Strategic Grants

MARCH 25, 2025

Like many, the Strategic Grants team is unpacking the details of the 25-26 Federal Budget. While the budget seems to favour individual households, there are sector specific initiatives worth mentioning. Our round-up is below, plus links to additional budget resources. Strengthening the social safety net The budget includes $11.5

Budget

Grant Writer Team

MAY 1, 2025

Establish Your Grant Calendar – After grants of interest are located, the next step is to organize your calendar. Use the GrantWatch Calendar to organize your grant pipeline. For example, many funders ask for a budget, letters of support, and attachments. Set reminders so you never miss a deadline.

Management

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 23, 2024

He was facing a significant tax liability if he didn’t get this completed before the calendar rolled into January. This allowed him the complete deduction in that calendar year. It simply is not inspirational for a charity to declare that they must have more resources in the next few weeks to meet their budget.

Liability

Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For many nonprofits, a live or silent auction is the pinnacle of their fundraising event calendar. To help you get started, this guide will discuss four proven tips for procuring auction prizes your audience will want to bid on while sticking to your event budget. Let’s dive in!

Procurement

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Funders review hundreds of applications, and issues such as unclear objectives, vague budgets, or an ineffective statement of need can easily push your proposal to the bottom of the pile. Error #3: Budget Doesn’t Add Up The Issue Your budget tells funders whether your plan is realistic and whether you can be trusted with their money.

Proposal

Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Solution To manage time constraints effectively: Develop a Grant Calendar : Create a detailed calendar with deadlines, submission requirements, and timelines for each grant application. Budgeting and Financials 5.1 Challenge Creating a detailed and accurate budget that aligns with the grant’s requirements can be complex.

Grant Writing

GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2025

Unfeasible Budget: The higher the funding amount, the more stringent the rules. GrantWatch offers a Personalized Grants Calendar that helps you easily keep track and monitor your grants. These are typically things like a budget, a list of board members, and letters of support. 5 Popular Grants and Matching Categories 1.

Applicant

GrantNews

JUNE 12, 2025

However, you don’t need a million-dollar budget to make a difference. Transparent Reports: Funding for Your Nonprofit Build trust with your team and supporters by providing a clear, realistic budget. Utilize budgeting tools to monitor spending patterns. In truth, every decision you make affects the impact of your group.

Funding

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2025

You likely already have the due dates in your calendar – use this time to connect with relevant stakeholders on the grant’s status. Similarly, financial reports serve as clear documentation of spending as well as changes to the original budget. But beyond that – grant reports can also be used as: 1. A Tool for Internal Communication.

Grant

Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

By John Killoran Leaders across the nonprofit sector face a common challenge: striving to serve a growing community of beneficiaries with constrained budgets. Create an event calendar to plan the timing of each fundraiser, including time before and after for event planning and follow-up. The good news? Offer tiered ticket pricing.

Nonprofit

The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 17, 2025

From tight budgets to limited staffing, these hurdles can make even the simplest event feel overwhelming. Budget Constraints Tight finances can make it difficult to secure venues, hire vendors, and provide high-quality experiences for attendees. However, many organizations face common challenges that complicate the planning process.

Budget

Capital Campaign Pro

APRIL 21, 2025

With Congress slow to finalize agency budgets, federal grants that organizations have relied on for years are frozen in place. Others have quietly vanished from grant calendars. These disruptions are creating sudden and sizable budget holes. Many nonprofits are feeling the ripple effects of stalled federal appropriations.

Grants Calendar

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

Across the nonprofit sector, countless small nonprofits and grassroots organizations do life-changing work with limited staff, tight budgets, and never enough daily hours. Instead, seek out funders who explicitly welcome first-time applicants, smaller budgets , or grassroots initiatives. You’re not alone. Start local. and availability.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Working with your program and development teams, your finance staff identifies funding gaps, supplies important budget numbers, sets up projects in your accounting software, establishes spending approvals, and creates reporting schedules. Address budget variances and determine how you will spend any remaining funds according to grant terms.

Government

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Each structure offers unique advantages based on an organization’s needs and budget constraints. A nonprofit can make better budget decisions for grant writing services by knowing these payment models. This setup helps everyone – organizations can budget exactly, while writers get rewarded for working efficiently.

Grant

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Prepare to request budget or timeline revisions as needed. A Plan for 2025 What is on your calendar as you look forward to the new year? Take advantage of webinars from GPA and other professional trainers on how to create an effective grant calendar. Develop or revise your budget for professional development in 2025.

GPCI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Update Your Grant Calendar An organized, realistic calendar is the backbone of a successful nonprofit grant strategy, especially as you approach the high-stakes Q3 and Q4 deadlines. Include milestones for internal review, feedback, budget revisions, and final polishing. Tip: Link training back to your active grant calendar.

Grant

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Large nonprofits with large fundraising teams may have the budget to hire a full-time grant writer; however, the process to hire a grant writer often takes more than 6 months from start to finish. Read our article here to learn more. After the grant writer is hired, the new hire still must be on-boarded and trained.

