Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Provide a Budget : Include a detailed budget that outlines how grant money will be used. Detailed Budget Shows understanding of costs and financial planning. Review Eligibility Criteria : Carefully read the eligibility requirements for each grant. Below is a sample budget template.

Grants

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 29, 2025

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.

IT

Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 27, 2025

In the grant profession, we often emphasize pre-award activities: identifying opportunities, crafting compelling narratives, and submitting competitive proposals. While these are important skills, post-award grant management is equally essential—and increasingly expected of those who serve in the profession.

Award

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofit Grant Proposal Budget Calculations: A Road Map Whats the best way to make your nonprofits budget stand out on a grant application? Finance Once your nonprofit or private foundation is tax-exempt, you never have to deal with the IRS again, right? Your nonprofit got a grant now what?

Budget

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 23, 2025

In these organizations, the grant-seeking process is often a collaborative effort involving multiple staff members. A development director might initiate an application, a program manager might input project details, and a finance officer might submit budget information or financial reports.

Grants

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

In this article, you’ll learn about the different types of audits nonprofit finance teams commonly work on and the most common nonprofit audit mistakes for each, giving you a better understanding of how to avoid these mistakes for your next audit. Not completing a monthly close is a top reason for financial nonprofit audit mistakes.

Finance

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Fundraising Manager Your nonprofit’s fundraising manager or director will oversee all fundraising activities, develop high-level strategies, and ensure that fundraising efforts align with organizational goals. According to Jitasa , grant management is an ongoing process that begins before funding is even secured.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When you start a nonprofit, one of the most important things to figure out is how to manage your organizations finances. Solution: Invest in Dedicated Accounting Software As soon as its feasible given your nonprofits budget, add an accounting platform to your tech stack.

Management

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Keeping this information outside your system requires impeccable spreadsheet management and manual updates. The first thing you should do as a finance professional is audit your spreadsheets because you dont know how adept your people, or predecessors, are at Excel. Do a spreadsheet audit at least once a year.

Software

Blackbaud

JULY 24, 2024

Effective nonprofit financial management is a team effort. Having multiple people working on your organization’s finances helps ensure accuracy—not only by delegating tasks efficiently, but also by allowing for additional review of records and reports. What is this nonprofit doing well when it comes to financial management?

Finance

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 13, 2024

Finding the Perfect Software for Your Nonprofit Ah, grant management! In the vibrant nonprofit world, where grant processes seem to twist and turn like a labyrinth, having the right grant management software isn’t just helpful—it’s a game changer. Why Bother with Grant Management Software?

Grant Management

GiveSmart

MAY 8, 2024

Nonprofits face countless challenges managing financial operations and harnessing full fundraising potential. While working towards accomplishing your organization’s mission, development and finance teams have different timelines and metrics. On average, nonprofit employees spend a third of their day managing data.

Finance

Grant Consulting Services

AUGUST 31, 2023

Because nonprofits rely on grant funding, systems must be in place to properly manage and maintain that funding as part of the grant lifecycle. So, how do we manage grants? What is Grant Management? Three benefits of having a streamlined grant management process are: 1.

Grant Management

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 30, 2024

Indeed, the grant writing team may not realize that, in particular, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has much to contribute to the success of the grant application and the administrative processes that follow. In an ideal world, the M&G rate used on the grant application budget would then be 20% (i.e.,

Applicant

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

You will want to think ahead about being able to easily capture grant information, set up tasks and deadlines, and then run accurate reports at any time. Fund accounting systems with grant management can help you from beginning to end if you are a grant-funded organization—or want to be.

Indirect Cost

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs. There are three primary factors that influence the evaluation budget: program, evaluation design, and reporting/dissemination.

Budget

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

By now, I hope you are realizing grant management doesn’t have to be a scary web of confusing topics and rules. With this grant management series, I aim to outline some of the commonly seen issues and provide resources to learn more. NGMA divides the grant lifecycle into three phases: pre-award, award, and post-award.

Indirect Cost

Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2024

Before agreeing to take on federal funding, your organization should thoroughly understand the financial implications, including how funds will need to be tracked, how staff and contractor time and effort will need to be recorded, what program costs are allowable , and how they will be communicated and tracked with program staff and finance staff.

Grant Readiness

Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2009

Available from TechSoup this week only , Sage Fundraising 50 allows larger organizations to manage donors and events, report results, and increase operational efficiency through an assortment of built-in tools.

Finance

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With these restrictions already noted and documented on your subfund record, you don’t have to worry about manually entering them each year and can run better budgeting scenarios. Manage documentation in the system Grants come with a lot of paperwork.

Software

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

Many workshop attendees admit that two days ago their boss told them to start looking for and writing grants because they needed money for their organization. Typically, the individuals writing and managing grants for your organization are not people with titles like grant administrator, grant manager, or director of grants.

Grants

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

If you’re a frequent TechSoup.org visitor and you use QuickBooks® to manage your organization’s finances (as 70 percent of nonprofits in the U.S. Adding your annual budget. Tracking grants, pledges, and dues. Advanced budgeting by grant/program. Entering your programs. Customizing forms.

Budget

Strategic Grants

AUGUST 20, 2023

Every grant seeker wants to think they are capturing all the funding opportunities relevant to their organisation. It’s the holy grail – every project scheduled for delivery has a corresponding grant program that can fund it, either fully or partially. This was a challenging (tedious!)

Grants

Grant Writer Team

JULY 11, 2024

The amount of salary you budget for the job post can go a long way in choosing qualified candidates who know vital grant writing techniques. Specific nonprofits estimate way too low for salaries of grant writers. Every grant is about having a team.

Grants

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Include an estimated budget and timeline. Inadequate Budget Information A poorly detailed budget can undermine the proposal’s credibility. Be precise and justify all budget line items. Prioritize Key Activities : Focus on essential tasks that align with the grant’s objectives.

Government

Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

The latest version of QuickBooks can help you manage your organization's finances all in one place. Shopify is now open to all budgets! New to TechSoup, the PhilanTech discount program provides online grants management software to eligible nonprofits and charities. But it doesn't have to be!

Telecommunication

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 18, 2024

Guest post by: Jeff Bauknecht | Grants Manager | The Museum of Flight Who decides which grants to pursue or to let pass by? Who determines which projects will receive grant-funded support? I stepped into the CFO’s office and asked if this was in the budget for the next couple of years. It’s that simple.

Grants

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

No Repayment Required : Unlike loans, grants do not need to be paid back, making them a favorable option for financing business initiatives. Opportunity for Growth : Grants can help women-owned enterprises invest in innovative business solutions, expand their services, or enhance their marketing efforts.

Grants

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Since the mid-1990s, GuideStar has been posting publicly viewable information about every IRS-registered nonprofit organization so that prospective donors and grantmakers can see reputable information about each nonprofit's mission, legitimacy, and finances. Having a full GuideStar profile will save you time in your grant applications.

Grant Management Software

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

What is our current budget? What does the nonprofit's chart of accounts currently look like? Is it sufficient? Does the chart use account names that are understandable to all readers? Should we use account names that our funders use? Bring a copy. How does it sync up with the Chart of Accounts? How is payroll processed?

Utilities