Ann Green's Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

You’ll create strategic plans, brainstorm new projects and programs, and organize campaigns to raise the necessary funds to execute your ideas. One important but sometimes overlooked step in future planning is ensuring proper nonprofit financial management. Chief financial officer (CFO).

Finance

Blackbaud

JANUARY 13, 2025

Why Organizations Should Experiment with Revenue Diversity Even when your revenue channels are strong, nonprofits should always be experimenting with their funding models. Review your strategic plan to ensure the new revenue stream fits within your organizational objectives.

Finance

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

However, proper financial oversight is critical to make the most of those vital funds. Effective grant management goes beyond tracking funds in your CRM its also about budgeting effectively, prioritizing programs that need financial support, and delivering timely reports to grantmakers. Focus on funding gaps.

Finance

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

They provide essential funding that helps these organizations execute their missions, develop programs, and serve their communities. Here is a breakdown of how grants impact nonprofit organizations: Impact Area Description Financial Stability Grants offer critical funding to sustain and grow operations.

Funding

Candid

JUNE 5, 2025

Building a nonprofit budget can be intimidating, not only for new projects or organizations but for all nonprofits when the fundraising outlook is uncertain. Yet, a challenging environment makes developing a strong, credible budget even more important. Here’s how to get started: The basics of building a nonprofit budget.

Budget

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The purpose of grants is to fund projects, research, or programs that fulfill specific community needs or advance particular fields of study and innovation. Grant funding can be designated for multiple purposes, such as supporting social initiatives, enhancing educational opportunities, or promoting research and development.

Grant Writing

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Understanding its significance can equip organizations with the necessary knowledge to secure funding and effectively empower their causes. Local grants provide critical funding that can address these gaps. Engaging with local grant funds is an effective step towards achieving mission-driven goals and fostering community improvement.

Grants

Strategic Grants

MAY 18, 2025

In fact, it should be part of your strategic planning to keep track of your organisation’s volunteer input. Calls for more government support Volunteering has been overlooked in the latest Federal Budget with no new measures for the volunteering ecosystem.

Strategic Plan

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Regardless of the pricing model, it’s essential to note that paying a grant writer based on a percentage of awarded funds is both unethical and prohibited by industry standards. Each structure offers unique advantages based on an organization’s needs and budget constraints.

Grants

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 23, 2024

After a tremendous team effort, the donor successfully transferred his entire ownership into a donor advised fund (DAF) on December 30. It simply is not inspirational for a charity to declare that they must have more resources in the next few weeks to meet their budget. Needless to say, this created an “all hands-on deck” moment.

Liability

Center for Major Gifts

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

While there are all kinds of advice floating around about methods to cultivate major donors, much of it is advanced and focuses on well-established organizations trying to grow already sizeable endowment funds. You can build your relationship further by following the strategic plan formed by the board of directors.

Goals

The Grantsmanship Center

APRIL 23, 2025

Category: Government Funding Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Political changes can lead to changes in laws, policies, and rules. Regarding government-funded programs, nonprofit leaders are or may be facing tough decisions. Are you able to bridge the gap until additional funding is secured?

Federal Grants

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 23, 2025

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Funding

Blue Avocado

JULY 8, 2025

These organizations face many common challenges like securing sustainable funding, managing volunteer engagement, and navigating internal dynamics that can hinder their vital work. This dependence can create a precarious financial position, especially when funding priorities shift or economic conditions tighten.

Nonprofit

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

Across the nonprofit sector, countless small nonprofits and grassroots organizations do life-changing work with limited staff, tight budgets, and never enough daily hours. But applying for every opportunity is a fast track to burnout, not funding. Budget Justifications & Templates: Most grants require breaking down your numbers.

Grant Writing

Get Fully Funded

MAY 11, 2025

Economic uncertainty can feel like uncharted territory, especially for small nonprofits that operate on tight budgets and unwavering dedication to their missions. The good news is that challenging times bring opportunities to plan smarter, strengthen strategies, and deepen your impact. Be proactive!

Budget

Just Write Grants

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For many nonprofits, corporate grants can provide essential funding to support their programs and initiatives. Heres a guide to help your nonprofit secure corporate funding effectively. Establishing a rapport before submitting a grant proposal increases your chances of securing funding. Looking for more grant writing insights?

Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

With public funding in flux, private foundations shifting priorities, and technology changing how proposals are crafted and reviewed, nonprofits need way more than strong writing to stay competitive. While originally centered around principles like unrestricted funding and reduced administrative burden, this approach has evolved.

