Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alex Dunn, CFRE, is a grant consultant who founded the company Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates to help busy nonprofits save time and money while maximizing their grant funding. Alex has won more than $100 million in grant funding for her clients, and she uses this expertise to guide her work with each nonprofit client.

Consulting

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Its two weeks before a federal grant deadline , and you just learned about the opportunity and that you are eligible to apply for grant funding. Before you know it, its been months since anyone has applied for any funding. When new funding opportunities come along, they often dont have the additional bandwidth to pursue them.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JANUARY 10, 2025

The traditional one-year grant cycle has created a funding hamster wheel that often keeps grantees heads-down on applications to avoid a gap in revenue. The growth of trust-based philanthropy principles with multi-year, unrestricted funds is starting to shift organizations from that scarcity mindset to one of abundance.

Award

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alex Dunn, CFRE , is a grant consultant who founded the company Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates to help busy nonprofits save time and money while maximizing their grant funding. Alex has won more than $100 million in grant funding for her clients, and she uses this expertise to guide her work with each nonprofit client.

Consulting

GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The end of the calendar year is around the corner—the single biggest fundraising opportunity of the year! Be sure to also plan to promote a matching fund towards the end of your giving campaign to ensure you reach your goal. Donor Data Analysis Is Key Make real-time campaign decisions to maximize giving and participation.

Donation

Wild Apricot

JULY 16, 2025

This Facebook help article for nonprofits shows you exactly how to get started with Facebook and Instagram ads to increase awareness of your organization and raise funds for your cause. Read more: Write the BEST Nonprofit Mission Statement: 15 Examples + Free Template 2. Get nonprofit branding tips here. and decide how often to post.

Media

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In the last few weeks of the year, ensure your final 2024 submissions are on time, needed funds are requested, and reports are in order. How did your team respond to changes in the grant profession, such as the new Uniform Guidance for federal funds? A Plan for 2025 What is on your calendar as you look forward to the new year?

GPCI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Even seasoned grant writers make grant proposal errors, but small changes can be the difference between a funded project and a missed opportunity. Why It Matters Funder alignment is a top decision factor: Reviewers want to fund projects that advance their mission. The good news? Most of these common grant proposal errors are fixable.

Proposal

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2025

For better or worse, your budget can make or break your chances of funding, despite the quality of the grant narrative itself. When the budget doesn’t align with the story you’re telling—or worse, contradicts it—it sends a clear message to reviewers: this organization may not be ready to manage grant funding effectively.

Budget

The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 17, 2025

Planning events is essential for nonprofits, whether youre raising funds, building awareness, or forging new community connections. Utilize Budgeting Tools: Consider using budgeting templates or software designed for nonprofits. Crowdfunding platforms can also help you raise funds in advance.

Budget

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. And if your grant calendar lives in one place, your tasks in another, your drafts in a hidden folder, and your funder research on sticky notes… of course, your strategy is falling apart.

AI

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. Most funders don’t allow grant funds to pay for grant writing expenses. Organizations might have to return all awarded money plus penalties.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

In the AI Grants Hub™ , everything is already built: your organizational documents are linked, your proposal templates are searchable, and your writing assistant already knows your tone and funder history. You’ll get a fully customized grants system, tailored to your programs, funding strategy, and team needs.

Grant Writing

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Cost efficiency: Analyze the return on investment (ROI) by dividing net profit by total expenses, which helps determine how effectively funds were utilized. Suggestions for Actionable Improvements Strengthen communication: Use tools like shared calendars and group chats to keep everyone informed.

Fundraising

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

Consider how a small environmental nonprofit transformed its future with just three bequests in its first year of planned giving: these gifts secured enough funding to protect 250 acres of critical habitat in perpetuity. Yet, many nonprofits hesitate to launch their own planned giving program, assuming they lack the expertise or resources.

Policy

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

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

She has helped nonprofits triple their funding. She has helped nonprofits triple their funding and over 2,100 students have taken her grant writing courses. They may say, yeah, we fund anywhere in the US. I've had that happen before and we ended up getting funding because I evaluated all these factors.