Consultant

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Large nonprofits with large fundraising teams may have the budget to hire a full-time grant writer; however, the process to hire a grant writer often takes more than 6 months from start to finish. Read our article here to learn more. After the grant writer is hired, the new hire still must be on-boarded and trained.

Consultant

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. If you have the budget for it, consider a social media scheduling tool. ⏰ The 10 Essential Facebook Steps for Your Nonprofit (and How Much of Your Time It Will Take) 1. Consistency is key.

Media

Gail Perry Group

MAY 8, 2025

Budgets are vanishing, yet community needs keep piling up. And budgets are being eliminated overnight. When Cassie worked for her local congressman, she literally decided his appointment calendar. By Gail Perry and Cassie Rice Its a very tough time for federally funded organizations! Too many nonprofits are feeling the squeeze.

Government

GrantNews

JANUARY 2, 2025

In truth, tracking metrics like donor retention, return per acquisition, and volunteer engagement helps teams increases productivity, optimize their marketing budget and more. Grant-seekers can then add grants of interest to their Grants Calendar to ensure deadlines are not missed. Donor-Centric Practices We hear it all the time.

AI

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

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? Build a resource library: Include volunteer guides, marketing strategies, and budgeting tools that can be reused oradapted.

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

And if your grant calendar lives in one place, your tasks in another, your drafts in a hidden folder, and your funder research on sticky notes… of course, your strategy is falling apart. But let’s be clear: while a calendar is helpful, it isn’t a grant strategy. Most nonprofit teams utilize these kinds of tools to get started.

Grant Writing

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

A grant consultant works for you based on your organizations needs and your budget to optimize the grant funding process. After our quick onboarding process, we could work through their foundation grant calendar, ensuring no deadlines were missed. The MGL team brings speed and strategy to the table.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

Your grant calendar is connected to your funder history. Your narrative and budget templates evolve with every proposal. It’s coming for the late nights spent searching your inbox for last year’s budget narrative. In a system like the AI Grants Hub ™ , grant readiness becomes built-in.

Grant Writing

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

This guide offers the most practical, scalable approach to launching a planned giving programeven if you’re a small nonprofit with limited staff and budget. And it’s never too early to start. Quick Start Guide If you need to launch quickly, focus on these five core elements. What small update can I make to our messaging?

Policies

Grant Writer Team

JUNE 12, 2025

Add your grant to your Grants Calendar to keep track of your grant applications. In short, this tool allows you to search by recipient type, location, category interests, funding source type, and deadline date. Each grant listing includes eligibility criteria, application details, deadlines, and additional resources.

Applicant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Disconnected calendars, outdated folders, missing attachments, and “Where’s that link again?” Fluid Strategy : You don’t treat your funding calendar like a rigid checklist. This includes narratives, budgets, deadlines, and funder history. messages in Slack don’t just waste time. This isn’t theoretical. It’s possible now.

Readiness

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Sponsors may have concerns, budget limitations, or other commitments. Here are some common objections and how to addressthem: We Already Have a Charitable Commitment ThisYear If a sponsor has already allocated their charity budget elsewhere, offer a smaller-scale involvement.

Fundraising

Planned Giving

APRIL 17, 2025

Donors dont remember your calendar. Maybe they can Snapchat your budget deficit. Because asking strangers for pennies will surely stabilize the budget. Yes, if your goal is to be ignored in bulk. Delusion No. 45 Were not salespeople. You are if you want donations. This is sales with a halo. Delusion No. Delusion No. It never is.

SAM

Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

Share on the calendar, assign event teams, and stay aware of signups and attendance. 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. Plus, it integrates seamlessly with the rest of the Bonterra suite.

Software

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

And with a calendar view, you can see whats coming up at a glance, from campaign launches to donor meetings. Start by Choosing the Right Platform Look for a CRM that fits your teams size, budget, and goals. Task management tools help you (and your team) stay organized, assigning to-dos and contacts while tracking progress in one place.

CRM

DoJiggy

APRIL 8, 2025

This benefits both your fundraiser and lacrosse families looking for budget-friendly gear. Team Calendar Sale Create and sell a team calendar featuring action shots, player spotlights, and upcoming game schedules. Items like private coaching sessions, curated gift baskets, and restaurant gift cards can generate high bids.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

If your nonprofit pays a contractor $600 or more in a calendar year, then you will need to issue them a form 1099-NEC at the end of the year. Businesses are required by law to track and record all payments to independent contractors, so that the IRS can confirm both parties pay the appropriate taxes.

Finance

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. That may or may not work together. Allow extra time if possible.

Instrumentl

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

And with a calendar view, you can see whats coming up at a glance, from campaign launches to donor meetings. Start by Choosing the Right Platform Look for a CRM that fits your teams size, budget, and goals. Task management tools help you (and your team) stay organized, assigning to-dos and contacts while tracking progress in one place.

CRM