Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Being a multi-unit franchisee, managing a regional marketing co-op, mentoring 100 business owners, and volunteering with over 50 charity events enlightened her to the synergy and challenges faced by both donor companies and nonprofit event leaders regarding in-kind donations. Renee Zau is the CEO & Co-Founder of DonationMatch.

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GrantNews

JULY 19, 2024

By staying informed and seeking professional guidance when needed, you can effectively manage your finances and make the most of grant opportunities without running into unexpected tax issues. Understanding how grants impact your taxes is crucial to managing finances effectively and avoiding unexpected tax issues.

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Fundly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

10+ Top Fundraising Consulting Firms: Find the Best Partner! Similarly, when your nonprofit organization has a problem it cant solve on its own, your best bet is to turn to a nonprofit consulting firm! But one of the most common types of consulting nonprofits seek is fundraising consulting.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 30, 2024

Area 1: Management and General Reimbursement (aka Administrative Overhead) Before the decision is made to go for the grant, the team (including the CFO) should determine how Management and General (M&G, also known as administrative overhead—i.e., The original program has six case managers and the additional services require three.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 13, 2010

As a consultant to nonprofits, my blood just boils when I am asked by executive directors or board members, “So, we are thinking about hiring a development officer, how long it will take before this person is raising more money than the salary we pay them?”

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Yes, I have worked as a solo grant professional within a larger organization and as a lone grant consultant, working from home with no official colleagues to speak of. Not so shocking note: though I haven’t worked there in over seven years, those two ladies are some of my favorite lunch dates and book club friends.)

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

And we're hoping you do too because we want you to join our new Social Impact Book Club. Every quarter we'll pick a business book that's relevant to your social impact work. BTW: I'd rather do a book monthly than quarterly, but let's take baby steps!) Bonus points if you have a book to suggest. Here's how it will work.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 25, 2024

You may also choose to work with an HR consultant to design your Total Rewards strategy. According to RealHR Solutions , you should look for a consultant who is an expert in Total Rewards, has strong communication skills, and is willing to collaborate with your team. This will set you up for a successful consulting experience.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

That’s why we freely share our expertise with the sector through a variety of channels: Live and on-demand trainings : Learn about a range of topics from starting a nonprofit to proposal writing, management, governance, sustainability, and transparency.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2025

No matter how much financial planning or nonprofit management training you receive, some things about fundraising have to be learned the hard way. She cites a book titled Smart Brevity , which helped her improve her grant writing and avoid buzzwords and fluff. In short: Direct is best!

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 26, 2025

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As Double the Donation’s nonprofit data management guide explains, donation tools automatically collect and store essential gift information, including the donation amount, date, and payment method. Relevant data, such as revenue and expenses, can be drawn from your event management and donation platforms.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That might be why Wiley Publishing chose him and another location-based pro Aaron Strout to write the dummies book on LBM. The author of a couple great books on cause marketing. Brian Powell is a Dallas-based cause marketer who is the managing director of cause marketing agency Patron. Jocelyne Daw. GoodConcepts. BrighterCause.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 26, 2024

Your auditor’s year-end work will remain critical to ensure the financial integrity of your nonprofit’s books and records and compliance with ever-changing regulations. The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. In Hsieh’s book, “ Delivering Happiness ,” he writes about the 10 core values of Zappos culture, which include: Deliver WOW through service. Pursue growth and learning. Embrace and drive change.

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Pass-Through Nonprofit Training Retail 84

Blackbaud

MAY 19, 2023

Your financial team is experienced at doing piles of work in a short amount of time to get books closed and reports out the door while the information is still actionable. This expense is for 5003-Consulting Fees. But even for professionals, the flurry of data entry can open the door to a plethora of potential errors.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

She is a poet, an environmental activist, and a nonprofit management expert with a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. By 2004 she had come back to her hometown of Baton Rouge and was working as a management consultant to a failing nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2012

Virtual Aid Drive is a set of web-based online fundraising and donation drive management tools. Virtual Aid Drive helps organizations run drives to collect food, books, clothing, and other needed items. Simplifying Online Fundraising with AidMatrix. It's a cloud-based tool, built on the Windows Azure platform. The cool twist?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Learn the nuts and bolts of effective nonprofit management through First Things First - a series of free webinars from TechSoup's donor partner GiftWorks. In April, Tom published his third book, First Things First. Tom now manages a nonprofit consulting business and regularly speaks at seminars and conferences around the country.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2010

