Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 13, 2025

Doing More with Less Budget constraints and economic pressures are forcing organizations to stretch their resources. This begins with defining your metrics of success before the project even starts. If your organization lacks expertise in grant-seeking, consider consulting professionals or training staff to bolster your efforts.

Grant

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Capacity Building Grants can provide resources for training, staffing, and development, enhancing the organization’s overall capability to fulfill its mission. This involves strategic budgeting and financial planning, as well as implementing thorough reporting and accountability measures.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Key practices include setting clear objectives, analyzing metrics, and celebrating successes to foster accountability andmorale. Quantify results: Use metrics like satisfaction scores, participation rates, and budget comparisons to identify patterns. Identify trends: Look for recurring issues or standout successes.

Fundraising

Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 2, 2025

Realistic, Approved Budgets When you submit your budgets, whether for a program, a capital campaign, or your organization, make sure that your use of funds is clear, explainable, and reasonably allocated. Including impressive evaluation metrics also helps, as does developing relationships with funders outside of grant cycles.

Grant Writing

Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

NTENs Nonprofit Digital Investment Report notes 45% of nonprofits indicated they werent spending enough on technology, citing lack of budget (77%), lack of funder support (47%) and lack of donor support (38%). With small budgets come small staffs juggling multiple priorities.

Funding

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Year to Date As you review the year so far, review your metrics to illustrate the excellent work you and your team completed. In addition to the successes, thoughtful consideration of the challenges faced can help you gain insights into areas where you need more training or different systems to ensure smoother grant processes.

GPCI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Did they include stronger metrics or more compelling storytelling? Include milestones for internal review, feedback, budget revisions, and final polishing. Update DEI framing and metrics Many funders expect clear demographic data and transparent discussion of equity efforts. Tip: Link training back to your active grant calendar.

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Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Working with your program and development teams, your finance staff identifies funding gaps, supplies important budget numbers, sets up projects in your accounting software, establishes spending approvals, and creates reporting schedules. Address budget variances and determine how you will spend any remaining funds according to grant terms.

Government

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Capacity Building Grants often fund training and development efforts, helping organizations to grow and improve their services. Budget Details how funding should be allocated. Budget A detailed account of the financial resources needed, including direct and indirect costs. Objectives Outlines the goals the grant aims to achieve.

Grant Writing

GrantNews

JANUARY 2, 2025

For example, you can apply for grants to fund equality training for your team. In truth, tracking metrics like donor retention, return per acquisition, and volunteer engagement helps teams increases productivity, optimize their marketing budget and more. To illustrate, now may be the time to evaluate your organizational culture.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

Go beyond metrics to show what you’ve learned and how you adapt your programs. Clarify what AI can draft (like boilerplate sections or budget rationales) and what must stay human-led (like personal stories or your theory of change). Budget data, program outcomes, and stories live across your org, not just in development.

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Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2025

Mitigate this risk by training your team to handle data and follow privacy compliance laws. For instance, you might have your staff take a data security training course and then test them by sending an example phishing email. Individuals who fall for the phishing email would then be signed up for additional training.

Management

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

These funds may be used for training staff, improving technology, or developing strategic plans. Budget A clear, itemized budget outlining how funds will be used efficiently. Be Realistic : Set achievable goals and present a realistic budget.

Funding

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Evaluation Plan : A strategy for assessing the success of the project, including metrics to measure impact. Budgeting and Financial Reporting Accurate budgeting and financial reporting are vital components of grant writing. A detailed budget outlines how funds will be allocated and ensures transparency and accountability.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Staff training and development: Provides for the ongoing education and professional growth of nurses, doctors, and other medical personnel. Direct service delivery: Funds the core programs that provide food, shelter, counseling, job training, or crisis intervention.

Donation

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Narrative change challenges the outdated idea that impact must be quantified in sterile metrics. This includes narratives, budgets, deadlines, and funder history. Here’s how: Integrated Narrative + Storytelling Your Standard Grant Narrative lives inside the Hub—tagged with your programs, impact metrics, and community voices.

Readiness

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This infrastructure includes dedicated staff training, marketing materials, and legal expertise for complex gift arrangements. Leverage Advanced Data Analytics and Technology Investing in enterprise-grade donor management software and predictive analytics identifies high-potential donors and improves retention metrics.

Funding

CauseVox

JULY 1, 2025

For small or midsize nonprofits, that can stretch your budget thin. Training your team to use both efficiently takes time and energy, especially if staff turnover is high or roles overlap. Real-Time Analytics : Monitor campaign performance, donor retention, and engagement metrics without switching tools.

