Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

If you’re a grant writing consultant, it’s buying you a one-way ticket to Grant Writer Burnout Land — a place you definitely don’t want to visit. This service gives you a fully customized, ready-to-use Grants Hub—plus strategy support and training—so you can skip the setup and dive straight into grant writing. Yep, that’s right.

Grant Writing

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

EmilyThabes from Beltrami County Historical Society Invest in board training and orientations for better results. I also encourage organizations to invest in board development training. Lisa Palermo from Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County Brief board training boosts understanding and focus at meetings. Relationship building!

Management

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Find Your Next Grant 17K Live Grants on Instrumentl 150+ Grants Added Weekly Try Instrumentl free for 14 days Step Up Your Systems for Success: How to Simplify, Streamline and Support Your Team - Grant Training Transcription Will: Hello, everyone. Another benefit is that it allows you to hire and train support. Spreadsheets.

Instrumentl

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the advancement office, since we deal with all of the data, gifts, and reporting, you can definitely be assured that critical needs are very common. Q3: What type of critical needs come up in the advancement office, and how do you and your team pivot when it’s received on short notice? Transformation requires change management, however.

Software

The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 11, 2020

Not out of touch, but definitely optimistic. Cutting fundraising and marketing budgets. When money gets tight, the knee-jerk reaction seems to be to cut the fundraising and marketing budgets. What to do: Rather than cutting budgets and staff, seek to make the programs and people more effective. But we can't allow it to.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The training. As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? Look at it this way: If you’re not spending at least 15% of your budget on fundraising, you may be standing in the way of your own success. Fundraising training.

Fundraising

Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

Depending on your organizational culture, you may need to expand your definition of who is a major donor. Start by selecting a gift level and definition for major donor that aligns with your organization’s data and values. Prospect research—don’t have the budget for prospect research software? Build your team. Remember to ask.

CRM

Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

It's definitely on the list (number 2, in fact). At first we were a bit surprised by the number one response: training staff on technology. We also know that training is one of the most effective ways to support successful adoption and use of technology in your organization. Self-paced or on-demand online training.

Training

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

We’ll start by discussing the “why” of these changes, why the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decided to make them now, and how they align with larger changes happening in the federal government. This has led to a more robust definitions section and ensures a lack of ambiguity.

UEI

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

What Nonprofit Leadership Really Is By definition, a leader is someone in a position of authority with the responsibility to guide a group. In your plan, be sure to include who (help you’ll need) will do what (responsibilities), what things will cost (budget), and how you’ll stay on target (accountability).

Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

When set up right, your nonprofit accounting system will help you manage your nonprofit and streamline processes like budgeting, projecting cash flow, and even hiring. There’s nothing to really manage and definitely not enough to justify spending money on Accounting software. Here’s a visual example for you.

IT

GrantNews

MARCH 7, 2024

The thing is, though, the programs that train dogs, teach handlers, and offer general support have to be funded. It’s true that some police departments have adequate fundraising and budgets. However, many departments rely on grant programs to recruit, train, and maintain K9 units. They work hard and are the best pups.

Grant

Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2016

The dashboards also make it possible to go from summary accounts/reports for budgeting and spending purposes to detailed, easy-to-read breakdowns with a just few clicks on the organization's intranet site. Train Diligently. Choose KPIs that are connected to the bigger picture in a way that makes substantive analysis possible.

Metrics

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

A child advocacy organization might aim to double the number of volunteers trained to protect children in the court system. If your Board adopted a budget for the fiscal year, your fundraising goal is the same as the total expenditures, plus at least 5 percent for cash reserves. When you strive, you thrive.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

According to the report, 99% of public libraries offer access to technology, and 90% report offering some sort of digital literacy skills training. And with staff cuts and shrinking budgets, it is becoming more difficult to support digital literacy efforts. " The Role of Libraries. The Role of Schools. A United Front.

Policy

Strategic Grants

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It is the quality and most definitely NOT the quantity of applications. Invest in your own professional development (it is your career after all) and advocate for professional development and training within your organisation. 2024 marks 15 years of Strategic Grants. You can find out more about the Strategic Grants team here.

