Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

Begin with : Bequests Beneficiary designations Life insurance IRA rollovers Then grow into real estate, complex trusts, and life income gifts. Document your flexibility, but use the word “suggested” to allow discretion. 8 Formalize Your Program With Tools and Systems advanced Don’t overbuild too soon.

Policy

Big Fundraising Ideas

MAY 13, 2025

Professional Development: Attending conferences and workshops or obtaining certifications helps the school nurse stay current with best practices and expands the scope of practice, benefiting the entire school community. Logistics: This requires coordination with local businesses to secure participation and discounts.

Fundraising

Grant Writer Team

JULY 31, 2025

Build Your Portfolio Even if you’re just starting, create sample proposals, volunteer with small nonprofits, or rewrite old grant templates. Network with nonprofit professionals, join forums, attend virtual conferences. Focus on sectors you’re passionate about, like education, health, environment, or the arts.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

APRIL 7, 2025

Budget submissions can fall by the wayside when competing with midterms and parent conferences, causing delays and incomplete data. For example, your process should outline the template your departments should use, explaining that the formatting makes it easier to upload to your fund accounting system.

Budget

Wild Apricot

JULY 23, 2025

Why Use an Event Budget Template It seems as though events season is always upon us. Having one ambiguous budget for an event can get messy quickly without a template to follow for each aspect of the event. Utilize these templates and modify them for your organization’s events. Sticking to an event budget.

Template

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

It offers live and on-demand webinars, recorded sessions from GPA conferences, and exclusive virtual events. I have found it helpful to peruse GrantZone for posts of interest to me, but I have searched for templates, forms, and more. GrantSummit Scholarships – offers scholarships for conference registration only.

GPC

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 1, 2023

Alex Dunn, the Millionaire Grant Lady, has been selected to present at the this year’s Association of Fundraising Professionals Dallas Fort Worth Philanthropy in Action Conference on June 16 th. This is the southwest’s largest and most prestigious regional conference of fundraising professionals.

Conference

Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Donation request letter example 12 fundraising letter templates What is a donation request letter? Based on your needs, you can adapt this formatting to the various letter templates in the next section. This template can be referenced for any type of fundraising effort. Well cover: What is a donation request letter?

Template

OneCause

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Invest in your personal growth and join 700+ nonprofit professionals in San Antonio, TX for the annual Raise conference!

Template

Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Social media and email marketing resources and templates can help you transform your mass communications into personalized donor engagements. Bloomerang Guides & Template s. Check out Bloomerang’s resource library for different guides and templates. Enhanced outreach. Qgiv Resources. Qgiv Resources. Nonprofit Library.

Nonprofit

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Download your Virtual Fundraising Planning Guide and Template: Here are our top 23 ideas for virtual fundraising ideas : 1. After NTEN had to cancel their annual conference, they set up a crowdfunding page where people could still donate to help cover lost revenue from the conference. Virtual Conference (aka UnConference).

Fundraising

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Here’s your #GivingTuesday & Year-End Fundraising Resource Package: Access Our Free Library Of #GivingTuesday & Year-End Fundraising Tools, Blog Posts, Webinars, and Conferences On-Demand: 1. Download Our Free 2021 Year-End Fundraising Calendar.

Fundraising

OneCause

AUGUST 2, 2023

Learn more peer-to-peer fundraising tips and insights: Join the Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Roundtable on September 12th at the 2023 OneCause Raise conference. The next might include some simple steps and templates to help them start fundraising with friends and family. Learn more. Move participants from registrants to fundraisers.

Retainer

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

My first project on Springpad was planning TechSoup for Libraries' booth at the upcoming Public Library Association conference. You can also use Springpad to build itineraries for conferences or offsite meetings with your transportation and accommodation information. This is especially useful for work projects or meeting notes.

Onenote

Strategic Grants

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Ideally this plan is based on a template you can tailor for each new funder, and is either complimentary to, or includes, your acquittal reporting plan. A great way to keep on top of this is to create a stewardship plan as soon as a grant has been confirmed. 2024 marks 15 years of Strategic Grants.

Grants

Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2010

Shawn joined Microsoft's Sarah Barnhart to demonstrate the freshly launched Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for Nonprofits at the recent NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference.

CRM

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 11, 2024

Access Exclusive Resources : Get access to valuable resources, templates, and tips that are not available elsewhere. Professional Associations : Organizations such as the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) offer memberships that include access to exclusive resources, conferences, and certification programs.

Grant Writing

Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

Templates for meetings, white papers, and responses to common press inquiries Resource lists Staff contact lists Answers to frequently asked questions and how-tos Three Scenarios Where Your Nonprofit Could Leverage Slab Below are three scenarios where you could use Slab to facilitate staff training and share frequently referenced materials.

