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. Seek out capacity-building opportunities.

Funding

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. Their expertise and connections can be invaluable.

Budget

Blue Avocado

JULY 8, 2025

When too much of a budget hinges on a few sources, the entire mission can be at risk if even one of those sources dries up. Many organizations don’t have a full-time fundraiser or access to modern tools and training. To build more resilience, nonprofits must think beyond traditional grants and government grants.

Nonprofit

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. Evaluation Plan A plan for measuring the project’s success and impact on the community.

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

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). Showcase practices like diverse board recruitment, equity training, inclusive hiring, and antiracism policies—not just program equity outcomes. Create internal AI guidelines.

Grant

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

Economic Empowerment: We need to offer job training, financial literacy, and connections with inclusive employers to improve economic opportunities for LGBTQ+ individuals. Awareness and Education: We need to provide educational resources, workshops, and training to reduce stigma and discrimination, fostering broader societal change.

Mentor

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? A nonprofits budget reflects much more than just the financial health of an organization it also shows your deepest priorities. You want a good volunteer to stick around!

Budget

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Invest in Comprehensive Planned Giving Infrastructure Establishing a strategic planned giving program provides reliable long-term funding streams while appealing to sophisticated major donors. This infrastructure includes dedicated staff training, marketing materials, and legal expertise for complex gift arrangements.

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

This includes narratives, budgets, deadlines, and funder history. Efficiency Powered by AI Yes, Notion  AI helps with first-pass drafts, line-item budgets, and formatting. This service provides comprehensive strategy support and hands-on training, ensuring your team quickly masters and confidently implements the technology.

Readiness

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

These might include: 501(c)(3) nonprofit status Specific geographic areas or populations served Minimum or maximum annual operating budgets Years in operation Required match or cost-sharing Audit history or financial documentation Even one missing element can disqualify your proposal, regardless of how compelling your narrative is.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

Your grant strategy is falling apart because you’re trying to build something strategic on top of a scattered system. This service gives you a fully customized, ready-to-use Grants Hub—plus strategy support and training—so you can skip the setup and dive straight into grant writing. And if you don’t have time to build it yourself?

Grant Writing

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

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Retail

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

EmilyThabes from Beltrami County Historical Society Invest in board training and orientations for better results. I also encourage organizations to invest in board development training. Lisa Palermo from Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County Brief board training boosts understanding and focus at meetings. Relationship building!

Management

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. With the right guidance and training, someone who joined your team as a staff accountant may develop into a strong finance leader.

Finance

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

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Retail

DoJiggy

APRIL 22, 2025

Start planning your next fundraiser today. With a little creativity, strategic planning, and support from online tools like DoJiggy, the possibilities are endless. Dont wait for dues alone to fund your chambers future.

Fundraising

Candid

DECEMBER 20, 2023

You should also have a plan for how to effectively manage your funding, which is where your financial strategy comes into play. In this guide, we’ll walk through four essential steps to build an operating budget for your new nonprofit. Budgeting your revenue based on its source allows you to make the most accurate projections.

Budget

Candid

JANUARY 9, 2025

Yet, we see that many organizations are still quick to limit or cut back technology-related investments of all kinds, including training, evaluation, planning, and community feedback. Organizations need to realize that treating technology as a peripheral expense actually limits mission delivery and effectiveness.

Policy

Grant Training Center

AUGUST 21, 2023

Project Management Abilities: Grant writing often entails creating project plans, budgets, and timelines. This research skill is applicable to various jobs that involve data gathering, analysis, and strategic planning. Financial Literacy: Grant writers often work on budget development and financial projections.

Grant Writing

Grant Writer Team

MAY 23, 2024

Budget: Your writer needs full access to your books in most cases. Without a solid budget in place, no grant application will be a winner. Training and Mentorship: A grant consultant has the opportunity to take a more active role, providing guidance and training to staff on grant writing and management best practices.

Consulting

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Ideally, the Board and Executive Director will work together as partners to lead the nonprofit, especially on the strategic plan, fundraising, and overall evaluation of the organization. Ensure Effective Organizational Planning The Board is responsible for both short-term and long-term strategic planning.

Strategic Plan

Candid

JULY 23, 2024

Their strategies include running communications campaigns to inform communities about elections, training and convening nonprofit partners, providing voter engagement grants, investing in voting infrastructure, and funding research to inform strategy.

Transportation

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. Let's dive in!

Budget

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The training. As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? Look at it this way: If you’re not spending at least 15% of your budget on fundraising, you may be standing in the way of your own success. Fundraising training.

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

Budget

Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

And they frequently study your project budget and look back at the narrative (the main written part of the grant proposal) and the executive summary (the short summary of the proposal and budget that comes first) to see that they are all aligned. Also, use budget narrative—brief explanations—to explain confusing items.

Proposal

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. A good fundraising plan will incorporate what your organization has done in the past: How much money have you raised in recent years? Supports The Budget. Based On History (i.e.

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2023

Our FREE Training Our FREE training video is here to revolutionize your grant writing experience, offering a cutting-edge, AI-empowered approach that will transform your grant writing process. In this FREE training, you will: 1. Then it’s time to click HERE and sign up for our FREE training video.

AI

Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Department of Veterans Affairs Session 12 of the Federal Agency Series Register Now In this session, we will educate the participants in the core mission, principles, and strategic priorities the VA works by, their budget, and what that budget aims to address in national priorities. This training will also be approved for 1.0

Federal Grants

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

ACF – Administration for Children & Families Session 11 of the Federal Agency Series Register Now In this session, we will educate the participants in the core mission, principles, and strategic priorities the ACF works by, their budget, and what that budget aims to address in national priorities. points in Category 1.B

Federal Grants

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

NEA – National Endowment for the Arts Session 10 of the Federal Agency Series Register Now In this session, we will educate the participants in the core mission, principles, and strategic priorities the NEA works by, their budget, and what that budget aims to address in national priorities. CFRE Domains and Tasks: 1.1,

Federal Grants

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. A grant project consists of the actual activities that will help solve the compelling issues in your community identified in your strategic plan and needs assessments.

Grant

Grant Training Center

AUGUST 10, 2020

To develop this culture, institutions should include and encourage this undertaking in its strategic plan, and throughout all areas of the university. Faculty need to be incentivized and encouraged to attend the training, mentoring and other related activities. Coordination between all areas of the institution is essential.

Funding

Greater Giving

AUGUST 27, 2024

This includes accurate budgeting, meticulous financial reporting , and regular audits. Efficient human resource management includes hiring the right talent, providing adequate training, and maintaining high employee morale. Key Areas of Operational Focus Financial Management Robust financial management practices are fundamental.

Strategic Plan

CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

What is a Nonprofit Fundraising Plan? A nonprofit fundraising plan is a document that strategically organizes all of your fundraising activities over a certain period of time (usually one year). If that data isnt available or you are a start-up, look at your estimated budget or check out the stats of similar organizations.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

A child advocacy organization might aim to double the number of volunteers trained to protect children in the court system. Your entire fundraising plan should support your Impact Goal by providing the funding to make it happen. For your annual fundraising plan, you need three goals: 1. When you strive, you thrive.

Fundraising

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

We truly know the organization’s story, from budgets to program outcomes, better than almost anyone.” We are bound to the strategy, outcomes, budgets, and deliverables decided at these meetings. As a grant professional, I bring some specialized expertise to the strategic planning table.” of all the work I do.”

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