Qgiv

JUNE 24, 2021

We’re excited to share that Qgiv has been named a Silver winner for “Hot Company of the Year” in the 16th Annual 2021 IT World Awards® ! We are proud to be recognized as an industry player whose fundraising software has been named a winner by the Globee Awards,” said Todd Baylis, president and co-founder of Qgiv, Inc.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 6, 2025

Early in my fundraising career, my then boss gave me a great piece of advice to celebrate wins. Start at the beginning You do want to calculate the amount of revenue raised, but it is useful to tally the total number of grants submitted, awarded, declined, and pending, to arrive at an overall win rate. Calculate, calculate, calculate!

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GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GiveSmart has been recognized by the 2023 TrustRadius Awards as a Best of product in the Feature Set , Relationship , and Value for Price categories. The TrustRadius Best of Awards is a leading award program spotlighting the best in B2B technology products. In 2023, our customers have already raised over $1.5

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 13, 2025

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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.

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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.

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, responsibly managing grants after the award is just as critical. Did you know that if a grant is not managed correctly after being awarded, your organization can be forced to repay the funds? This article discusses what grant management is and the risks of mismanaging awarded grants. The GrantWatch team is here to help.

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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.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The best fundraising appeals were highlighted last night during the 2024 MAXI Awards hosted by the Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DMAW) with four agencies talking 16 of the 51 prizes. Newport One took six MAXIs while Lautman Maska Neill & Company, The Harrington Agency and K2D each took five awards.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 31, 2021

Woven Health Clinic began their year planning an in-person fundraising luncheon, but quickly realized that in-person needed to become virtual. Board members would sell tickets and fill tables to help make the fundraiser a success. Raising More With Less Effort With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising On CauseVox. Enter CauseVox.

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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.

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Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2024

In addition to risk, federal government agencies are asking applicants/recipients to demonstrate their ability to manage federal grants through a robust internal controls policy and procedures manual (sometimes during the pre-award stage) that outlines how organizations will be good stewards of government funding.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Here’s why the 12-month mark may not be the best time to measure the effectiveness of your grant writing fundraising strategy. For many foundations, this timeline includes not only the application submission and review but also a multi-month award decision period.

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Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 30, 2025

Meet your fundraising goals for 2025! Research shows that in 2025, aligning fundraising efforts with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles is increasing in popularity. When volunteers are involved, they feel connected to the cause and are more likely to donate or fundraise for the cause.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We’re excited to share that Qgiv has been named a Gold winner for “Customer Service Department of the Year” and Bronze winner for “Best Technology to Combat and Reduce the Impacts of COVID-19” in the 13th Annual 2021 Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards ! Read the Press Release.

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Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 16, 2023

One of the questions I get most often is: " Is it okay to pay a grant writer a percentage of the grant award?" Industry best practices (as well as the guidelines for several nonprofit professional organizations) do not allow grant writers to be compensated with a percentage or commission of a grant award. The short answer is "no."

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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.

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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.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Kristi Nelson, chief philanthropy officer at Childhaven, embodies all of this, and as a result was named the recipient of NonProfit PRO’s 2023 Fundraiser of the Year Award. It takes a lot of time, effort and dedication to lead an organization through difficult times and toward a greater future.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Leah Garrett, VP of development and communications for Community of Hope, has mastered fundraising and communications to improve health, end family homelessness, and make Washington, D.C., Her accomplishments have earned her NonProfit PRO’s 2022 Fundraiser of the Year Award. more equitable.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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GrantNews

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Foundations are funded through donations, wills, bequests, fundraising, earned income, and memberships. Exemplary Academics in Sci entific Fields : Grants and awards to nonprofit organizations and IHEs for activities that further the professional advancement of researchers and educators in scientific fields.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Pivoting To A Virtual Awards Ceremony.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 28, 2025

Tailor Scholarship Awards to Enrollment Targets To effectively attract prospective students and drive enrollment , institutions must align scholarship awards with their overarching enrollment goals. Developing a cohesive system makes awarding faster, easier, and more focused on student needs with everyone working toward the same goals.

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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?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 28, 2022

You can’t plan out your nonprofit’s impact this year without projecting your fundraising revenue. In fact, you must plan your programs first so you know what your fundraising goal is. 3 Rules for Projecting Fundraising Revenue. 3 Steps to Projecting Fundraising Revenue for Your Annual Plan . The two are tied together.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 6, 2022

Multiple Enhancements to Qgiv’s Fundraising Tools: Throughout the year during the company’s bi-weekly production cycle, Qgiv added over 300 enhancements to increase client success, many of which were directly driven by client requests and feedback. Click the link below to read our full year in review press release.

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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.

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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?

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Qgiv

MAY 4, 2021

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass had to find a socially distant alternative to their annual Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser. This event encouraged the creation of small teams to fundraise leading up to the event and then participate in the scavenger hunt the day of. Ultimately, your focus should be on fundraising.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 25, 2023

Whether you’re planning a 5k fundraiser , dance-a-thon, or social media campaign, you know a lot goes into preparing for a peer-to-peer fundraising initiative. But one of the most challenging aspects of peer-to-peer event planning is recruiting supporters who will act as volunteer fundraisers. Make it easy to join your campaign.

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Grant Writer Team

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A well-written, award-winning grant proposal illustrates why a cause is qualified for funding. However, a key element in award-winning grant writing is, you guessed it, passion. By researching the history of awarded grants a grant writer can locate critical elements. However, bear this in mind.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Shiree Skinner of New Futures was named NonProfit PRO's Fundraiser of the Year, reflecting her leadership in the nonprofit sector.

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