CRM

Planned Giving

APRIL 17, 2025

Whos going to train, manage, and feed them? 43 We dont need to track metrics. Maybe they can Snapchat your budget deficit. Because asking strangers for pennies will surely stabilize the budget. Then enjoy the mediocrity of trying to please everyone. And congrats for joining the safest group in the world. Delusion No.

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DoJiggy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Learning Curve Another concern is the time required to train staff on new tools. Pricing models that suit your budget, such as our free option. Be prepared to answer questions about costs, training, and security. Monitor and Optimize Track key metrics during and after your event to measure the technologys impact.

Software

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

Email Marketing This is a fine way to reach mass audiences on a budget. There is no precise formula on how many messages you should leave after getting no response. At a minimum, you should wait a few days before calling again. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic", setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

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Retail

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Find Your Next Grant 17K Live Grants on Instrumentl 150+ Grants Added Weekly Try Instrumentl free for 14 days Step Up Your Systems for Success: How to Simplify, Streamline and Support Your Team - Grant Training Transcription Will: Hello, everyone. Another benefit is that it allows you to hire and train support. What kind of program?

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Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Practices may lose income due to small inefficiencies, outdated systems, or missed opportunities to engage and retain patients, even while sticking to an existing budget. In addition to these strategies, train your front desk and clinical staff to consistently use empathetic communication techniques.

Insurance

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 14, 2023

I knew I would love the conversation the second I learned she attended Dr. Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead training, but I didn’t know that Julie had her own experiences that I related to. I called the officer, discussed the issue, put together a needed budget amendment, and got permission from the funder – who told us to get moving.

Grant Writing

Just Write Grants

JUNE 30, 2023

Most nonprofit professionals would agree that's child's play compared to managing a nonprofit's grant budget. I'm sharing seven practical and actionable strategies to maximize your grant budget, ensuring each dollar works towards fostering positive transformation. Establish clear metrics and benchmarks to gauge progress and impact.

Budget

Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. If your organization’s annual budget is less than $1 million, make the tone of your mission statement as positive as possible. We also downloaded their IRS Form 990s?from Study 1: How sad is your nonprofit mission statement?

Donation

The NonProfit Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

NCOA President & CEO Ramsey Alwin said the “mysterious process” was about six months in the making, having received a request to share information about its work, mission and social impact metrics. “We We didn’t know where it was coming from,” she said in a Zoom interview with The NonProfit Times today.

Metrics

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Goals and Metrics What does success look like? Document the specific goals you plan to accomplish, including any key performance metrics (KPIs) you’ll use to measure success. For your fund accounting implementation , your goals might include a target launch date, staff training, and the ability to pull relevant reports faster.

Software

GrantNews

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Considering that most nonprofits seeking grant funding have limited budgets, it is vital to their fundraising goals to ensure that they are utilizing their resources as efficiently as possible to ensure their best possible chances of success. The metrics and criteria section details the anticipated impact of the project’s goals.

LOI

The Fundraising Coach

JUNE 15, 2021

A thoroughly developed plan is based upon history, supports the budget and financial needs, and lays out aspirations for stretch goals. Ideally your budget will be based on the same information, particularly on your key metrics – and it’s absolutely critical that fundraising be at the table and part of the budgeting discussion.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

JULY 5, 2024

Budget constraints: In-person events tend to require a large budget; however, sponsors and exhibitors can help offset the cost. You might need to conduct training sessions beforehand to prepare your staff and volunteers for a smooth event experience. Hybrid events could add the cost of technical equipment to in-person costs.

Conference

Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Next, consider what audience learnings you can surface using your nonprofit’s marketing analytics, such as email engagement metrics, website traffic measures, and social media performance. Ask yourself: Do you have the budget and bandwidth to invest into this project?

Nonprofit

Candid

MARCH 25, 2024

One of the first things you need to do, then, is to detail your expenses in a budget and determine what is eligible for grant funding. Not only do you need to explain what you’ve accomplished, you also need to provide metrics and/or anecdotal evidence that your programs are making a difference.

Grant Readiness

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 22, 2024

What you do as a successful individual giving officer is, sit in front of a blinking cursor and a screen full of empty boxes that ask for outcome metrics. There are attachment upload buttons for unasked-for resumes, not-yet-created project budgets, and audits that must live somewhere.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2016

The most effective dashboard solutions are intuitive and visually dynamic; they present an accessible real-time look into a range of metrics. The board can access specific goals, updates on revenue and key performance indicators (KPIs), and a range of metrics related to progress toward longer-term goals. Train Diligently.

Metrics

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. Lead a Revenue-Wise Strategy Session As a financial leader, you touch all areas of your nonprofit organization through budgeting, forecasting, and expense management. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful.

Indirect Cost