Instrumentl

Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

Nonprofit event management software streamlines event planning, logistics, and execution, letting you focus on furthering your mission or successfully raising funds through your event , instead of manual event tasks. Share on the calendar, assign event teams, and stay aware of signups and attendance. Reviews Ease of use 4.2

Software

GiveSmart

APRIL 2, 2025

Offset Federal Funding Freezes While optimism is ever present among nonprofits, the federal funding freezes have a catastrophic, far-reaching impact. Were also bringing you more examples of others finding success during this time and offering dozens of free templates and other resources to help your organization power its mission.

Federal Grants

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

She has helped nonprofits triple their funding. She has helped nonprofits triple their funding and over thousands of students have taken her grant writing courses, and she also happens to host the Grant Writing Simplified podcast. Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts. That saves a ton of time. I love that.

Instrumentl

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For example, this template highlights the four stages of the volunteer lifecycle, along with your nonprofit’s objectives at each stage and strategies for improving the volunteer experience. You can also create a volunteer management calendar to help you stay organized. What is a volunteer management plan?

Management

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. Fundraising Calendar for 2021. You should be able to pick up these templates and start working with them right away.

Calendar

CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A fundraising calendar can help you streamline this process so you can raise more with less effort. This is where a fundraising calendar comes in handy. Every organization that relies on fundraising to operate should consider incorporating a fundraising calendar into their yearly plan. Always focus on what works best for you.

Calendar

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

What you might not know is that the right fundraising plan template can make the job much easier. In the beginning you may self-fund your fledgling organization. And unless you’re independently wealthy with an endless revenue stream, you can’t self-fund forever (nor should you – more on that in a minute). Many founders do.)

Template

RBW Strategy

MAY 14, 2024

Outcome For over five years, RBW Strategy and Cornerstone Montgomery have worked side by side on private and public grant opportunities, leading to millions in additional funding each year for the organization.

SAMHSA

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome.

Software

CauseVox

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we get started fundraising in 2023, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan and a clear road map that is designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your current goals and desired destination for your organization. Free downloadable fundraising calendar and goals template.

Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

You can use a logic model template if previously provided as part of the funding process you are planning for, or you can use a generic template to translate at the time of application, like the one available in our Logic Model Guide. Learn more here. Learn more about that 30 minute FREE session here.

Logic Model

GrantNews

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Sadly, however, there are also many individuals looking to cheat honest people with fake grant funding. Once submitted, your proposal still needs to undergo a review by the funding source, in what is often a highly competitive process. Is the Funding Source Well-Known? Especially when it comes to searching for grants.

Grant

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

So, let’s get your nonprofit email newsletter right so it makes your donors feel good and helps you build the loyal donor base you need to fully fund your mission. These tools are affordable, easy to use, and have great templates you can customize for your nonprofit. Your newsletter’s audience Who you should sent your newsletter to?

Template

GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While #GivingTuesday and end-of-year appeals might feel far away, the busiest time of the giving calendar is just around the corner. Now is the time to finalize your strategy, make your plans, and create your messaging templates. Donors are paying attention, and many are looking at their spending for the rest of the calendar year.

Calendar

CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

It involves the buy-in of multiple stakeholders such as your staff and board members, and maps out a path forward as you raise funds. Download Our Free Fundraising Plan & Calendar Template: Why Do You Need a Fundraising Strategy? Problems such as an economic downturn or changes in federal funding can arise at any time.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

If you want to raise enough money to fully fund your programs, you need to use more than one tool. 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.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Or the search for the perfect template. And your plan will give you a reality check to hold back when you are tempted to barrel ahead with a new program before you have fully figured out the funding for it. Your entire fundraising plan should support your Impact Goal by providing the funding to make it happen. Or enough data.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

In other words, you have no format, no template, and no idea where to start. But if you want to fully fund your nonprofit, you simply must have a plan. If you depend on only one source for funding, you will put your organization’s future at risk. Create a calendar of Asks. I’ve been there. Then move onto other things.

Fundraising

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.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Things like conversations with coworkers that last longer than they need to, writing the same email over and over instead of using a template, and meetings that don’t start or end on time can steal time from your day that you can never get back. Time-block your week with an online calendar. Lazy time is not unproductive time.

Fundraising