Management

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2021

Host Zoom or conference calls with all your donors to talk them through your organization’s next campaign. Regular conference calls or Zoom meetings with your donors can really go a long way to help build donor confidence and long-term, consistent giving. And do this in things that aren’t fundraising appeals.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Libraries often have conference rooms you can reserve. Your Board members might have access to a conference room through their employers. Build in time to share a meal to create an atmosphere of camaraderie. Pick a location that is convenient and comfortable.

Strategic Plan

Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

You can search for contact information right on your phone (great if you think you’re at the wrong address), and show off your organization’s website to people you meet at conferences and events. The Full Details. An "app" is a small piece of software with limited functionality.

Donation

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 3, 2024

Lately, it seems I can hardly open a newsletter, attend a training, or look at a conference schedule without seeing the word AI popping up everywhere. Our services range from total grant management to customized templates that your grant writing team can use as a guide to create your own compelling grant proposals.

AI

Just Write Grants

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Speed-date potential funders: Attend funding fairs and conferences to connect with program officers face-to-face. Bonus Round Create a grant proposal template: Develop a basic template with essential sections and formatting. Sharpen your proposal writing skills and grant research techniques.

Grant Management

Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Conference apps help organize virtual conference events, offering features like schedule management and attendee networking. What we love about Constant Contact Constant Contact provides a large selection of well-crafted email templates tailored for nonprofit use. 5 Fundraising Event Planning Tips [With Template].

Software

Community Boost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In August, I attended Community Boost’s Online Radical Impact Conference. share their experiences with year-end giving strategy as well as the folks at Giving Tuesday (GT) (the organization that tracks GT metrics and has TONS of templates and tips to help you effectively participate), I have some gold to share. It was so good!

Conference

Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

On April 16-18, 2023, 3,600+ fundraising professionals descended on New Orleans, LA for AFP ICON’s 63 rd annual conference, the largest turnout in six years. Networking and Inspiration Outside of the sessions, the conference was riddled with networking opportunities. AFP ICON also hosted two inspirational general sessions.

Conference

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Words are everything in fundraising. Your success is found in the strength of your nonprofit storytelling. The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. Again, words matter. You’ve probably heard this already – that storytelling is important. But do you really understand it?

Donation

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Will I be seeing you at the 2018 Engage for Good Conference where the gold and silver award winners are announced? Hubspot shows you how to create an infographic in under an hour and offers 15 free templates. Of course, the consumer donation/crowdfunding category is always my fave.?? Register soon to get the early bird price!

Award

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

CauseVox’s Year-End Fundraising Fair was a mini-conference featuring 16+curated sessions with a big impact on year-end fundraising. During the session “Crush Your Year-End Fundraising in the New Normal,” nonprofit consultant Pamela Grow provides a template for effectively running your year-end fundraising campaign.

Fundraising

Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

PEAK Grantmaking’s “Reimagining Philanthropy” conference in March exploring these themes was a fitting setting for a session Candid organized about advancing systems change via data collaboration at scale.

Demographics

Qgiv

JUNE 25, 2021

You’ll want to: Choose the perfect keyword Persuade constituents to opt into receiving messages Create targeted lists for outbound text messaging Send the right kinds of texts at the right times (psst: check out our text templates for nonprofits !) Check out our text messaging templates for nonprofits! Looking for inspiration?

Fundraising

DoJiggy

APRIL 16, 2024

Whether you’re orchestrating a special event fundraiser, conference, or corporate gathering, these free event planning tools offer a plethora of features to streamline the process. Choose tools that allow for customization in their templates, enabling you to tailor layouts to suit your event’s unique requirements and branding.

Software

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you need a template to get you started, I created one that you can check out for free by clicking here. She enjoys one-on-one coaching, hosting workshops for groups, and presenting conference sessions across the country to help organizations reach their marketing and communications goals.

Media

California Grants Portal

MAY 4, 2022

The Center for Nonprofit Management offers seminars, certificate programs, special events and an annual conference to introduce best practices for managing people, projects and organizations.

Grants

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Download your Virtual Fundraising Planning Guide and Template: 5. Some options could be: Panel discussions with experts Breakout sessions or other educational sessions Virtual classes Webinars Virtual tours Virtual conference. Games Tournament. Teams can register to compete in different challenges with the top scorers winning a prize!

Fundraising

Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

One attendee ran a conference with 150 people over it. There are lots of articles on the web with lists of other great free design tools, including stock photos and infographic templates — here's one example. Zoom offers high-quality hangouts, desktop sharing with chats, and breakout rooms. Web Analytics.

Calendar

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

Create an anchor/connection: build trust with the person by sharing how you know their company, have used their products or services, shared their content, attended the same conference, etc. A cold outreach email template with a 1 out of 3 success rate! For example, show how their content compelled you to act in some way.

Nonprofit