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Grant Distribution Best Practices: 5 Tips for Funders

Blackbaud

Consider recommending methods, like electronic transfers over paper checks, to help speed up the process. Establish Clear Internal Controls for Grant Distribution Any time you have funds moving to or from your organization, its important to have clearand if possible, automated internal controls to provide transparency and mitigate risk.

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In it to Win It: Building the Grants Audit-Planning Team

Grant Professionals Association

Every grant professional will face an audit at some point, whether it’s part of the annual nonprofit tax filing or a formal public grant audit from years past. Often, the finance department handles the process, leaving grant managers unaware until after the fact. Does it clearly explain why each budget item is necessary?

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How to Kickoff Your Federal Grant Project

RBW Strategy

This is a privilege, but also requires diligence, planning, and solid recordkeeping to ensure that you follow the federal requirements as indicated in The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s Uniform Grant Guidance, or 2 CFR 200, plus any other federal, state or local agency requirements. The same goes for grant management.

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Best Practices for Creating New Opportunities with a Grants Management System

AmpliFund

We know many grant makers publish new funding opportunities in the spring, and using purpose-built tools to create and manage them saves organizations a lot of time and effort. Grants management software like AmpliFund gives you unlimited application forms, sections, and questions that you can use to build out applications.

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Line up your ducks! 5 Ways to Keep On Track in Post-award Grant Phase

Grant Professionals Association

Managing a grant can feel like trying to untangle a string of holiday lights, and keeping things organized—tasks, reports, closeout, etc.—is Whether you keep paper copies for each grant, or you store everything electronically, keeping those files organized is important. plus the specific sections the file includes.

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How The James Irvine Foundation Received Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

driven grants management. Jeff: To meet the requirements of an all-digital workflow goal, we needed a software product to manage the implementation of several projects, such as a new grants management system. After looking at online project management tools, we chose Microsoft Project 2010.