GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2025

Unfeasible Budget: The higher the funding amount, the more stringent the rules. Writing Needs Improvement: If writing is not your thing, you might consider using a software program. Missing Items: Have all documentation ready and attached before you submit. Go over your books with care and be sure every penny is accounted for.

Application

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Key elements of grant guidelines may include: Eligibility criteria (who can apply) Project scope and objectives Required documents (e.g., Budget Details how funding should be allocated. This section outlines the essential elements of a grant proposal and offers valuable insights into crafting a persuasive document.

Grant Writing

Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2025

For instance, your data about volunteers might be housed in your volunteer management software and not get transferred to your CRM, preventing you from easily checking which donors also volunteer. For instance, leverage software that allows you to create access levels. Documenting internal processes.

Management

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Implementing fund accounting software with subfund capabilities can help your team avoid common nonprofit audit mistakes by streamlining grants management, documentation management, and other key processes. The auditor will need recent tax documents, payroll details, annual financial statements, among other documentation.

Finance

DoJiggy

JANUARY 8, 2025

Event Management Software can simplify ticketing, registrations, and event promotion. Here are some tips to keep your finances organized: Set a Budget Determine the costs of your event, including venue, marketing, supplies, and any other expenses. A clear budget prevents overspending and ensures profitability.

Fundraising

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

A strong grant proposal has sections about the organization’s background, project details, story, budget, and ways to measure success. Grant writers serve as documentation specialists and salespeople for their organizations. Grants go to organizations based on merit, not just need. The nonprofit sector gets nearly 31.8%

Grant Writing

GiveSmart

MARCH 20, 2025

Budget: Typical expenses for renting a golf course include booking fees, a green fee per participating golfer, catering, snacks, beverages, golf cart rentals, and, sometimes, a st affing fee. Charity golf tournament software works as a centralized planning system. Given your nonprofit status, try to negotiate down fees and costs.

Fundraising

Wild Apricot

AUGUST 4, 2025

You don’t need a big ad budget to be seen. Cost-Effective Marketing For nonprofits with limited budgets, YouTube offers a lot of value. If you don’t have a TechSoup account, you’ll need to create one and upload some basic documents. It’s a powerful way to boost visibility without spending your own budget.

Nonprofit

Strategic Grants

JULY 17, 2025

The shared challenges Common challenges in the sector include informal or outdated systems, lack of documented processes, and inconsistent knowledge sharing. The good news is that improving operations does not always require large budgets or complex change. Do you have clearly documented processes for key operational activities?

Grants

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

QuickBooks is depreciating the tags functionality in their accounting software starting March 8. If your nonprofit has chosen to use the tagging feature in QuickBooks to help identify your restricted revenue, this means you will be juggling even more spreadsheets outside of your software. There is a better way.

Software

Bonterra

JULY 31, 2025

Running a nonprofit is tough, which is why many organizations turn to nonprofit software to help with management of fundraising, donor relationships, and volunteers. This sort of software can help streamline operations, letting employees spend their time furthering their mission instead of struggling with administrative work.

CRM

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Determining the auction budget. To set an accurate budget for this event, assess past event budgets for similar experiences. To set an accurate budget for this event, assess past event budgets for similar experiences. The characteristics of your planning committee will vary depending on your organization’s size.

Procurement

Blackbaud

MAY 12, 2025

Navigating the budget approval process in nonprofit organizations can sometimes feel like a maze full of frustrating dead ends. By addressing these pain points in the nonprofit budget approval process, you can ensure that financial decisions are made quickly, transparently, and in alignment with organizational goals. Who approves what?

Budget

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

These days, modern fundraising software (like CauseVox) sends an automatic thank you once a donation is processed, and you can customize the content of that email to fit your needs! 4) Annual (Gratitude) Report Many nonprofits and charities compile an annual document that reports budgeting, services, and impact.

CRM

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. Document your flexibility, but use the word “suggested” to allow discretion. And it’s never too early to start.

Policy

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leverage Advanced Data Analytics and Technology Investing in enterprise-grade donor management software and predictive analytics identifies high-potential donors and improves retention metrics. Modern CRM systems enable sophisticated segmentation and personalized communication at scale, dramatically improving fundraising efficiency.

Funding

DoJiggy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Increased Efficiency Using event management software can streamline tedious processes such as ticketing, sponsorship coordination, and communication with supporters. Real-Time Updates: Event software can send reminders to attendees or update them about schedule changes. Pricing models that suit your budget, such as our free option.

