Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

For nonprofits, this means less time spent proving worth through excessive documentation and more focused on delivering impact. This could be a one-page mutual expectations document outlining how you’ll communicate, report impact, and share feedback over time. Document a clear use policy. Create a “trust agreement.”

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Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

By outlining the demographics and interests of your attendees, you can connect with businesses that see a relevantmarket. Sponsors may have concerns, budget limitations, or other commitments. Were Tight on Budget RightNow In this case, you can propose a payment timeline or a smaller sponsorship package.

Fundraising

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Understanding Donor Demographics: The Generational Wealth Transfer Opportunity $68 trillion in wealth transfers to younger generations over next 20 years. Nonprofits now compete more strategically for discretionary dollars, making sophisticated fundraising and legacy giving programs essential components of organizational sustainability.

Funding

Blackbaud

JULY 23, 2025

Why this is important Public funding may only constitute a small portion of your budget, but it could mean the difference between having programs and accommodations or not. Run budget scenarios to understand your short and long-term challenges. Document everything for audits. For an English-learner program? Optimize drawdowns.

Policy

Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For instance, digital documents can be read out loud to signees by screen readers, and visual elements like color contrast, screen brightness, and text size can easily be adjusted. Common segment categories include demographics, psychographics, philanthropic history and behavior, and communication preferences. Create donor segments.

Retainer

Strategic Grants

MARCH 20, 2024

Strong project plan A Project Plan (Service Delivery plan) was already documented and shared between the T&F Manager and Service Delivery Team. Expenditure Summary Full income and expenditure budget and explanation of any discrepancy compared to the original application budget. and the need met by the project. The result?

Funding

Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can review nonprofits’ tax returns on GuideStar to find out more about their budgets, expenses, and how much top salaried employees are paid. On-demand trainings can be taken any time, with recent topics including fostering an inclusive culture , finding funding , and writing grant proposal budgets. Philanthropy News Digest .

Letter Of Inquiry

Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Project description Your project description should delve deep into the specific activities of your project and how they will benefit your target demographic. Project budget Here you’ll get down to the dollars and cents required to address your need or problem.

Proposal

Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Instead, in December of each year, our development team creates one exhaustive document that covers everything we anticipate we’ll need for grant reporting. For example, if we receive a one-year grant in November 2023, we must allocate that funding to our 2023 budget from a financial perspective. We call this our narrative report.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Use a spreadsheet to document all fundraising endeavors, assessing expenses, benefits, and key details for each. Move beyond basic demographics to understand motivations, interests, and communication preferences. Kickstarting the budgeting journey involves setting a comprehensive, year-long fundraising goal.

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Sharpshooter Communications

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Working with partners in the community is a strength -- but you need to document what you do! Your board of directors should reflect the community you serve in terms of demographics. What is your annual budget? Your current budget reflects the amount of funding you can reasonably expect to receive in grants.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Being targeted about the questions we ask on applications and throughout our grantee relationships helps to frame understandings, document learning, and identify challenges or barriers. Sometimes, I was involved in documenting housing mortgage lending discrimination. or “What is the geographic location served?”

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Overview of the Grant Money Application Process The grant money application process generally involves several key steps, including researching potential grants, preparing required documentation, submitting applications, and following up with grantors. Eligibility : Understanding the specific criteria required by each grant.

Applicant

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Prepare Documentation : Gather necessary documentation, including financial statements and organizational information. Detailed Budget Provide a detailed budget outlining the costs associated with the project. Complete the Application : Fill out all required fields thoroughly and accurately.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

Successfully securing corporate sponsors for your fundraising event can not only give your budget and staff’s bandwidth a boost. Next, you’ll also want to explain the type of fundraising event you are hosting, its goals, and your target demographic, plus attendance estimates. A summary of your fundraising event needs.

Fundraising

Just Write Grants

APRIL 23, 2024

The Best Choice for You Consider your budget (cloud subscriptions vs. free), tech comfort level (cloud vs. physical), and collaboration needs (shared access) to pick the perfect platform. Program Budgets: Demonstrate your financial responsibility and resource allocation. Budgets: Provide a clear breakdown of your financial plans.

Grant Writing

Get Fully Funded

JULY 11, 2022

Pays for their sponsorship out of their marketing budget, philanthropy budget, or general profit of the business. This document, whether shared in print or electronic form, needs to look polished and be easy to glance through. Demographics of your audience. Gets their name and/or logo on event materials and signage.

Fundraising

DoJiggy

JULY 29, 2024

This cost-control feature is especially advantageous for fundraising campaigns with limited budgets, as it allows for more effective financial management. Remember to clearly and concisely document your goals and KPIs. So, identify your target audience based on demographics, interests, and online behaviors.

Fundraising

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Individuals and organizations interested in maximizing their potential should explore the various government grants available, including opportunities for specific demographics, such as grant money for women-owned businesses and grant money for homeless shelters. Include an estimated budget and timeline.

Government

Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

You’ve heard that a technology plan can help you plan and budget better for technology acquisitions, but how do you go about creating your organization's plan? Your technology plan is a document that lays out the goals and objectives of adopting and implementing technology. Ariel Gilbert-Knight and Carlos Bergfeld.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Some of the information you need to curate may seem obvious – your organization’s mission and history, metrics about how many people you serve and their demographics, details about your activities and methods, etc. Curating that pool of information is vital to efficient grant writing.

Management

Community Boost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Their mission is bolstered by well-documented impact stats, which lends credence to their cause. Direct mail is also an effective method if you have the budget for it. If the budget isn’t enough to cover both social media ads and direct mail, prioritize social media ads due to their targeted nature and ROI potential.

Fundraising

GiveSmart

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Create a sponsor pack Your sponsor pack is a comprehensive document with an overview of and pitch for your event. Target audience: Detail your target audiences, including demographics like age and region. How to Secure Sponsorships for Your Nonprofit Event Now that you know your ideal prospects, recruiting them is the next step.

Fundraising

Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

A marketing plan is a document that details the ins and outs of your marketing strategy for a specific event or campaign. Some organizations prefer to prepare these documents at the beginning of each fiscal year, and some create them as individual campaigns come up. Put Together a Promotions Budget. Download our template!

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Tom Ahern

AUGUST 7, 2023

If the Pilchers are typical for this community (which they are; I checked local demographics), they are a great example of what this community is doing to keep its local library healthy, vibrant, relevant, furiously active! The newsletter is an InDesign document [a top pro software from Adobe; complicated]. what SHOULD we do?!?!?!

Pass-Through

CauseVox

JANUARY 16, 2025

An annual nonprofit development plan (or fundraising plan ) is simply a document that includes your fundraising goals for the year and how you plan to reach them. Kickstarting the budgeting journey involves setting a comprehensive, year-long fundraising goal. For instance, lets consider a total operating budget of $200,000.

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