowering storytelling is also BETTER and more effective storytelling for fundraising! There’s even scientific research to back this up!

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Critical Fundraising

JULY 10, 2024

So, you’re using AI ‘responsibly’, but, asks Cherian Koshy , are you using it ethically? I use that word – ‘ethical’ – intentionally and with priority. Far too often, we dispense with ethics because it seems too obscure or fluffy. Ethical challenges don’t disappear via semantic legerdemain.

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Elevate

JANUARY 6, 2025

Welcome back to our two-part blog series on Ethical Storytelling, which kicked off last fall with a blog providing an introduction to the topic. Whereas that article provided some background and definitions (the what and the why), this one delves more into the how of ethical storytelling by providing examples from two Elevate partners.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Welcome to the continuation of the October Ethics Month article series! We are diving deeper into the GPA Code of Ethics this week, focusing on the “Professional Obligations” section. It is your professional obligation to recognize and acknowledge your limitations (GPA Code of Ethics 7).

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The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 21, 2023

Today’s guest post on ethical nonprofit storytelling is from Caliopy Glaros. Caliopy is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Philanthropy Without Borders, a firm with expertise in ethical storytelling, donor engagement, and strategic planning. This article was originally published on her blog.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Hundreds of ENGAGE articles have been written by outstanding leaders and subject matter experts across the social good community in 2023. Check out the articles below to see what our community has been most interested in this year. The post The 10 Most Popular ENGAGE Articles in 2023 first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Preparing to write this article gave me an opportunity to reach out to other grant writers to glean from their experience. Ethics in the grant world can be subjective. We need to consistently return to GPA’s guidance and resources to assist us with ethical judgement calls. Here are two scenarios for your consideration: 1.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In the wake of the October Ethics Month articles, you are all now experts on the GPA code of ethics! You read every article and are ready to take on any situation, no matter how sticky…right? Even with an irrefutable command of grant writing the GPA Code of Ethics , you will encounter situations that give you pause.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I've had many careers over the past 30+ years and in all of them, the companies and professions have defined codes of ethics. But even with these guidelines that all employees had to agree to, I've encountered quite a few situations where I've been asked to do something I thought was questionable from an ethical or moral standpoint.

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Critical Fundraising

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Explores how the ‘traditional charity model’ is disintermediated by individuals, companies and other types of charity Each type of disintermediation raises its own ethical and regulatory issues, which have barely begun to be addressed Disintermediated giving is a lot more than just donating via crowdfunding platforms.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

In this article, we unpack the lessons learned from a nonprofit’s chatbot project to dispense mental health advice that went wrong, and how nonprofits can reduce the risks when adopting ChatGPT and other generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies. There are a lot of decisions to be made in order to use ChatGPT responsibly.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Despite the changing landscape, the code of ethics remains our north star, guiding us with principle and in practice. Together, we will build and create once more with the Code of Ethics and our integrity in tow. Question: As a grant professional how can the code of ethics guide you during times of change?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This is a guest article written by Utopia Experience. Preventing pollution, reducing water use, cutting carbon emissions, etc.These are all important, good things, but in this article we want to unpack one of the often overlooked elements of sustainability: social sustainability. A business that damages the environment, or puts profit.

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Gail Perry Group

MAY 23, 2024

BOTTOM LINE: By ethically using AI, we can free up time and energy to focus on what matters most – those personal conversations and building lasting connections with our donors. Remember to bookmark this article. Remember the old motto: Find Seven Ways To Thank Your Donor and They Will Give Again!

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2014

This Data For Good Flipboard Magazine from TechSoup Global will curate the latest news and articles related to data, philanthropy and the wider social good. It will look at the ethics behind the use of such data by the sector. Follow the “Data for Good” magazine to stay up to date on data news related to you!

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

In this article, we’ll dive into how you can leverage the power of AI to take your nonprofit game to the next level. It can generate fundraising emails , social media posts, and blog articles, all on the fly. However, it also presents several challenges and ethical considerations that must be taken into account.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

In other words, when you enter a prompt, ChatGPT scours vast amounts of text data online (such as books, websites, articles, etc.) To learn how you can leverage the power of ChatGPT to run a peer-to-peer campaign, check out this article. Ethics of ChatGPT Usage As you can see from these examples, ChatGPT is a powerful tool.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This article dives into how mastering ethics, collaboration, grant research, strategic planning, building relationships, and prospecting for foundations can be a game-changer in your professional life. Are you ready to elevate your professional journey and significantly impact your field?

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Critical Fundraising

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought. Why do we talk about ‘ethical fundraising’ as if unethical fundraising were the norm? Who was the original ‘poster child’?

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Gail Perry Group

MAY 23, 2024

BOTTOM LINE: By ethically using AI, we can free up time and energy to focus on what matters most – those personal conversations and building lasting connections with our donors. Remember to bookmark this article for later. Remember the old motto: Find Seven Ways To Thank Your Donor and They Will Give Again!

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 27, 2024

But for the purpose of this article, discussion focuses on AI broadly, beyond generative AI, which represents only a fraction of artificial intelligence’s capabilities. Nonprofits must take care to put accountability practices in place to use AI in ways that help reduce bias and uphold ethical considerations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Information is what we feed our brains, so we should consume healthy, fresh, local, organic information, and be concerned with ethical sourcing. This article has a good overview of how current companies are making use of new data technology trends. That's why I call myself the Information Chef.

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Critical Fundraising

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought. So, asks Ian MacQuillin , what does this mean for the ethics of asking for donation for ‘less effective’ causes?

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Sharpshooter Communications

AUGUST 2, 2020

Our internal practices will follow all laws, professional ethical standards and company policy, be produced accurately and be completed on time. For Sharpshooter, we build upon that to include creativity, ethics and reflecting the clients' brand. What I love about this value is that we are very clear that we are not God.

Grant Writing

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 3, 2024

Read this article to see more Millionaire Grant Lady wins from last year. AI has no ethical basis for considering the writing it scans or for considering the writing it creates. Check out this article for more tips on how to write an effective grant.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2024

The Imperative: Listen and Learn As grant professionals, we’re inundated by articles, webinars, and marketing messages about AI’s role in prospect research and analysis, proposal and report writing, and more. Ask yourself, “Is it accurate, current, inclusive, unbiased, ethical? Critically review and challenge AI’s output.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What advantages and disadvantages do you feel you have as a worker because of your time in academia (in terms of skill set, work ethic, expectations, etc.)? What advantages and disadvantages do you feel you have as a worker because of your time in academia (in terms of skill set, work ethic, expectations, etc.)?

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 26, 2024

There has been a ton of discussion and articles written about how to successfully build, retain, and engage onsite, remote, and hybrid workers. The question then becomes, how can we positively influence and further support wellbeing in the workplace through our employee engagement and philanthropy programs?

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