Ann Green's Nonprofit

MARCH 17, 2025

Put together a communications calendar to help you with this. Right now were dealing with cuts in federal funding, tariffs, a plunging stock market, etc, which are creating constant chaos for us. Both your nonprofit and your donors may be feeling financially strained. You dont want to lose your donors right now. Obviously, we can do better.

CRM

Clairification

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Approach this with a learning mindset, vowing to find at least one thing youll do a bit differently (if not today, then tomorrow; save the idea and put it on your calendar so youre sure to revisit it at the appropriate time). Sharing creates connection, possibility and energy. So, what holds us back? It might feel safer to focus on scarcity.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

Create an annual grants calendar that shows: Priority funders Application deadlines Target ask amounts Estimated notification dates This transforms you from a grant chaser to a grants strategist. It also helps leadership understand that not all grants are created equal. They want to know: Whats happening, why it matters, and what comes next.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

Or calendar invites and stern reminder emails. If you’ve been in the grant-writing game for more than five minutes, you already know the real bottleneck isnt your writing skills. Its chasing down late or lousy input from your own teammates. And while it feels personal, its not. Its systemicand surprisingly fixable. Theyre just busy.

Grant Writing

GrantNews

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

After you have located grants of interest, the next step is to organize your calendar. Grant-seekers can schedule grant applications by adding the grant of interest to their Grants Calendar. Securing funding is vital for critical programs to flourish. It is important to frequently apply for grants.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 6, 2025

Once they find grants of interest, they can add them to their personalized Grants Calendar, ensuring they never miss an important deadline. With over 13 million female-led businesses in the U.S., accounting for about 42% of all businesses nationwide, that’s no small feat! The power of businesses is clear since they generate over $3.9

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 27, 2025

If your organization doesnt have a monthly/recurring giving program or its fairly small, why is that? Whether youre a big or a smaller organization or your fundraising went well last year or it didnt, monthly giving makes so much sense (or cents). In short, you need to go all in on monthly giving. Political candidates do it all the time.

Donation

The Fundraiser Coach

MARCH 30, 2025

In today’s landscape, with economic uncertainty causing some donors to hesitate or take more time for considering larger major gifts, building connection isn’t simply a “warm fuzzy.” ” It’s actually your strategic advantage. And before there’s trust, there must be connection. More alumni called back to talk.

Metrics

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JUNE 30, 2025

For this post, I’m assuming your fiscal year is the same as the calendar year. The midpoint of the year is a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. If you’re on a different fiscal cycle, you can make the appropriate time adjustments. Your fundraising revenue may be down. Always have a plan.

Goals

Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2025

Later on, when your nonprofit has the time and resources, you can expand your website by adding other important pages like the ones below: History Our Team Financials Events/Calendar Resources/Blog Online Shop Your cause may also impact the additional pages you should add or build. Create all the important pages you need.

Engineering

GrantNews

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For example, grant-seekers use the Grants Calendar to schedule grant application submissions. Keenan , an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School Donor-Centric Strategies Boost Donations Determining a nonprofits value is done by calculating its social impact. Nonprofits are an integral part of their community.

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Blackbaud

MAY 1, 2025

By leveraging these straightforward yet impactful approaches, nonprofits can better understand their strengths, address weaknesses, seize opportunities, enhance supporter engagement, and grow their impact. In fact, your SWOT analysis should evolve with you. It should highlight the problem being addressed, the solution, and the impact of the work.

Fundraising

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 23, 2025

These days, I have regular Chapter meetings on my calendar and in-person meetups to look forward to. *Please note it will be helpful to read the following with a bit of Garden State swagger. How many us started our careers because we were volun-told? This is when you imagine me waving my hand obnoxiously high in the air!) Just saying.

IT

Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 8, 2025

the tax year, the school year, or the calendar year. For example: Tax season Back to school season The 4th of July Each of these seasons is set according to a specific timeline—i.e. Is there a “season” for grants? Not really. The tricky thing with grant funding is that funders do not work on one universal timeline.

Applicant

Pamela Grow

JUNE 19, 2025

Make it a 10-minute agenda item at your next staff meeting Schedule monthly story collection as a recurring calendar item Share one story from your existing work to start building the habit Remember, your donors didn’t give to your organization because of your programs or services. We need them by Wednesday!”

Template

CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Aside from the normal holiday hullabaloo, you’re also busy planning fundraisers and engagement opportunities to round out your organization’s calendar year. As fundraisers, you’re also in charge of putting together end-of-year giving campaigns for your nonprofit. This year-end, spice it up with a phone-a-thon.

Goals

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Many funders announce their grant cycles well in advance, so you can start building a calendar of deadlines for the coming year. Look beyond your usual sources and explore new foundations or government agencies that align with your mission. Grant success isn’t just about submitting applications; it’s about building relationships.

Grant

GrantNews

JANUARY 15, 2025

Use the GrantWatch Grant Calendar: Stay organized with your personalized Grant Calendar and manage multiple applications effectively. You found a grant and written your proposal! You’ve submitted your application. You’re finished. Now, you wait. You’ll find that the answer to this question depends on each funder.

