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Kickstart Your Consultancy: Key Conference Takeaways to Launch the New Year

Grant Professionals Association

In this article, Ill reflect on three conferences I attended in 2024 (apart from GrantSummit ) and offer several takeaways that aim to help grant consultants thrive. From these conferences, recurring themes emerged that resonated with me, including teamwork, clarity, scalability, and preventing burnout. We see our needs being met.

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The 3 Keys to Successful Major Donor Outreach

Joe Garecht Fundraising

Ive heard fundraisers echo arbitrary rules that they heard from a conference speaker as if they were proven facts, when the opposite was true. They have a moves management schedule in place, and they stick to it, reaching out to current donors regularly. The rules of successful fundraising arent always intuitive.

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Donor-Centric Tips: Do Your Donors Share Your Passion?

GrantNews

Above all, increase your real-world impact by implementing donor-centric management. Donor-Centric Management Defined If a donor shows an interest in your nonprofit or small business, it may be safe to assume they share a passion for your mission. Donor-centric management or donor stewardship is nurturing your connection with donors.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Leadership Approach

Blackbaud

For instance, middle management might meet with direct reports once a week, whereas upper management hosts monthly all-hands meetings to discuss workplace-wide updates with everyone. Mutual trust between leaders and employees is built on communication. Provide leadership and employees with several official communication channels.

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Pre- and Post-Award is like PB&J

RBW Strategy

It is critical to have those partnerships in place to understand how you will manage your relationships with contractors and subrecipients, and their respective role(s) in the administration of the federal grant. What internal controls do you have in place related to the management of grant funding?

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Yes, the GrantSummit is Still Relevant to Me, a Grant Professional of over 20 Years!

Grant Professionals Association

Do the grant activities I regularly engage in match in relevant ways to others at the conference? In fact, this year’s conference had even more for me as an advanced practitioner working in the full grant lifecycle than ever before. Will I find enough sessions which teach me new concepts? Will I meet people who are new to me?

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What megadonors miss about health-focused nonprofits 

Candid

These organizations have well-established community networks, proven success at designing and implementing programs that increase health care access and create healthier communities, and the organizational infrastructures needed to manage resources effectively. technology and think tank conferences on diverse topics).