Greater Giving

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about sending your GivingTuesday email: how to write it, when to send it, why it’s important, and who to target. Plus, we’ve included a ready-to-use email template that’s also been preloaded into Greater Giving Fundraising Software to make your email campaign even easier!

Fundraising

Wild Apricot

JULY 16, 2025

Cost-Effective Advertising Options Facebook Ads allow you to target specific audiences by location, interests and more, even with a modest budget. Read more: Write the BEST Nonprofit Mission Statement: 15 Examples + Free Template 2. If you have the budget for it, consider a social media scheduling tool. Consistency is key.

Media

Blackbaud

MARCH 31, 2025

These resources might include reporting templates and examples, access to community support, or information on professional development opportunities. These can include disbursement timelines, budget allocation, and project progress. Finally, consider requesting acknowledgement that they received the notice of award.

Grant

Blackbaud

MAY 2, 2025

Running budget scenarios early allows you to make informed choices and reduce surprises. Proactively share resources such as templates for strategic budgeting or checklists for cost containment best practices. Fewer donors or smaller gifts may require adjustments to your processes. Also, be proactive with your funding decisions.

Government

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2025

When your team is small, it’s vital that you focus on building strong workflows using templates, outsourcing, and automation to keep your team from being overwhelmed and overworked. Get Fully Funded has tons of great resources available for free on their website , including blogs, guides for beginners, and more.

Template

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2025

When your team is small, it’s vital that you focus on building strong workflows using templates, outsourcing, and automation to keep your team from being overwhelmed and overworked. Get Fully Funded has tons of great resources available for free on their website , including blogs, guides for beginners, and more.

Template

Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2025

Most profitable school fundraising ideas Driving a high return on investment (ROI) with your fundraising efforts is crucial to earning money for your school while staying on budget. Raffles You can host a raffle at any time and with almost any budget. Fundraising Event Planning Template.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

AUGUST 4, 2025

That makes it a natural fit for building awareness, reaching new audiences, and increasing revenue—especially when budgets and staff capacity are tight. Build a coaching plan that equips participants with what they need to succeed—from email templates and fundraising tips to social media toolkits and impact stories.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

APRIL 21, 2025

An RFP is a formal document that outlines your organizations needs, expectations, budget, and selection criteria when hiring vendors or consultants for a task. You need expert guidance on financial management to achieve accurate and compliant financial records, improve financial reporting, and tighten your budget.

Proposal

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

In this blog: When do nonprofits need urgent grant help? For example, our team has supported nonprofits with completing a new funder search , writing a single federal grant, or preparing a new grant template for your team to use to complete grant applications. What does a grant consultant bring to the table?

Grant Writing

Big Fundraising Ideas

MAY 13, 2025

School Nurse Day Fundraiser Ideas in2025 Blog Summary: School Nurse Day, observed in May of each year, provides a perfect opportunity to show appreciation for school nurses by raising funds to improve their work environment and resources. Like many areas within schools, school nurse offices often face budget constraints.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Blog Summary: Post-school fundraiser reviews are essential for ensuring long-term success and continuous improvement. Quantify results: Use metrics like satisfaction scores, participation rates, and budget comparisons to identify patterns. Did expenses exceed the budget, or was participant engagement lower than expected?

Fundraising

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Spend some time to update and refresh your toolkit of grant templates and answers to commonly asked questions as well as your organization's supporting documents. Prepare to request budget or timeline revisions as needed. Develop or revise your budget for professional development in 2025.

GPCI

Blackbaud

MAY 12, 2025

Navigating the budget approval process in nonprofit organizations can sometimes feel like a maze full of frustrating dead ends. By addressing these pain points in the nonprofit budget approval process, you can ensure that financial decisions are made quickly, transparently, and in alignment with organizational goals. Who approves what?

Budget

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Check out the following resources to support your annual giving program: Your Ultimate End-of-Year Fundraising Toolkit: Packed with strategies, templates, checklists, and insights to make this your most successful year yet. Annual Giving Resources from Blackbaud Looking for more annual giving inspiration?

Donation

DoJiggy

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Step 3: Create a Business Plan and Budget You’ll need to develop a business plan to start an animal rescue. Budget and Expenses Outline your expected costs, including the facility, animal care, administrative, and fundraising expenses. What We’ll Cover Animal Rescue vs. Animal Shelter: Is There a Difference?

Policy

Bonterra

JULY 31, 2025

Post Image: Reuse annotated screenshot of Givebutter Features Auction management including mobile bidding, item categorization, automated bidding, and buy-it-now pricing Donation forms that can be customized with specific fields and an organization’s branding Donor communication such as updates, receipts, automated messages, and templates.

