DoJiggy

JANUARY 10, 2025

Download Our Free Golf Tournament Budget Template The sample fundraising tournament budget template here includes a profit/loss summary to help you visually compare income and expenses so your organization can be aware of your breaking point and profitability margin. Does your event require permits or event insurance?

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Bonterra

JULY 30, 2025

To reach their goals, MDA needed a modern, integrated platform to power all fundraising efforts without relying on outside consultants. The organization relied on third-party consultants to manage multiple peer-to-peer programs, individual giving, and DIY fundraising initiatives.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JULY 30, 2025

If you’re unsure about the best strategy, create a gift acceptance policy and consult with a nonprofit finance advisor to ensure alignment with your organization’s financial strategy and risk tolerance. These typically include treasury bills, short-term CDARs, money market accounts, and mutual funds.

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Provide clear justifications: Briefly explain each line item (e.g., “$3,000 for evaluation consultant at 30 hours @$100/hr”). Want more support, templates, and training to help you avoid these errors from the start? Ensure accuracy and completeness: Check all math, totals, and formatting.

Proposal

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2025

Consult with finance staff or partners early. Mistake: Using an Outdated Budget Template Reusing templates from previous grant proposals can be a huge time-saver— if the information is still accurate. This will help you understand the program’s scope and feasibility. Use the budget to clarify program structure.

Budget

Blackbaud

APRIL 21, 2025

For this reason, nonprofits often seek expertise from external consultants and vendors. An RFP is a formal document that outlines your organizations needs, expectations, budget, and selection criteria when hiring vendors or consultants for a task. Its uncommon for nonprofit organizations to have a comprehensive skillset in-house.

Proposal

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Common project fees include: Writing proposals for new programs: $2,500-$6,000 Creating template grant proposals that work for different funders: $3,000-$6,000 Managing complex federal grants: $7,000-$10,000 Project fees usually come with payment milestones. Many consultants set minimum retainer amounts between $1,500 and $3,000 per month.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As organizations explore these funding options, they may also be interested in the resources available for grant writing templates to effectively present their needs and objectives. Refer to effective resources such as grant writing templates. For assistance in developing these components, consider using grant writing templates.

Funding

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Wrong estimates can jeopardize funding. Their expertise can enhance the quality and precision of budget proposals.

Budget

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. Your narrative and budget templates evolve with every proposal. With the correct setup, it’s as intuitive as completing a form.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

MAY 19, 2025

The Executive Director whose husband is a cybersecurity consultant and can identify any potential issues with the organizations data collection. For example, imagine your organization needs to hire a consultant to clean up your CRM data. The external reviewer who volunteers for the nonprofit that applied for the grant hes helping with.

Policy

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

If a donor gets a bland, templated acknowledgment a week later, what does that tell them? They’re raising their hand and saying, “I believe in you. I believe in this work. I want to be part of it.” ” What happens in the hours and days after that gift is crucial. That their gift went into a machine. rail-container).hide();

Retail

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2025

Understanding Grant Writer Burnout Over the last ten years of business, working with tens of thousands of nonprofit leaders, staff members, and consultants, we’ve seen firsthand how quickly enthusiasm can be replaced by exhaustion. We’re a team of practicing grant consultants, writers, and educators.

Burnout

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 21, 2025

Your Grant Writing Foundation The Standard Grant Narrative isn’t just a generic template — it’s a carefully developed, customized foundational document that captures the essence of your nonprofit’s mission, programs, and impact. The standard narrative serves as your go-to resource whenever a new funding opportunity arises.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

Thats where a Grant Writing Toolkit comes ina collection of reusable content, data, and templates that make the grant writing process faster, smoother, and less overwhelming. Grant Proposal Templates: Standardized responses to common funder questions, like program outcomes, sustainability plans, and partnerships.

Grant Writing

Gail Perry Group

JULY 9, 2025

That’s why one of the first things we tackle in our Major Gift Officer Bootcamp and our consulting work is portfolio discipline. Or, they are dealing with overstuffed portfolios full of suspects, not true gift prospects. An important strategy we are recommending for 2025 is to organize prospects by timing and priority.

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

For so many nonprofit professionals and grant writing consultants, the issue isn’t a lack of intention. If you’re a grant writing consultant, it’s buying you a one-way ticket to Grant Writer Burnout Land — a place you definitely don’t want to visit. If your grant strategy feels more chaotic than coordinated, you’re in the right place.

AI

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl team Instrumentl is the all-in-one grant management tool for nonprofits and consultants who want to find and win more grants without the stress of juggling grant work through disparate tools and sticky notes. Engage, build bonds, showcase impact, and elevate conversations effortlessly. Subscribe below.

