Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Each year the International Computer Refurbishers Summit awards a lifetime achievement award. This year the award went to Nancy Jo Craig who runs the nonprofit Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has also just published a book of poetry, “ On The Advice of Rumi.”

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Life for grants professionals managing post-award details can be made easier with the following practices. 5 Tips to Help Line Up Your Ducks Read the Management Documents Most governmental grants will have some sort of manual or guidance published and available to award recipients. Communication and coordination are key.

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 5, 2023

Agency Name: Department of Education Description: Please note that the information provided in each funding opportunity description is a summary of the details found in the official application notice published in the Federal Register. The official version of the document is the one published in the Federal Register.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

For the past 26 years, she has contributed organizational and individual value as a thought leader, manager, author, mentor, coach and consultant throughout the United States, and in selected projects in Africa and Central America. Request a Demo of Qgiv’s Award-Winning Fundraising Platform. We’re Losing the “Marchers”.

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Library Grants

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This program creates a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all states and U.S. The maximum award amount is $325,000 with an estimate of ten awards. Prior recipients may apply for subsequent NDNP awards to further newspaper digitization efforts.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Their findings were published in the Fall 2020 Journal of the Grant Professionals Association, showing a gap in available information as well as initial research indicating more than three in four grant professionals experience physical symptoms, socio-emotional symptoms, or both, of burnout. However, sometimes it is a great fit.

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iGrantWriters

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Publish articles on relevant industry blogs, keep up with news on new developments, lead webinars on new federal or state initiatives that affect grant writers, or present at conferences and meetings sponsored by reputable organizations like the National Council of Nonprofits. Develop workshops and presentations to share your expertise.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

Education organizations, both institutions and those organizations focused on education, comprise a little over 15% of nonprofit organizations in the United States and represented over 13% of participants in the State of Grantseeking survey published by GrantStation and PhilanTech in November 2011. What is going on here?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Community Improvement and Capacity Building: Fewer Grant Awards. of survey participants cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011 by GrantStation and PhilanTech). As always, if you use staff time to try to secure grant awards, staff have to leave behind their daily duties.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Budgets include the personnel required for a grant project (consultants, percentage of salary and benefits for existing staff, etc.) Project Budget.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Teespring offers consultation services to help organizations with shirt design, marketing strategy, and account management. I have updated Stephanie’s pieces a bit.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

Several published articles, like this humerous classic by Vu Le , illustrate grant practices that do more harm than good. It can be uncomfortable to commit to a timeline, line-item budget, or project plan, but your grant professional is asking for these because organizations that include details are more likely to win awards.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 24, 2024

If you want to explore new areas of the grants profession, such as grant management, you may do a quick read of the Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards (just kidding, there is nothing quick about this!). The Post Award Grant Management and Compliance pathway is available now, with more in development.

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GrantNews

MAY 6, 2024

The first published photograph of a UFO was taken in Seattle, Washington after Frank Ryman took a picture of a flying saucer from his front yard in 1947. Applicants must consult with program staff prior to submitting an application. The first Starbucks opened in Seattle on March 30, 1971.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Funders have a limited amount of dollars to award and, therefore, want to fund effective projects. Drafting the Evaluation Budget Your first step in drafting an evaluation budget is to consult with finance staff and program staff. document transfer, accuracy in post-award fiscal and activity reporting).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2012

Despite many challenges, nonprofits retain a sense of optimism about the next six months according to the survey results cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011). And it gets particularly interesting when you start looking at the responses from arts, culture, and humanities groups. What does that mean?

Grantstation

Peak Proposals

JANUARY 28, 2021

While some databases focus exclusively on a subset of funders, such as private foundations, many databases include entries for all types of funders and award mechanisms, from traditional grants to prizes for innovative ideas to in-kind donations. current or past grantees), or by sponsor/grantmaker. Screenshot of GrantForward’s landing page.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. The Non-profit Consultant. Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

Of every philanthropic dollar awarded, it is estimated that only 6 cents goes towards racial equity work and a single cent towards racial justice work. The awarded funds are a drop in the bucket, given that “ less than 1% of venture capital funding goes to businesses owned by Black and Hispanic women.”

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Additionally, not all foundations that award external grants actually accept applications; instead, they rely on an “invitation-only” model to identify the organizations they will fund. With grants, foundations publish the solicitations, which are the requests for grant applications. Emails like this are unlikely to be successful.

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Peak Proposals

AUGUST 1, 2023

If the solicitation directs applicants to submit any questions by a specific date, this almost always means that the funder will publish the questions received—often verbatim—along with the answers. Personnel Questions Is it allowable to bid consultants for the key positions? Is it allowable to put “TBD’ for some positions?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2015

This year Netsquared's own Eli van der Giessen, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Regina Walton won NTENny awards, as well as Lauren Girardin and our beloved colleague, Michael DeLong, who passed away this past year. What Are the NTENny Awards Again? Lauren Girardin runs Lauren Girardin Consulting and is a communications consultant dynamo.

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