Center for Major Gifts

JANUARY 25, 2025

Stage #3: Solicitation When youre ready to solicit a major gift, craft an ask or proposal that aligns with the donors interests and demonstrated capacity. Have relevant materials to address these questions, whether its a detailed budget breakdown or stories of tangible program results.

Management

Just Write Grants

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Establishing a rapport before submitting a grant proposal increases your chances of securing funding. If your nonprofit provides opportunities for employee engagement, highlight these in your grant proposal. Craft a Compelling Grant Proposal Your proposal should be clear, concise, and tailored to the corporate funder.

Grant

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Learn how to create compelling proposals, effectively present your schools needs, and build lasting partnerships to support your students success. Below, you will find step-by-step guidance on creating a sponsorship proposal, presenting your cause effectively, and maintaining relationships that benefit your school over the longterm.

Fundraising

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Some organizations additionally have a social media manager, volunteer coordinator, or data analyst. Large nonprofits with large fundraising teams may have the budget to hire a full-time grant writer; however, the process to hire a grant writer often takes more than 6 months from start to finish. What is a grant consultant?

Consulting

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Some organizations additionally have a social media manager, volunteer coordinator, or data analyst. Large nonprofits with large fundraising teams may have the budget to hire a full-time grant writer; however, the process to hire a grant writer often takes more than 6 months from start to finish. What is a grant consultant?

Consulting

GrantNews

JULY 23, 2025

10 Foundations with Budgets Over $1 Million 1. Applications are accepted year-round, though proposals are reviewed annually. Eligible activities include coalition building, grassroots organizing, polling, and media outreach, especially during the critical final stages of a campaign. 40,000 Grants for Medical Research U.S.

Nonprofit

Center for Major Gifts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Occasionally they are involved in advancing the organization through outreach, grant and proposal writing, bookkeeping, and other administrative tasks. This important role, especially in small nonprofit organizations, can help to push the mission and vision of the organization further.

Nonprofit

DoJiggy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Enhanced Marketing: Use email campaigns, social media integrations, and analytics tools to maximize your events reach and ticket sales. Pricing models that suit your budget, such as our free option. Propose the Solution: Introduce the technology youve researched and its benefits.

Software

Greater Giving

JULY 16, 2025

Whether your nonprofit wants to obtain more funding to address overhead costs , increase its budget for a fundraising event, or simply deliver higher-quality programs to beneficiaries, sponsorships can bring the support you need. in response to your proposal. Offer Creative Ways to Sponsor Your Nonprofit.

Proposal

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Further ideas: If you have a bigger budget, invite a guest performersuch as a local musicianto perform alongside the children, drawing community members who dont have kids at theschool. Marketing tip: Provide updates on social media, showing the runners training progress or the students practicelaps. advertising, community goodwill).

Fundraising

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It seems that during almost every election, the media tells us some version of “this is most important election of our lifetime.” We sat in stunned silence as this dude ticked off the many proposed budget cuts to federal discretionary grant programs (our “mother’s milk”). What happened?

Grant

DoJiggy

MARCH 4, 2025

Social media platforms are among the most powerful and easy ways to reach a broad audience. Utilizing hashtags and encouraging students to share the event on their social media accounts can further expand reach and visibility. In addition to social media, traditional marketing methods should not be overlooked.

Fundraising

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

For some reason, whether it be some requirement that they had to be a certain type of organization or a certain budget or serve a certain population, it's like, oh, okay. And then when you do that, tag them on social media, funders love to be recognized. The 44 that have some sort of reference to the exact phrase of access.

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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

Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

Proposal

Grants.gov

JULY 9, 2019

The budget narrative – sometimes called the budget justification or budget detail – can also benefit from a skilled wordsmith. What follows are budget narrative writing tips that have been curated from a wide range of federal agency resources. What Is a Budget Narrative?

Budget Narrative

Candid

JANUARY 31, 2024

Here are some ways you can leverage Candid’s resources for professional development—regardless of time and budget constraints. Our Get Started YouTube playlist offers a shortlist of videos on fundraising and proposal writing—all under three minutes. For example, short videos are a great way to learn quickly.

Proposal Writing

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.

Letter Of Inquiry

Millionaire Grant Lady

JUNE 5, 2024

Create a headline, title, or social media post very quickly. If you already have a text you are working from and need to create a short piece of writing based on this longer text, you can copy and paste in the long text and ask AI to create headlines, titles, or social media posts for the text. AI uses predictive text.

AI

Grant Writer Team

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

When putting together a grant proposal, you may think you need an entirely new piece of writing. However, many grant applications share common requirements, which makes reusing parts of a past grant proposal a worthwhile idea. Do: Review the quality of the writing in the initial grant proposal. This is a mistake.