The book is edited by Ted Hart, Adrienne Capps, and Matthew Bauer. The green technology solutions chapter by Alex Shan and Joseph Khunaysir of Jolera , a strategic IT consulting company, is the part of the book dedicated to green IT. ce with content management systems. Part one of this review is here. The green of?ce

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If your organization closes their books on December 31, your deadline to file your form 990 is May 15. Mistake #7: Losing Track of Important Documentation Like tax documentation you would save for your personal tax filing, your tax-exempt organization should have a process for managing the documentation for your 990 filing.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Area 1: Management and General Reimbursement (aka Administrative Overhead) Before the decision is made to go for the grant, the team (including the CFO) should determine how Management and General (M&G, also known as administrative overhead—i.e., The original program has six case managers and the additional services require three.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

One church fundraising consulting firm found that as many as 50 percent of people who receive fundraising mailings go online to make their contribution. TechSoup has a number of donated products that are available to churches to manage donors, accounting, and donation tracking and reporting, so you can go high tech with your collection plate.

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Software Finance Management Electronics 63

Selfish Giving

JULY 2, 2012

Maggie Keenan, a branding and cause marketing consultant in Savannah, Georgia, is a graduate of my Six Figure Cause Marketing course, a program that shows nonprofits and businesses how to develop and execute an effective and lucrative pinup program. KFC, Taco Bell & DQ Dishing Out Meals to End Hunger. Sign-up Here.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Start with your startup costs: Registering as a 501(c)3 with the IRS and with your state, subscribing to cloud-based software such as accounting, donor management, and other tools, hiring legal support or other experts, and leasing a facility, if necessary. Next, donor management. Next, donor management.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ken Homer is the founding partner of Collaborative Conversations - Include More Voices, Make Better Choices , a consultancy offering numerous approaches to bring people together in ways that are both productive and fulfilling. Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2016

PDM incorporates the 15-minute technique of tip #1 and a simple journal system of tags for recording current tasks and managing distractions. By becoming aware of your interruptions, external or internal, you can learn to better manage your focus. Remind yourself of your current task by consulting your activity record (see tip #2).

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

He was a character invented not long ago to sell bookings on Hotels.com. Marketing, facilities, budgeting, management, and everything else has changed, too—if not how you did them, then who accomplished the tasks, and where. Matt Hugg is an author and instructor in nonprofit management in the US and abroad. No kidding!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. In Hsieh’s book, “ Delivering Happiness ,” he writes about the 10 core values of Zappos culture, which include: Deliver WOW through service. Pursue growth and learning. Embrace and drive change.

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Pass-Through Nonprofit Training Retail 62

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Executive Director is responsible for managing staff and volunteers and running day-to-day operations. Later, the Board may need to recruit and hire an Executive Director and decide on a pay scale. Either way, the Board has one employee to oversee: the Executive Director. Find more information about nonprofit Boards at boardsource.org.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 28, 2022

I know that budgets and projections aren’t that easy for many people, so let me break it down and make it more manageable for you. Step 1: Consult past performance. This is where fundraising becomes more art than science because now we’re talking about what your donors will respond to and you won’t find the answer in a book.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over the past few years, we’ve done a Day in the Life of a grant writing consultant (both for me and one of my team members, Alisha ). But the truth is, I no longer do much grant writing consulting myself. I own a grant writing consultancy, and I have grant writers on my team who do 99% of the writing.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

“We’re really really happy with the success” says Liz Dicus who has managed the campaign as ACCO’s administrative coordinator. In addition to Teespring, ACCO also uses Shopify to manage their online store. You can manage your shop from an iOS device.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2021

Are you managing risk? When dealing with policies, procedures, and processes (for example), consult an accountant, attorney, HR professional, and anyone else you need to ensure you get everything set up properly. You’d probably also be, in the early days, the manager, the lead cashier, and the head donut maker.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

If you want to bring grant prospecting, tracking, and management to one place, we can help you do that. Whether grant writing or just nonprofit work in general or task management, anything, what is one system that you love? So we have some consultants who will have their non-profits create their own accounts. I know I sure do.

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Just Write Grants

MARCH 13, 2024

Grant management software can be your knight in shining armor. to managing proposals with team collaboration tools. to managing proposals with team collaboration tools. While specific pricing isn't publicly available, it's recommended to contact them directly for a consultation. Fluxx doesn't offer a free tier.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

WHO defines burnout as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Consider outsourcing special opportunities to a consultant to prepare a proposal and respect grant professional’s capacity. However, sometimes it is a great fit.

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