Planned Giving

JULY 28, 2025

August may be “Make a Will Month,” but let’s be honest—your legacy deserves more than a single square on the calendar. Usage rights granted to all nonprofits. Longer Version [ DOWNLOAD ] A longer article with intros, explanations, and context — perfect for websites, blogs, newsletters, or outreach to family and friends.

Template

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar , it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan —and stick to it. Year-End Fundraising Campaign Goals Here’s an example of what a year-end fundraising communications calendar can look like before Dec 1: Want this template to create your own year-end fundraising plan?

Calendar

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Fundraising Calendar for 2021. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template. Download your fundraising calendar + goals template below: Fundraising Plan & Goals Worksheet.

Calendar

Pamela Grow

MARCH 10, 2021

Or download this free guide to writing your email welcome. Create a communications calendar for the year, one that includes the dates for your fundraising appeals, your monthly giving asks, your annual report, print newsletters, and more. Download our Annual Fundraising & Marketing Calendar to stay on top of important dates.

Nonprofit

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

JANUARY 14, 2021

Last year many arts and culture nonprofits struggling to cope with closures and restrictions in the wake of COVID-19 were able to take advantage of multiple relief grants and funding, chief among them funds made available through the CARE Act and forgivable loans that were part of the Paycheck Protection Program (known as ‘PPP’).

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 1, 2022

Today I want to share why you need to take the time to track your grant pipeline (and by that I mean all the opportunities you want to apply for, the ones you have applied for, the ones you’ve been awarded, and even the ones you had rejected). with grants. And one of these actions is tracking your grant pipeline. It’s FREE! ?

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GiveSmart

APRIL 17, 2024

While more stable in past years, nonprofits have learned the hard way that donor priorities can shift overnight, making it difficult to rely on regular donations, grants, and fundraising appeals as their main revenue streams. If you’re starting from scratch, download GiveSmart’s Annual Fundraising Calendar.

Calendar

CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s face it: consistent funding is the lifeblood of nonprofit work – without it, we cannot create the impact we want in our communities; and from individual giving to foundation grants and everything in between, there are so many different ways to go about fundraising. Grant writing is a skill, and it’s also a full time job.

Fundraising

Strategic Grants

AUGUST 22, 2024

The research team at Strategic Grants spend hundreds of hours every month reviewing newsletters, funder sites, LinkedIn and many other resources to find funding and grants to enter and update in the Grants Expertise Management System (GEMS) for our for-purpose clients. You can download the paper here.

Finance

Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

My calendar and ‘To Do’ list were written in a notebook. Google Calendar has many rivals in the marketplace, but for meeting the scheduling needs of a busy nonprofit, I can’t imagine a more effective tool. When you accept invitations via email, the meeting gets automatically added to your calendar. With a pen.

Calendar

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

When outlining each fundraiser, use a fundraising calendar to maintain a balance—ensuring enough activities to meet budgetary needs without overstretching your resources. Identify Guaranteed Income: Record the expected income from guaranteed, committed sources such as major gifts , recurring donations , pledges , and grants.

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Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Many platforms you already use for your grantmaking processes have modern APIs built in, such as your grant management solution that surfaces due diligence data from third-party sources within your GMS. You don’t have to download files, upload them to your system, or manually enter data.

Grant Management

Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As we approach 2025, the landscape of grant writing for nonprofits is evolving rapidly. Staying ahead of trends and preparing effectively can make the difference between a successful grant application and a missed opportunity. Understand Emerging Trends in Grant Making 1.1 Develop a Comprehensive Grant Writing Strategy 2.1

Grant Writing

CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

Download Our Free Fundraising Plan & Calendar Template: Why Do You Need a Fundraising Strategy? Download your free nonprofit fundraising and calendar plan here. Bust Out Your Fundraising Plan Calendar Youve written down all of your fundraising plan information in a document.

Fundraising

CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it. Here’s an example of what a year-end fundraising communications calendar can look like before Dec 1: Want this template to create your own year-end fundraising plan?

Fundraising

Strategic Grants

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The research team at Strategic Grants spend hundreds of hours every month reviewing newsletters, funder sites, LinkedIn and many other resources to find funding and grants to update in our Grants Expertise Management System (GEMS), ensuring our clients have a strong pipeline of funding prospects.

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PKS Grants & Accounting Solutions

AUGUST 28, 2020

Grant Prospect Research: Eight Places to Look Author: Judy Riffle, Ed.D This sage advice applies to grant prospect research also. When researching and making a fundraising plan of attack, a grant calendar should be created and updated regularly. So, for the first step of research, where do you look for grants?

Grant

Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Detailed activity calendar. A calendar of fundraising activities, including grant deadlines, newsletter send-out dates, and warm touches for donors will get you on the path to raising all the money you need to fully fund your programs. Does my nonprofit’s website direct donors to a really nice “Thank You!”