Proposal

Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2023

How to write a winning grant proposal by Stephen Robertson of Candid Ranking in the top spot: Writing grant proposals. Breaking down its typical sections, this blog offers a step-by-step roadmap for how to craft a winning project proposal. In this blog, Lori discusses what to do after a grant proposal gets rejected.

Burnout

Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

Raise your visibility online and beyond Effective fundraising requires more than providing meaningful programming and presenting a well-written grant proposal. Next, use your social media channels to make stronger connections with current and potential funders. Here are some steps to get started. Keep the lines of communication open.

Fundraising

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Investing your time, effort, and resources into writing a grant proposal can be frustrating if it doesn’t pay off. For this reason, it’s critical to make your grant proposal impactful and notable to a selection committee. Here are some ways to make your grant proposal stand out.

Applicant

Candid

JANUARY 17, 2024

That’s why we freely share our expertise with the sector through a variety of channels: Live and on-demand trainings : Learn about a range of topics from starting a nonprofit to proposal writing, management, governance, sustainability, and transparency.

Letter Of Inquiry

Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

Modern uses of AI, such as machine learning, include understanding text, recognizing people and objects in images, and figuring out who you might know on social media platforms. Generating first drafts of grant proposals. As these technologies mature, so do their applications. Here’s a sneak peek into what awaits.

AI

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 22, 2023

33 Perfect Exercise Captions for Instagram by Julian Lavelle, Blackbaud A single, successful social media post can drive major traffic to your exercise-for-a-cause. Take a look at 10 troubling observations of the state of fundraising today and how to ensure you have a strategy to counter them. Be sure you’re looking for these 9 things.

Budget

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We develop proposals that demonstrate what is going on and how we can help, usually within a minimal character count within an online portal that was not meant for grant applications. (No I saw a quote the other day on social media (attributed to an anonymous poster with the initials m.h.) No stress there.) Then we do it again.

Grant

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2021

You need a budget. If you’re a business, and you don’t have an audience, a brand, a budget, and a marketing plan, you can’t sell your products or services. So to figure that out, you’d start with a market study proving there are people living around and driving by the proposed donut shop who would want to buy donuts.

Policies Procedures

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As your finance team is preparing for year-end, with prepping reports and making sure your budget is on track, your donor development and fundraising teams are hard at work, too. Some questions every member of your team can ask themselves include: How are you progressing to budget? You presented the problem and your proposed solutions.

Retainer

Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 13, 2023

Here’s a breakdown of things to consider and prepare before submitting your first proposal. This messaging can form essential parts of your proposals, so be sure it’s something you feel confident repeating and expanding upon. Are your budgets up to date? RESOURCES: Get Your Ducks in a Row. Are your materials in order?

Grant Readiness

Just Write Grants

AUGUST 21, 2024

Crafting a Compelling Grant Proposal 1. Demonstrate Alignment with Funders’ Values Tailor your grant proposal to reflect how your organization’s mission aligns with the values and goals of the funder. Outline a Detailed Budget Provide a clear and detailed budget for your project. Building Relationships with Funders 1.

Grant

Just Write Grants

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Many corporations allocate remaining budgets or ramp up philanthropic efforts during this season. Tailor Your Proposal Corporations receive numerous funding requests, so its essential to make your proposal stand out by aligning it with their goals. The end of the calendar year is a critical time for nonprofits seeking funding.

Letter Of Intent

Peak Proposals

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Follow grantmakers on social media. Many grantmakers are active on social media, where they often announce new grant opportunities. To find grantmakers on social media, search for their names or keywords like "grantmaker" or "foundation." This is a great way to stay up-to-date on new grant opportunities.

Grant

GrantNews

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

From writing a grant proposal to completing the budget, grant management encompasses all aspects of receiving and tracking grant funds. Furthermore, utilize this opportunity to promote your organization on social media by announcing your grant award. What is Grant Management? Most nonprofits rely on grant funding.

Grant Management

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Through our work in grant development, we’ve met many faculty members who have not received training on how to find funding or write grant proposals. What Are You Proposing: Is It a Research Project, Or Could It Be a Project with an Evaluation Component? Features of Project Proposal vs. a Research Proposal c.

Funding

Just Write Grants

JULY 25, 2023

A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Vendor RFPs for Nonprofit Professionals and Grant Writers At some point, nonprofit organizations and grant writers will encounter the often daunting task of creating or responding to a Request for Proposal (RFP). What is an RFP, and Why it Matters?

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2021

Through this partnership, we hope to help [Company Name] make the most of your corporate philanthropy budget while ensuring your employees maximize the impact of their gifts to our cause. If [Company Name] is excited by this proposal, please reach out to us at [contact information]. Please reach out to us at [contact information].

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