CRM

Wild Apricot

JUNE 24, 2025

Nonprofits operate with tight budgets and small teams, and staying connected with donors, volunteers, and members is a major priority. Plus, many tools allow you to pull in recent blog posts, event listings or updates from your website automatically. The solution? Marketing automation. Pricing : Free for up to 500 contacts.

CRM

Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

The software comes with flexible, tiered pricing that makes it an excellent fit for small or midsized nonprofits that may have a lower budget but still need powerful tools. Premade content and templates: Leverage existing content and messaging to save time, or create your own for a more personalized feel. Customer service 4.8

Software

Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 29, 2025

Blog Summary: The article provides a comprehensive guide for schools looking to raise funds in 2025. Ideas for Schools to Raise Money in2025 School fundraising is more than just a way to bridge budget gaps-its an opportunity to unite students, parents, teachers, and the broader community to support education.

Fundraising

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

And sometimes the things you have outlined or that you have described are not outlined clearly in your budget. And when they look at it side by side, they may say, but wait, they're asking for this other thing in the budget, they didn't even talk about that. Look no further! That may or may not work together.

Instrumentl

Wild Apricot

JULY 24, 2025

We’ll share a few smart, manageable steps (no big budget or marketing team required). WildApricot’s mobile-friendly templates and drag-and-drop website editor make it easy to build a site that looks great on any device. Mobile Optimization & Page Speed Most visitors browse on mobile devices.

AI

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

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Retail

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

In one case, I was laid off from a job I had for three years at a not-for-profit organization because of budget cuts (third round of layoffs). I have found it helpful to peruse GrantZone for posts of interest to me, but I have searched for templates, forms, and more.

GPC

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

For some reason, whether it be some requirement that they had to be a certain type of organization or a certain budget or serve a certain population, it's like, oh, okay. We've got a template for you. So share in the chat what is one system that you've found to be super helpful in your work? That saves a ton of time.

Instrumentl

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To produce meaningful reports to help you do this, you must track all financial activity and ideally compare it to your budget, or your financial representation of what you think you’ll pursue during the year. You can run them with just a few clicks, and easily add columns for budget to actual, balances, and activity year-over-year.

Liability

Planned Giving

JULY 28, 2025

Whether you’re starting with an online template or working with a professional, taking this step ensures your loved ones have clear guidance during an emotional time. Many people successfully use online templates or will-making services to draft their own wills. Can I write my own will without a lawyer?

Template

AmpliFund

MARCH 13, 2024

In our recent webinar, I detailed ways to improve grant budgeting and ease financial reporting. Key considerations for your budget planning process: Strong financial planning in the early grant stages sets the stage for successful program implementation and reporting. You may need to use specific templates and provide documentation.

Budget

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

What you might not know is that the right fundraising plan template can make the job much easier. The bottom line: you need a fundraising plan built on the right fundraising plan template — one that outlines goals, actions, and the specific results you want. What Fundraising Plan Template is Right For YOU? Are you ready??

Template

Qgiv

MAY 15, 2023

Not everyone can be a math genius, but when you’re using a fundraising event budget template, you don’t have to be. Hosting an event requires your organization to do a lot of research and planning, but using a budgeting template can ease some of the stress of your staff.

Template

Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Let’s face it—budget planning can cause a lot of stress and anxiety for nonprofits. Most organizations face frequent budget cuts, which creates organizational uncertainty and a scramble for new funding options. Analyzing your budget this way also allows you to understand the ROI of each program.

Finance

Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Some don’t require reporting at all; others ask for verbal reports in-person or over video call; some allow us to repurpose reports; and others require traditional and extensive reports in their own custom templates and timelines. Our approach to simplifying reporting Reporting templates often ask similar questions in slightly different ways.

Grant

Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Social media and email marketing resources and templates can help you transform your mass communications into personalized donor engagements. Blogs If you learn better through reading than listening, nonprofit blogs are a great source of information for your organization. Qgiv Fundraising Blog. Bloomerang Blog.

Nonprofit

Grants.gov

JULY 9, 2019

The budget narrative – sometimes called the budget justification or budget detail – can also benefit from a skilled wordsmith. What follows are budget narrative writing tips that have been curated from a wide range of federal agency resources. What Is a Budget Narrative?

Budget Narrative

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

Budget

Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This resulted in a review of TCE’s grantmaking policies that may have inadvertently disadvantaged and disqualified smaller budget organizations, many of which were BIPOC-led. They eventually changed a rule that had been in place for many years, in which a general operating grant could not represent more than 30% of an organization’s budget.

Demographics

Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Your proposal is tailored to the funder and clearly answers each question  You likely need to write a lot of grant applications, so it’s a good idea to reuse past proposals as a template. Something as simple as saying you’ll run three events in the project description but budgeting for four events can ruin your credibility. 

Proposal