Grant

Grant Training Center

MARCH 30, 2020

Or, you want to do something that is really cool and are burning to share it… but there isn’t enough time or treasure in the budget to actually do it right. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.”

Proposal

CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

If that data isnt available or you are a start-up, look at your estimated budget or check out the stats of similar organizations. If you dont have access to this data or are a new organization, use your estimated budget or research the financial trends of similar organizations to guide your analysis. Will new staff be brought on?

Fundraising

Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In 1997, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised its standards on federal race and ethnicity definitions. How do you help to bridge the gap between what the federal definition says and how clients choose to self-report their race and ethnicity in order to report out as accurately as possible to your funders?

GPC

Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), an agency within the Executive Office of the President, issues government-wide grants-related guidance for federal departments and agencies and is responsible for the maintenance of this document. There are six subparts and twelve appendices: Subpart A – Acronyms and Definitions (2 CFR 200.0

GPC

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

These volunteers provide training in first aid, CPR, and disaster preparedness and give support to those who have lost their homes to disaster. "I was looking around for a way to make a service like Huddle work with a budget that is negligible and found the offering on TechSoup," Hersher said. " Tapping Into Huddle.

Management

Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

I didn’t know much about nonprofits, but I knew plenty about technology, computer distribution, and technical training. When I left, SDFF had a staff of 36 and a budget of $4.5 I know how technology can help, and I definitely know how it can hurt. We had distributed more than 25,000 computers to 1,000+ nonprofits.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

There are a few best practices to think through when it comes to general do’s and don’ts of volunteer management , and onboarding is definitely on that list. Consider allocating part of your budget for special awards or small gifts, especially to celebrate the conclusion of an event and everyone’s hard work.

Management

Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the number of students we taught rose and tenure-track faculty left, they were replaced with wonderful, intelligent, highly-trained contingent faculty with heavy teaching loads, by-the-course or one-year contracts, and little to no support for equipment, materials, or professional development. Plus, it was a toxic, dangerous workplace.)

Ethics

Fundly

MAY 18, 2021

When choosing your fundraising ideas, be sure to consider campaigns that match your team’s fundraising budget. This way, you can put your budget into creating a great atmosphere for your attendees to enjoy. Nonprofit Training Courses Sometimes to raise more funds in the long-run, you need to invest in your own team.

Fundraising

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds. By definition, board members should be counted on to make sacrificial gifts or at least to consider the organization a high priority for their philanthropy.

Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2023

Here are some other definitions of freedom ( www.merriam-webster.com ): Being released from something onerous The quality of being frank, open, or outspoken Boldness of conception or execution Unrestricted use You know, several of those make me think of fundraising. Sole-source funding is not a secure way to fund your budget.

Fundraising

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

And definitely go out of your way to Google and look for new funding sources regularly. You don’t want to pull an all-nighter to write an important grant proposal and you definitely don’t want to wait until the last minute to hit ‘Submit’. I’ve listed only some of the function of GSuite so definitely check it out.

Grant

Center for Major Gifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

Definition and Importance of Planned Giving Planned giving refers to the process of making a charitable gift during a donor’s life or at death that is part of their financial or estate plan. If not, are you willing to invest in training or hire specialists? How much should we budget for starting a planned giving program?

Pass-Through

Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

A nonprofit marketing plan requires you to think through your marketing goals, your audience’s communication needs, your organization’s brand, your budget, marketing channels you want to use, and what roles your team members play in your marketing strategy. Put Together a Promotions Budget. Download our template!

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

One of our long-time students wrote in: “We’re 74% of the way to our revenue budget and we’re not quite halfway through our fiscal year and are up 322% year over year (last year we raised almost $770K) How are we doing it? Don’t expect to bring in a consultant for a 1-hour training and slack off the rest of the year. Use yours wisely.

Nonprofit

Candid

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In the wake of last weeks news regarding the Office of Management and Budget memorandum instructing federal agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, many of us are trying to understand the potential impact of a freeze on federal funding on the nonprofit sector.

Nonprofit