Grants

DonorSnap

JULY 9, 2025

Short-Term vs Long-Term Planning Most nonprofits will have a yearly fundraising plan that outlines their communications for the year ahead. However, this should fit into a larger long-term plan, that looks further, often 5-10 years. Many refer to these as strategic plans. These are often called Strategic Plans.

Fundraising

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? Income inequality has forced nonprofits to rely more and more on the wealthy to fund their efforts to fight climate change. Explore the realities and challenges of food insecurity.

Budget

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

To maximize our impact, the Cherry Fund will expand our fundraising methods, strengthen our partnerships, and engage new audiences through innovative and transparent practices. Paul Marengo from the The Cherry Fund Securing funding for vital international projects.

Mentor

NonProfit PRO

JULY 30, 2025

With Bonterra DonorDrive, nonprofits already see a 154% increase in funds raised per campaign. The new feature makes it dramatically easier for nonprofits to raise more money, expand reach, and save time by sharing fundraising campaigns directly into social feeds, all with built-in donate buttons and real-time tracking. rail-container).hide();

Retail

NonProfit PRO

JULY 14, 2025

Even with strong performance data, questions about staffing, budget and planning could stand in the way of getting a texting program off the ground. ‘It’s Not in the Budget.’ ’ If your current budget is tight, consider reallocating funds from underperforming digital channels.

Retail

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 27, 2025

nonprofits rely on government grants, but these vital funds are increasingly at risk due to federal budget cuts. Acting as a tireless assistant with human oversight, nonprofits can automate the search process by using this technology to scan thousands of funding sources, expanding their capacity to find relevant opportunities.

AI

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

#NonprofitFunding TWEETABLE INSIGHT Tweet The Critical Role of Planned Giving in Ensuring Nonprofit Longevity Nonprofits that embrace comprehensive planned giving strategies and robust long-term funding models are gaining unprecedented favor among foundations. Stories beat tax code every time.

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Trust-based giving replaces rigid reporting and earmarked restrictions with multi-year, unrestricted support, on the belief that nonprofits know best how to use their funding. People are calling for reparative giving, community-controlled funds, and funding models that serve movements, not egos. It may cost you funding.

Readiness

NonProfit PRO

JULY 21, 2025

Despite widespread concerns for potential federal budget cuts and funding instability, 63% of nonprofit professionals remain optimistic about their organizations future. Collaboration Leads the Way Forward Amid funding ambiguity, many organizations are pivoting their current strategies to prepare for the year ahead.

Retail

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 24, 2025

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Retail

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

The pressure to pursue every funding opportunity can feel overwhelming, especially in today’s environment of shrinking public resources and steep competition for private grants. Nonprofits often operate under the mindset that more applications = more chances of funding. But here’s the truth: not all grants are worth your time.

Grants

NonProfit PRO

JULY 10, 2025

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Retail

Blue Avocado

APRIL 1, 2025

Community Engagement is a relatively new field of study within public administration and is newly emerging as a best practice for city planning processes, research, and development of social interventions. These are examples of community engagement. We compensate every single person for every single activity they engage in.

Ethics

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

Scattered deadlines, disjointed documents, and disconnected systems make it nearly impossible to stay on top of funding opportunities strategically. This is especially true for those on small teams or managing grants alongside a dozen other responsibilities.

AI

DoJiggy

JULY 29, 2025

This article provides you with a variety of tested and innovative strategies to help your Key Club raise funds. Planning successful fundraisers requires clear objectives, effective promotion strategies, and wise budgeting to maximize engagement and financial outcomes. Looking for Key Club fundraising ideas that work?

Fundraising

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

Have well-used, and thoughtfully created guiding documents, such as bylaws, policies, strategic plans, values, mission and vision statements, etc. If it’s not in the strategic plan, that will help reign in rogue ideas and projects you don’t have capacity for at the moment.

Management

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 25, 2025

Daffodils infrastructure leverages donor-advised funds, a rapidly-growing option for todays givers, as an easy solution to help navigate the tax advantages of giving with scaling impact. The views expressed within may not directly reflect the thoughts or opinions of the staff of NonProfit PRO. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("pid",

Retail

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A world-class finance team will do all that and be a key part of your strategic planning, helping you identify opportunities and risks based on past performance and future scenario planning. Providing view-only access to your fund accounting dashboards allows board members to acclimate to nonprofit financials.

Finance

DoJiggy

APRIL 22, 2025

Each of these fundraising ideas for Chambers of Commerce provides a chance to engage local businesses and the broader community while raising funds for programming and operations. Golf tournaments are ideal for networking and raising significant funds for your Chamber through entry fees, silent auctions, and tournament sponsorships.

Fundraising