Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Once you understand what’s required for a successful auction—one that meets or exceeds its revenue goal—you can confidently set your procurement goals and define your event budget. Know your audience and tailor your auction items procurement to fit their interests and budget. Every calculation stems from this key number.

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Grant Training Center

AUGUST 21, 2023

Project Management Abilities: Grant writing often entails creating project plans, budgets, and timelines. Financial Literacy: Grant writers often work on budget development and financial projections. This financial literacy is relevant to jobs in finance, accounting, and budget management.

Grant Writing

Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In this blog, we’ll cover some of the best ways to bring in more donations to your auctions—practices that you can use over and over again, without having to reinvent the wheel. Cater to different budgets: Not all attendees may have the financial means to bid on high-end items.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2023

This blog will provide you with an understanding of how Google Ad Grants work and outline how your organization can participate in the program to draw attention to your mission-driven work online. To set your nonprofit up to obtain $10,000 per month in free advertising budget, simply follow these three initial steps.

Grants

Greater Giving

JUNE 18, 2024

The logistics person needs to take a high level view: Generates the budget. Behind-the-Scenes Heroes Procurement Powerhouse In order to hold a successful auction, you need a stock of highly prized items. This team: Holds a procurement brainstorming party to identify items to target for donation. Appoints committee chairs.

Fundraising

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs. There are three primary factors that influence the evaluation budget: program, evaluation design, and reporting/dissemination.

Budget

Blackbaud

AUGUST 20, 2024

There are several exciting times of the year for nonprofit finance professionals—budget season, audits, year-end close. From required statements of financial position and budgets to dashboards that compare your revenue streams over time, you often share your financial stories through your reports.

Finance

Grant Training Center

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Today, winning bids is especially challenging given changing priorities, limited time and resources, and constrained budgets. The post The Development of Competitive Bids is an Art and Science appeared first on Grant Training Center Blog.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 23, 2024

What are your procurement standards? The post How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. Here are some questions you can ask potential grantees, either as part of the application or as a follow-up conversation: Who at your organization can approve grant spending?

Grants

Greater Giving

AUGUST 30, 2024

Review your planning materials, budget, marketing collateral, attendance data, event photos, and any other documentation you have. The post How to Craft a Post-Event Case Study appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. Compiling a financial report for the event is crucial, but it’s just the beginning.

Metrics

Grant Training Center

AUGUST 10, 2020

Universally, an institution that succeeds in its external funding efforts is one that develops a culture for grant procurement. In addition, the orientation for all newly entering faculty should stress the importance of research, grant procurement and the assistance that the university provides in those respects.

Funding

Greater Giving

MAY 17, 2024

These are the folks who are great candidates to help you procure top-notch auction items for your event, or even donate to be part of the experience (dinner wine, tasting bar, gifts, etc.) Tips for Successful Wine Procurement Start early! The post Uncorking the Success to Fundraising with Wine appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Determine Your Fundraising Goal and Budget Set clear fundraising goal s to motivate participants, sponsors, and donors. Outline a budget that includes the venue, food, decor, and any prizes or trophies. For more ideas on how to procure items download our procurement guide.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 14, 2023

The grant proposal and its many components, such as the workplan, objectives, evaluation metrics, and budget, will serve as the blueprint for measuring post-award progress and set important perimeters for project completion. Here are some initial steps and best practices to help ensure project feasibility.

Federal Grants

Greater Giving

JULY 13, 2022

You want the auction to be successful, but you don’t have the budget or staff time to track down all the donations yourself. That’s where auction procurement comes in. Auction procurement is a process of finding donors who can give you items at no cost in exchange for publicity and recognition at your event.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) adopted the NAICS system to compare business statistics among North American countries. Government agencies use NAICS codes to classify procurement documents and reach out to potential vendors that are aligned with their needs. Census Bureau, 2024).

GPCI

Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

To run a silent auction , you’ll need to plan many logistical pieces and discuss different considerations, such as how guests will bid on items, what the items you’re procuring are, and how you’ll process donations. Determining the auction budget. Procure auction items. If this seems like a tall order, don’t fret!

Fundraising

Greater Giving

JULY 2, 2024

Gazala Uradnik, founder of GFS Events , joined us to talk about event budgeting, revenue producers, and how to make the most of each of your revenue channels. Analyze your budget You’re looking for the highest return on investment with your expenses, which might mean making changes you haven’t considered before to bring in a higher ROI.

IT

Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2021

You can also download these sponsorship letter templates to add to your fundraising arsenal at the end of this blog. Through this partnership, we hope to help [Company Name] make the most of your corporate philanthropy budget while ensuring your employees maximize the impact of their gifts to our cause. Sponsorship Letter for Sports.

Template

Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Before you dive into soliciting silent auction item donations, set up your procurement goals. Setting A Silent Auction Item Budget NOTE: Items typically sell for 60% of the total item value, so once you’ve created your budget and fundraising goal, calculate what total item value you’ll need to solicit in order to reach those goals.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

This includes everything from budget to venue, guest list to guest RSVPs (responses). Auction Procurement Committee. Here are just some of the roles and responsibilities that need to be delegated to members of the auction committee: Generating leads for item procurement. Planning and Logistics Committee.

Procurement

Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By receiving goods and services without the associated monetary cost, nonprofits can allocate their budget more effectively, directing funds towards critical programs and initiatives. Crafting an Irresistible Auction Securing High-Value Items Reach out to local businesses and community members to procure high-value items for your auction.

Donation

Greater Giving

MAY 9, 2024

Assign one person to decor and give them a budget. Solicitation Committee Recruit volunteers for your auction item solicitation or procurement committee who are willing to go out and talk to people in the community and solicit donations. Then, have one last meeting a month before the event for final touches.

Fundraising

Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

Grant Management Considerations Understanding and following tracking procedures for outcomes, time and effort, and procurement are key to maintaining ethical practices when preparing an application and managing grant funds. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

Ethics

Greater Giving

JUNE 23, 2022

Check out our blog post on job descriptions, committee roles, and why it’s so important to know what you need before you begin recruiting: Making Sure Your Committees Are Locked Before Recruiting. Limit permissions so procurement volunteers can enter donated items, but not risk interference with any other area of event planning.

Fundraising

DoJiggy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore what a wine pull fundraiser is, offer seven simple steps to plan one, and provide some great ideas to enhance the success of your wine fundraising event. Wine Pull Instructions for Dummies Here are the basic steps to planning a wine draw fundraiser: Procure a grouping of wines through donations or purchases.

Fundraising

Fundly

JUNE 20, 2024

Set a goal and budget. Then, evaluate the resources you have available to outline a budget for your team to work with. Share your crowdfunding page in your email newsletter, social media posts, website, and blog articles to maximize awareness both leading up to and on Giving Tuesday. Create your Giving Tuesday content.

Goals

Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

They oversee activities and play a large role in determining how you spend your budget and the goals you set. You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games. People can bid either in-person or virtually with a mobile app.

Fundraising

Fundly

MAY 18, 2021

When choosing your fundraising ideas, be sure to consider campaigns that match your team’s fundraising budget. For example, if you’re raising money for an ongoing project, you might choose an online fundraiser with blog-like features to keep your donors updated. What are the best fundraising ideas?

Fundraising

Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Luckily, Nicole Bennett of Perry Consulting joined us recently to discuss some silent auction ideas and offered great advice about how to devise an auction budget, and delved into what type of items to solicit. The post Silent Auction Ideas to Optimize Success appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. Price your items to sell.

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