CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As fundraisers, you’re also in charge of putting together end-of-year giving campaigns for your nonprofit. Aside from the normal holiday hullabaloo, you’re also busy planning fundraisers and engagement opportunities to round out your organization’s calendar year. Early preparation is key in ensuring a successful campaign.

Goals

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2025

Explore top event ideas to strengthen relationships between donors and beneficiaries, enhance engagement, and maximize fundraising success for your nonprofit. By Jen Wemhoff Nonprofit fundraising is about more than just dollars—it’s about connections. A potluck or BBQ can feel more like a family reunion than a fundraising event.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

This article breaks the grant lifecycle into two main phases: the pre-award phase and the post-award phase. Knowing how to identify fitting grants and prepare competitive applications raises your chances of winning awards. Why Understanding the Grant Lifecycle Matters The grant lifecycle is more than just a sequence of steps.

Grants

CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

A golf tournament fundraiser is not only a fantastic day out but also a powerful fundraising event that can drive significant donations, strengthen community connections, and build long-lasting partnerships with local businesses. Download the Free Complete Guide to Nonprofit Fundraising Events : 1.

Fundraising

GrantNews

JUNE 25, 2025

Understanding the average size of nonprofit grants is crucial for organizations planning their fundraising strategies. Medium to Large Grants: Grants between $50,000 and $200,000 account for about 25-30% of funding awards, often targeting nonprofits with larger operational scopes or multi-year projects.

Grants

Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Every day, nonprofit fundraisers use our in-depth data to identify prospective funders to approach and requests for proposals (RFPs) to apply for. This translates into a personalized grants prospecting experience designed to meet fundraisers unique funding needs.

AI

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 13, 2025

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Funding

NonProfit PRO

JULY 30, 2025

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Retail

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

If you havent already, now is the time to evaluate your organizations grant readiness from pre- to post-award, ensuring alignment with funders, competitive proposals, and strong fund stewardship. Start by Asking the Right Questions: What is the current pre-award process? What is the current post-award process?

Grants

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Does your nonprofit want to increase engagement with your marketing and fundraising efforts? This guide explores tips to increase both marketing and fundraising qualified lead generation. On the other hand, fundraising-qualified leads have been closely involved with your organization and demonstrated their interest in donating.

Nonprofit

DoJiggy

JULY 8, 2025

Successful fundraising isn’t just about having a good cause—it’s about motivating your supporters to get involved, stay engaged, and go the extra mile. One of the most effective strategies for boosting participation and donations is offering incentives for fundraisers. The element of surprise can be a big motivator.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

Searching a funder’s Form 990 can reveal how much money they awarded in grants and the purpose of awarding this funding. Consider this cost in light of your other fundraising campaigns , too. To calculate this, divide the total number of applicants by the number of awards made for the last funding cycle.

Proposal

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 21, 2025

Danny Blitch, MPA, GPC , from Woodstock, Georgia, is the Managing Consultant of Federal Grants at Alloy Fundraising in Atlanta. Danny received the 2022 Grant Professionals Distinguished Fellow Award for his commitment, achievements, and lasting impact on the grants profession.

Grant Writing

GiveSmart

JANUARY 23, 2025

There are pockets of opportunity to better engage donors, invest in technology, and better strategize fundraising efforts. What can you and your team expect in the fundraising event, donor relationship, and nonprofit marketing landscapes? However, its important to remember: AI is not a replacement for a qualified fundraiser.

Fundraising

Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By personalizing your donation letters, your nonprofit can increase fundraising revenue and develop long-lasting supporter relationships. These letters are particularly impactful during nonprofit giving days like GivingTuesday and targeted fundraising campaigns, providing a personal touch that can resonate with recipients.

Template

Candid

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Success and wellness tips for Black fundraisers. According to Candids 2023 survey, 90% of respondents awarded unrestricted funding in 2021 and 2022, allocating about 30% of overall grant dollars to GOSbut definitions of GOS and ways of tracking varied greatly by foundation. What do we know about recent trends in unrestricted funding?

Burnout

GiveSmart

MARCH 20, 2025

With golf increasing in popularity, a charity golf outing is a smart fundraising event format for your organization to consider. Invites and promotion: Set up a dedicated golf fundraising event page where participants can register. Ticket/tournament type: There are a handful of golf fundraiser formats to select for your tournament.