Fundraising

Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ready to download the template? Download Template. It’s a good idea to put together an annual fundraising calendar to include with the plan that details when things are happening and who is responsible for making them happen. Here you go! What is an annual fundraising plan (also known as a nonprofit strategic plan)?

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Your fundraising plan should include a detailed activities calendar showing all the various ways you plan to generate funds during the year. Use the 3 steps below and the 1-Page Fundraising Plan template you can download at the end of the article to get started. So skip grants until you reach year 3 or 4 and are grant ready.

Template

Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Pursuing grants is hard work. Grants are time-consuming, very competitive, and after all the time, money, and energy spent writing grants, there is no guarantee that your nonprofit will be awarded. Some of my clients specifically block time on their calendars for this purpose. Tell me something new."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

It's a good tool for managing email, calendars, and tasks in the office setting. As your email archive grows, it gets tougher and tougher to search, and pretty soon you can't remember whether you agreed to attend a conference or not, or who said to do what in a grant proposal. Send Calendars and Screenshots Within an Email.

Calendar

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

" Successful grantseekers adore consistency, at least when it comes to developing a grant strategy, maintaining a grantseeking calendar, and gathering and polishing the basic documents for grant writing. Older Organizations Seek and Get More Grants. Private Foundation Grants. Community Foundation Grants.

Grantstation

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For example, you can expand the Calendar tile so it shows all of your meetings for the day. For example, if you're writing a grant proposal, but need to refer to the grant's Website, you can "snap" Internet Explorer 11 side-by-side with Word. You've probably read that you can download the Windows 8.1

Calendar

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

Small to mid-sized nonprofits:rather than hiring your fifth development director in three years, consider outsourcing your creative and/or grants, freeing up your fundraisers time for growing relationships. Download your free 2025 Fundraising Calendar for the tools and strategies to see your mission through any crisis!

AI

CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

To make it easy, download a copy of our fundraising plan template for guidance. Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. I’m referring to individual donations , corporate partnerships , events , grants , and online campaigns.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

It's that establishing realistic objectives for your grants program is always a bit of a guessing game. Most organizational leaders ask themselves these questions when projecting grant support: Who is most likely to fund my organization? What is a reasonable level of grant support to expect for my organization?

Grantstation

iGrantWriters

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Awards will be made as grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and inter- or intra-agency transfers, depending on the nature of the work proposed, the proposing organization, and/or program requirements. to download the text of the call. 8 Lunar Data Analysis (.PDF)â?? 1 Planetary Science Research Program Overview (.PDF)â??

Contract

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Last spring, Google made our entire search histories available for download and viewing. There are a few different ways to view or download your Google search history, but viewing it online directly in your Google account is the easiest to understand. Steps to Download Your Google Search History. What were you doing at 1:35 p.m.

Calendar

CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Get A Matching Grant One of the top-performing GivingTuesday fundraising ideas and best practices is having a matching gift in place. Last year, they raised over $50,000 — twice their goal — with the help of a $15,000 matching grant challenge donated by their board of directors.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

MARCH 28, 2022

Download our free eBook, the Big Book of Hybrid and Virtual Event Ideas, to find out! Download the Corporate Sponsorship Cheat Sheet and templates and get ready to reach out to local businesses and major corporations alike with confidence! Apply for nonprofit grants. How to search for grants. Grant writing.

Nonprofit

Grant'd

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Today is a big day in the world of grants. Many grant writers will have woken up to a notification on their calendars marking the release of Perpetual Impact Funding’s 2021 round and will be hoping to put their best foot forward in their applications to secure funding through this renowned grant program.

Funding

CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not only that, but with the move to more and more online giving (there was a 32% increase in online revenue in 2020), events like #GivingTuesday have become an even more important part of your fundraising calendar. Download your #GivingTuesday planning guide. Choosing Your Fundraising Approach. Campaign Page.

Goals

CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Even if you aren’t using social media for fundraising purposes, you will still want to get your fans and followers to take a bigger step with you – to sign up for an advocacy action, to download a research paper, or to join your membership. This helps you raise more by converting more donors + educating donors so they give again.

Fundraising

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 3, 2022

These tools consist of spreadsheets, tables, lists, calendars, and shared workspaces on SharePoint or Microsoft Teams to collect, organize, summarize, and track all the materials relevant to the application. Step 1: Find the Opportunity and Download the Soliciation. Find the opportunity on grants.

Proposal

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Free Resource Get Your Board on Board Toolkit Download Now Bringing It Together: Why Your Board’s Participation Is So Crucial No matter if your organization is a regional food bank, a housing nonprofit, or an independent school , your board’s responsibilities are defined by three main legal fiduciary duties: care, loyalty, and obedience.

Strategic Plan

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Traditional fundraising like grant writing and major donor relations require significant investments of time and effort. If you’d like to add a peer to peer initiative to your fundraising calendar, but don’t have the time or resources for a full, organization-run campaign, consider creating opportunities for DIY fundraisers.

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