Software

Blackbaud

JULY 8, 2025

Today’s software platforms have a number of built-in tools that remove much of that manual work, if you know how to use them. But for organizations already doing more with less, documenting those results often takes time they don’t have. Workflows can be analog or done through software. The average U.S. Someone opens the mail.

AI

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Don't try to worry about digging through because they are very long tax documents and maybe some of you are tax people. It saves so much headache if you're not used to those types of forms and documents. And sometimes the things you have outlined or that you have described are not outlined clearly in your budget.

Instrumentl

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Each of these documents organizes and summarizes your organizations financial data in a different, actionable way to promote improved internal decision-making and external transparency. Internally, this report is most useful for budgeting.

Liability

Blackbaud

JULY 10, 2025

Make sure you keep a detailed record within your accounting software to ensure all FASB guidelines are followed and all conditions are fulfilled. Practicing good document management and adding the gift agreement to the journal entry right away ensures that donor intent is always understood, no matter the time frame on revenue recognition.

Finance

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

And when it's well-documented how to follow the system. It might take some time upfront to figure out, okay, what's the best system here, or time to document the steps or figure out what kind of system you need to use. And then you'll be able to save documents, too.

Instrumentl

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. Document everything for audits.

Policy

Blackbaud

MAY 21, 2025

Budget scenario planning may not be for everyone. If your programs always bring in their budgeted revenue, if your major donors always come through when they say they will, and if you receive every grant you apply for, you dont need budget scenarios. And if it does sound like your organization, please share your secrets!

Budget

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To produce meaningful reports to help you do this, you must track all financial activity and ideally compare it to your budget, or your financial representation of what you think you’ll pursue during the year. Let’s take a closer look at each of these documents and how your nonprofit can compile them.

Liability

Blackbaud

MARCH 7, 2025

We build a budget that is fair, balanced, and built on evidential history, but flexible ready for whatever hiccups and bumps come along. Im sure everyone is mildly familiar with budgeting. Meetings, approvals, and publication of the finalized budget are involved. How do you communicate the change in your plans, your budget?

Budget

Planned Giving

JULY 28, 2025

Why Everyone Needs a Will: It’s Not Just About Money Regardless of your income, age, or family structure, a will is one of the most important legal documents you can create. Preventing Family Conflicts Documenting your wishes clearly can prevent costly legal battles and emotional disputes between family members.

Template

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

Candid

MAY 13, 2021

Manage budgets based on multiple projects. For instance, investing in an automated program, such as expense management software , can help you save time, yield better results, and increase efficiency. This post discusses the signs a nonprofit should consider expense management software. Managers need to approve them.

Software

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

You can always take advantage of the funder information storage features of your grant research funding software. As I like to say, if you can’t get hold of a document in 10 seconds, it is useless to you. As a new grant writer, I always put this information into an Excel spreadsheet.

Strategic Plan

Candid

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This includes creating an annual operating budget , a document that breaks down your organization’s revenue, or the money you’ll bring in, and expenses, or the money going out to cover your costs, for each fiscal year. In this guide, we’ll walk through four essential steps to build an operating budget for your new nonprofit.

Budget

AmpliFund

APRIL 30, 2024

I also highly recommend you view the recording where I take you into our software and explain each section in further detail. Here are 3 ways grant management software supports compliance: 1. You check your email, sort through spreadsheets, rifle through Word documents, but no luck.

Grant Management Software

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

With a fund accounting software system designed for nonprofits, you can fully track all your grants, especially restricted grants, in one place. Fund accounting software can allow you to accurately curate grant reports to track restrictions, set budgets, and audit grant awards.

Indirect Cost

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. A project charter is a brief, formal document that concisely articulates the essential details of the project, such as its purpose, scope, goals, and contributors.

Software

Blackbaud

MAY 27, 2024

It’s budget season, and the spreadsheet chaos has begun. You want to document your process to save yourself valuable time next budget season. You want to be able to easily report on budgets in a variety of accurate, clear ways without too much fuss, and know what was approved versus what’s been modified.

Budget

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Identify a place to store documentation, including applications and relevant policies, in a place where everyone has access, such as within the grant record within your fund accounting software or a cloud storage tool. Make these documents available to all stakeholders so everyone can reference them as needed.

Government

Blackbaud

MAY 3, 2024

Fund accounting software with sub-fund capabilities makes it easy to manage multiple budget scenarios, understand encumbrances, and automate your internal controls for the highest level of accuracy and transparency. With fund accounting software, you get an extra level of control over grant expense tracking and reporting.

Funding