Fundraising

Candid

JUNE 9, 2025

Foundations award billions of dollars in grants across the United States each year. The dashboards’ maps and graphs show grant dollars from two complementary perspectives: funding awarded to nonprofits in each state, and funding awarded by private and community foundations based in each state.

Funding

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Are there shifts in how grants are being awarded? Stay Informed About Funding Trends Keep an eye on funding trends in your sector. Are there new priorities emerging among funders? Understanding these trends can help you tailor your approach and stay ahead of the curve. Prepare Your Team Grant success is a team effort.

Grants

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. Its why we partner with MyFedTrainer.com to deliver grant writing supports and training on both the pre-award and post-award side of things.

Finance

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. That’s where this guide comes in—we’ll discuss the must-have members of your nonprofit’s fundraising team.

Fundraising

Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Mobile Giving Campaigns The future of fundraising is mobile, with a growing number of donors using their smartphones to find new nonprofits, complete transactions, and tell their friends about their experiences. Thats what makes mobile giving campaigns so successfulthese fundraisers make contributing convenient for donors.

Nonprofit

Allied Grant Writers

MARCH 17, 2025

Traditionally, funding for these institutions has come from tithes, donations, and local fundraising efforts. Federal Grants : These grants may be awarded through government agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), or the Department of Education.

Funding

Candid

JANUARY 27, 2025

They take into account the longer time horizon needed to effect meaningful change, so nonprofits can dedicate less effort toward fundraising and focus more on accomplishing their missions. Two-thirds of surveyed foundations (67%) awarded at least one multiyear grant in FYE 2022, including 15% that awarded more than 50.

Funding

Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A well-established relationship can significantly increase your odds of being awarded a grant. If relevant (and appropriate), invite representatives of the funder to participate in your organization’s events, such as open houses, community gatherings, and award ceremonies. You can find other blog posts in this series here.

GPC

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

But if they get a call within 24 hours from a real person — you, the frontline fundraiser — thanking them by name and connecting their gift to the impact it will make, you’re telling them something different entirely: “You matter. This is relationship fundraising, and relationships thrive on connection.

Retail

NonProfit PRO

JULY 10, 2025

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Retail

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Peer-to-peer fundraising—individuals raising money for a cause with the help of their family and friends—is a fun, easy, and lucrative strategy to attract awareness and generate funds for your cause. Studies have shown that: Peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives average 39% success, compared to 22% for traditional fundraising.

Fundraising

GrantNews

JANUARY 31, 2025

In 2025, aligning fundraising efforts with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles is more vital than ever. Awards will be given for books written in English and in French. Applications are encouraged for long-term and short-term editorial projects, as well as projects that are at the planning stage.

Grants

GiveSmart

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Charity golf outings are a popular fundraiser for many nonprofits and associations. Fun Games for Golf Outing Fundraisers Most organizations have added mulligans, hole in one contests, or longest drives to their golf outings. Ensuring your guests have a memorable experience can positively impact fundraising.

Award

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 1, 2025

To distinguish this from a project-restricted request, the proposal makes it clear that the organization is requesting unrestricted funding to support its greatest needs of the program or project at the time of the award. Specificity is critical.

Funding

Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 14, 2025

Do you think your donors would rather read an article about your CEO receiving an award or one about Tina, a single mother who is having trouble making ends meet but is grateful because, thanks to your generous donors, she can get healthy food for her family at the Westside Community food pantry?

Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 16, 2025

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AI

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Whether you’re a fundraising pro or completely new to the process, choosing the activity you center your fundraiser around can be a real challenge. Here at Auctria and Get Fully Funded, we’ve been inspired by tournaments as a fundraiser activity lately! Pickleball is fundraising gold for your organization.

Fundraising

GiveSmart

JANUARY 21, 2025

Collecting silent auction items for your next fundraiser takes a lot of consideration you need to know where to begin, fight donor fatigue, and think of fresh items. Fan Paddles $ Do you have candidates, table captains, award nominees, teachers, researchers, or sponsors that you can put on fan paddles?

Donation

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 19, 2025

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AI

NonProfit PRO

JULY 9, 2025

Golden’s globally-awarded and category-defining mobile app turns volunteers into donors. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. window.dfp_npp_interstitial = googletag.defineSlot("/124057991/npp_interstitial", [[640,480]], "napco-ad-npp_interstitial").addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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