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. Q: Do we need an attorney on staff to manage planned gifts? And it’s never too early to start. Focus on generating gifts, then invest in back-end operations.

Policies

Wild Apricot

JULY 23, 2025

Sticking to an event budget. Why Use an Event Budget Template It seems as though events season is always upon us. Whether you’re planning a big trade expo or your annual member’s luncheon, event budgeting crucial for mission-driven organizations. Here’s two budget templates to make your own!

Template

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

The uniform guidance, legislation, the eGovernment Initiative, presidential memoranda, and the management agendas for the past two very different presidents have all pointed to the strategic management of data, particularly federal spending and performance data, all of which affects financial assistance. GPC Competencies: #1

Grant

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Vaeth, President Trumps Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sought to greatly expand the pause and review process to all federal assistance awards as defined in the Uniform Guidance (see 2 CFR 200.1) Author Bio : Henry Flood has been involved with getting and managing grants for more than 50 years.

Grant

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

Building and managing a strong nonprofit board of directors can be challenging. When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community: “What is your best advice for successfully managing a nonprofit board of directors? As an example, for the next board meeting, we will have 10-15 minutes on risk management.

Management

DoJiggy

JULY 29, 2025

Planning successful fundraisers requires clear objectives, effective promotion strategies, and wise budgeting to maximize engagement and financial outcomes. Successful Key Club fundraising also allows club members to attend statewide conferences, where they can learn valuable skills and network with other Key Club members.

Fundraising

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In early 1981, I went to Washington DC for a NAHRO (National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials) conference and some lobbying on the Hill. We sat in stunned silence as this dude ticked off the many proposed budget cuts to federal discretionary grant programs (our “mother’s milk”). Boy was I wrong.

Grant

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). It offers live and on-demand webinars, recorded sessions from GPA conferences, and exclusive virtual events. GrantSummit Scholarships – offers scholarships for conference registration only.

GPC

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

When you’re just getting started, it’s critical that one of your first steps is to create your nonprofit’s first budget to help you manage both your organization and your finances as it grows. Without a budget, you can find yourself in deep water, fast, with more money going out than coming in.

Budget

Blackbaud

APRIL 10, 2024

You know how important it is to manage your funds according to their purpose and source. Many nonprofit organizations struggle with managing restricted funds in an accounting system built for businesses, not nonprofits. If this mess of circumvention sounds familiar, you are not alone.

Funding

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2024

From my experience, this annual conference is the event for Blackbaud users, and the K–12 offerings are especially impressive this year. Deep Dives Before the Dive I never miss the dedicated pre-conference sessions , being held this year on Monday, September 23rd. Explore how to leverage AI and automation.

Conference

Wild Apricot

MARCH 24, 2009

Recently I’ve had a small role in helping to organize the annual conference.( Tags: event managment Associations Best practices Non-profit Communications nptech. And by bringing down the costs of putting on an event, registration fees can be kept at a level that's affordable for the participants. read more ).

Budget

Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2012

Streamline the registration and payment processes for your organization’s events, conferences, and classes with cloud-based services from the Acteva Donation Program. The Acteva Donation Program makes two of Acteva’s event management tools available, based on your organization’s budget size. Conferences.

Management

Blackbaud

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspired by more than 40 years of collaboration with private school leaders, Blackbaud has created a track of sessions for ATLIS 2024 , the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools’ annual conference. But what if your budget doesn’t match the magnitude of the risks?

AI

Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These can be tacked on to an existing event, such as your charity golf tournament, annual conference, or gala. It does add another step to the process and potentially some expense, but it should be factored into your budgets and fundraising plans whenever possible. Wrapping Up Thanking donors is crucial to retaining them over time.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of the best ways to do that is to attend nonprofit conferences. In addition to the info-packed sessions and workshops, these conferences provide invaluable opportunities to connect with other fundraisers, share ideas, and encourage each other. But how on earth do you choose the right fundraising conference to attend?

Conference

Grant Writer Team

MAY 23, 2024

Budget: Your writer needs full access to your books in most cases. Without a solid budget in place, no grant application will be a winner. Grant Management and Follow-Up: As a last step, your grant writer can follow up with your potential funders for results. Budget: Your writer needs full access to your books in most cases.

Consulting

Just Write Grants

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Juggling budgets, reporting, and compliance tasks makes you feel like a one-person circus act. ‍ You dream of a system to tame the grant management chaos and free up time for your actual mission. Forget wrangling hyperactive kittens – let's transform that chaos into funding zen with some of my favorite grant management best practices.