Instrumentl

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Why Most Grant Writing Practices Have Stalled Many nonprofits and even consultants are still writing grants like it’s 2005. But here’s the difference: it draws from your real content , not generic templates. It may cost you funding. And that’s not a dig; it’s an observation grounded in reality.

Readiness

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl team Instrumentl is the all-in-one grant management tool for nonprofits and consultants who want to find and win more grants without the stress of juggling grant work through disparate tools and sticky notes. Engage, build bonds, showcase impact, and elevate conversations effortlessly. Subscribe below.

Instrumentl

GiveSmart

APRIL 2, 2025

Our fundraising team is already including more consultation time with every GiveSmart contract to best support our partners. 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

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

Accelerated Campaign Creation: Constant Contacts AI-powered platform creates turnkey marketing campaigns in minutes, including recommended copy, imagery, email templates, and an ideal communication schedule for each element of the campaign. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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Planned Giving

APRIL 22, 2025

Amending your trust involves a few straightforward steps: Obtain an Amendment Form: You can find templates online or request one from an estate planning attorney. Consulting an estate planning attorney can provide clarity and ensure that your modifications are appropriately handled. Do I need an attorney to amend my trust?

Consulting

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Nicole was asking: she's a consultant, and she was asking if she should create multiple accounts per client, or if you can have multiple missions under one account. So we have some consultants who will have their non-profits create their own accounts. That saves a ton of time. Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts.

Instrumentl

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

GROWTH: Unlimited organization-wide monthly webinars and live Q&A workshop, access to tools, templates, and training for scaling nonprofit growth. The views expressed within may not directly reflect the thoughts or opinions of the staff of NonProfit PRO. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("pid",

Retail

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Add “Risk and Adaptation” Language to Templates Demonstrate that your organization is aware of the external funding climate and actively planning in response to it. Use case examples or short vignettes to humanize the consequences of defunding. Focus on resilience and possibility, but don’t gloss over urgency or vulnerability.

Federal Grants

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Compile Data in a Financial Statement Template After compiling your data, organize it into the proper financial statements using the explanation of each statement discussed in this guide. Keep in mind that even with a template, your nonprofit will need to customize its financial statements to match your unique data.

Liability

Planned Giving

JULY 28, 2025

Whether you’re starting with an online template or working with a professional, taking this step ensures your loved ones have clear guidance during an emotional time. Many people successfully use online templates or will-making services to draft their own wills. Can I write my own will without a lawyer?

Template

Planned Giving

JUNE 23, 2025

Will templates offer an affordable, straightforward, and accessible solution for drafting your will. Legality of a Will Made with a Template Regardless of whether you draft your will independently or with a lawyer, it must meet certain legal requirements to be valid. Is a Will Template Right for You?

Template

Planned Giving

JULY 10, 2025

While it’s possible to create a will without a lawyer, especially with the availability of online templates and resources, consulting a lawyer is advisable if you have a large or complex estate. Choosing a reliable and trustworthy person for this role is crucial. Do I need a lawyer to create a will?

Pass-Through

Gail Perry Group

MAY 23, 2024

In addition, we’ve created an AI prompt which incorporates the best practices outlined in our Killer Thank You Letter Template. Here’s how to use this template: Take the bolded text below, and add your customized donor information in the brackets. Use this template and let us know how it works for you and your team!

AI

Gail Perry Group

MAY 23, 2024

In addition, we’ve created an AI prompt which incorporates the best practices outlined in our Killer Thank You Letter Template. Here’s how to use this template: Take the green text below, and add your customized donor information in the brackets. Use this template and let us know how it works for you and your team!

AI

Joe Garecht Fundraising

JULY 21, 2025

When you're sitting down to write a fundraising plan, a case for support, or a fundraising letter, it can be helpful to have a template on hand to guide your efforts. Each of these sample fundraising materials is based on actual work our consultants have done for clients over the years.

Fundraising

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Customize first-draft appeals and emails with our communications templates. Free Marketing and Communications Templates: Start writing your Year-End and GivingTuesday appeals, emails, receipts and social media posts from a first draft, not from scratch! You can customize our communications templates and tailor them to your voice.

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 about that 30 minute FREE session here.

Logic Model

Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If you run a consulting firm, you understand the value of their greatest asset- your people. My experiences are growing the nonprofit consulting and grant writing firm Think and Ink Grants (www.thinkandinkgrants.com), however the insight I am sharing today can apply to any service based business: 1. Clone yourself.

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Groupfinity

JANUARY 12, 2023

#054 Rachel Bearbower is the founder and CEO of Small Shop Strategies, a nonprofit consultancy focused on coaching nonprofit leaders how to detangle their systems, so they can focus their time and energy on building relationships and raising more for their causes.

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