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Grant Writer Team

MAY 1, 2025

Establish Your Grant Calendar – After grants of interest are located, the next step is to organize your calendar. Use the GrantWatch Calendar to organize your grant pipeline. However, if you apply a mission-forward strategy to your grant research, you will secure viable funding. What is Grant Cycle Management?

Management

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 23, 2024

He was facing a significant tax liability if he didn’t get this completed before the calendar rolled into January. This allowed him the complete deduction in that calendar year. Needless to say, this created an “all hands-on deck” moment. That is a year-end giving story worth remembering.

Liability

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 13, 2025

Go one step further and create a fundraising calendar , as well. Happy New Year!Its Its hard to believe its already 2025. I hope 2024 was a successful year for your nonprofit organization. If it wasnt, you can work to make 2025 a better year. And if you were successful, you want that to continue. Your nonprofit should do the same.

Calendar

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

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. But let’s be clear: while a calendar is helpful, it isn’t a grant strategy. Most nonprofit teams utilize these kinds of tools to get started.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This is why its important to create a grant calendar that pre-plans each grants application deadline, reporting schedule, required documentation, and any contingencies. Your calendar should lay out activities, costs, expected income, deadlines, and other notable events month-by-month.

Finance

CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By now, GivingTuesday has become a fixture on nonprofit calendars, inspiring generosity worldwide. It’s a day when donors, businesses, and communities come together to create positive change—and it’s also the perfect launchpad for your year-end fundraising efforts. Here’s how to do it. Consistency is key.

Fundraising

CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2025

But heres the good news: 2025 can be the perfect year to strengthen your donor retention with clear goals , a well-thought-out fundraising calendar , a killer fundraising campaign and a refined donor retention strategy to help you keep your supporters year-round. Its officially 2025! Youre saving money by improving your donor retention.

Retainer

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By the 2023 calendar year-end, the Dow was 13.7% Market performance varied significantly during the 18-month period analyzed and documented in the report, resulting in different giving patterns between DAF sponsors that report on a fiscal year ending June 30 versus those that report on a calendar year ending December 31.

Calendar

GrantNews

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Develop a Social Media Calendar Consistency is key. A Nonprofit Social Media calendar helps you plan content in advance, ensuring you post regularly. Is your nonprofit struggling to grow its social media following? Nonprofit Social Media can be challenging, especially if you’re not tech-savvy.

Media

GrantNews

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Grant-seekers can then add the grant of interest to their Grants Calendar. In addition, the database also has a number of features that facilitate these professional relationships like access to 990 reports , full RFPs, donor contact information, and more to foster sustainable donor-centric practices.

Grant

Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2025

In the end, securing that first meeting isn’t just about getting on someone’s calendar—it’s about beginning a meaningful relationship that benefits both the donor and your mission. . “In the 90s, you’d tell people about a project you were planning and people would ask, ‘How much do you need?’”

Fundraising

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2025

You likely already have the due dates in your calendar – use this time to connect with relevant stakeholders on the grant’s status. Often seen as just another thing we must do for the money – required grant reports are not typically a treasured task among grant professionals. Okay, okay it sounds wacky, I know.

Grant

Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The client felt confident putting the funder on their own grant calendar for the upcoming year, allowing me to focus my time on another funding priority because they were sure that the foundation would continue its support. Despite my recommendation, the client did not want to approve any research time for current funders.

GPC

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Build a Social Media Campaign Calendar: Get access to a downloadable campaign calendar template tailored for year-end fundraising. Create Engaging Content: Discover the types of posts that resonate most during fundraising seasons and how to craft messages that inspire action.

Media

GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The end of the calendar year is around the corner—the single biggest fundraising opportunity of the year! This guide will show you how to create a year-end fundraising campaign that will effectively reach the hearts and wallets of donors during this spike in end-of-year donations. Donating should be quick and easy!

Donation

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

A weak statement of need will cast doubt on your proposal’s relevance and impact. When need statements miss the mark, proposals often linger in the “maybe” pile or get passed over entirely. Why It Matters Funders are risk-averse. They want to invest in solutions for pressing problems. Data offers credibility. Emotion builds connection.

Proposal

Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For many nonprofits, a live or silent auction is the pinnacle of their fundraising event calendar. Auctions have the potential to generate significant revenue for your mission and keep supporters coming back year after year—if you take steps to engage participants effectively.

Procurement

Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Solution To manage time constraints effectively: Develop a Grant Calendar : Create a detailed calendar with deadlines, submission requirements, and timelines for each grant application. Grant writing is a critical component of nonprofit fundraising, but it often comes with its own set of challenges.

Grant Writing

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Continually test your websites forms and CTA buttons, update your CMS, run frequent security checks, and keep timely site elements like your blog and events calendar up-to-date. Use these strategies to increase marketing-qualified leads: 1. Optimize your newsletter CTAs.

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