Grant Management

Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Use Bloomerang’s blog to learn expert insight into donor retention, volunteer management, fundraising, and more. This tool can be used to chat or video conference with your team in one workspace. You can host a virtual conference for up to 100 participants with this resource. Bloomerang Blog. Ask An Expert Archives. QuickBooks.

Nonprofit

Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Are you headed to San Francisco this week for the Nonprofit Technology Conference ? "The Online Nonprofit Technology Conference will let you connect with. Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

Conference

Blackbaud

JUNE 25, 2024

But like the rest of the nonprofit world, you face unique challenges when it comes to retaining employees, ranging from tight compensation budgets to work-balance issues. Example: A manager congratulating an employee on beating a monthly sales record Peer-to-peer recognition , which involves individual employees recognizing one another.

Indirect

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

How are they supposed to learn about the latest trends and techniques if they don’t attend conferences or attend association meetings. I understand that some organizations are struggling and the training budget is the first thing to go. Tags: Management. First, I believe that no nonprofit needs to struggle financially.

Training

The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

Outside of performance management, offer consistent and public encouragement and support. Apply Growth To Daily Management We have micro-moments on a daily basis that offer opportunities to create teachable moments. Praise and support will in time build the buy-in.

Pass-Through

Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2010

As alluded earlier in the TechSoup Blog, IT managers in the corporate sector are taking greater notice to a trend that we've encountered for many years — employees or volunteers bringing in their own computers to the office. At a session called "Bring Your Own Computer to Work — What Now?"

Conference

Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2015

Manage interruptions better. Manage competing priorities. Organize and manage electronic and paper information. Manage stress through purposeful action rather than passive reaction. Nonprofits and libraries will receive what is called a conference-room license. Deal with email overload. About the Webinar Series.

Conference

Strategic Grants

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Support from the CEO and management team is also crucial for an effective grant-seeking and fundraising strategy. For fundraising and grants strategy success, program delivery teams and fundraising teams raising the money for the programs must work cohesively. These KPIs ensure a strategic approach is in place.

Grant

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You can use People-OnTheGo training to help your organization's employees learn to: Manage interruptions better. Manage competing priorities. Organize and manage electronic and paper information. Manage stress through purposeful action rather than passive reaction. Deal with email overload. About the Webinar Series.

Conference

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You can use People-OnTheGo training to help your organization's employees learn to: Manage interruptions better. Manage competing priorities. Organize and manage electronic and paper information. Manage stress through purposeful action rather than passive reaction. Deal with email overload. About the Webinar Series.

Conference

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Marketing, facilities, budgeting, management, and everything else has changed, too—if not how you did them, then who accomplished the tasks, and where. Yes, their manager likely has the big picture in mind, but who knows better how the changes in the last year transformed their world than the person doing it? About the Author.

Training

Get Fully Funded

JULY 26, 2011

If you are a nonprofit director, you know that the budget line item for training and development is often the first one to go when things get tight. How else will you keep up with the latest trends in fundraising and nonprofit management? They attend workshops and conferences to increase their knowledge about their field.

Conference

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Getting involved in community events and conferences is a great way to network and meet people who may help you achieve your goals. Confer with members of your organization to come up with top priorities and the actionable steps you can take to meet those ends.

Application

Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

This post was authored by Salem Kimble, social media development manager with BetterWorld Telecom. The primary organizing principle behind all the practices that our team implements is a democratic and horizontal management structure. is management strategy where employees are evaluated on performance, not presence.)

Insurance

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

As we prepare to launch the third series of Social Media for Nonprofits conferences with our New York City flagship conference on March 7, we thought it’d be helpful to share a few of the many practical insights and tips enjoyed by our audience of 2,500 nonprofit leaders last year. We hope you find these tips helpful!

Conference

Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

While this letter is a positive step, both a panel at this year's Stronger Together Conference and follow-up interviews with the participants demonstrates that more than open letters will be needed to change the conversation around costs, impact, overhead, and mission. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.

Indirect Cost

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

He manages the organization's website, databases, desktop support, social media, webinars, newsletter, IT network, training, and new program development, including integrating new information technology tools. Samuels' first step in migrating to Office 365 was to put together a five-year budget projection.

Nonprofit

Grant Consulting Services

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Now, we can delve deeper into interpreting and assessing RFPs, aligning organizational needs, and tracking and managing funder information. Information session attendance: High attendance at bidders’ conferences or information sessions suggests strong interest, which can mean more competition.

Grant

Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

" HAF wanted to reach these communities in 18 states, but had a very limited budget to do so. This is the tech they relied on: CRM — In order to manage partnerships across the country and keep track of workshops and events, HAF needed a robust constituent relationship management (CRM) program.

CRM