Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

Many nonprofits rely heavily on grants to fund their missions, but successfully securing and managing grants requires a clear understanding of the grant lifecycle. The grant lifecycle refers to the full process a grant goes through from identifying opportunities and applying to implementing funded projects and reporting outcomes.

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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.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The following checklist covers the basics of everything you need to get funded , become official, and stay organized: Define your nonprofit’s mission clearly. Getting your programs off the ground, ensuring legal compliance, recruiting staff and volunteers, and correctly managing your nonprofit’s finances can be daunting.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 25, 2025

Keep reading to learn what financial reviews and audits entail, when to opt for one over the other, and how specialized fund accounting software can simplify and enhance these processes. Looking for a fund accounting system that takes the stress out of your financial audit or review process? What is a Financial Review?

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Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

FINANCE DIRECTOR: Fiscal year-end numbers have not been fully reviewed yet, but recognized revenue from fundraising will be close to $7 million DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR: What the…?!? Directors of Development and Directors of Finance often find themselves working in a love/hate relationship. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Ugh.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. What Are Restricted Funds? What are Unrestricted Funds?

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 7, 2024

You are done with juggling multiple spreadsheets just to track your restricted funds. You’ve made the decision to switch to a modern fund accounting system. To do a fund accounting implementation process right, there is a good amount of organization, data clean-up, and training involved. You’ve found the perfect partner.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2024

Maybe this sounds impossible, especially if you’re a small organization and worried about your finances , but you can do this! When all levels of government make funding cuts or policy changes, the need in the community grows, which puts more burden on nonprofit organizations. Also, make sure your CRM/database is up to date.

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DonorSnap

APRIL 29, 2024

A nonprofit CRM system offers many benefits, including facilitating team collaboration on fundraising efforts. A nonprofit CRM system helps your team maintain detailed supporter notes, enhancing donor stewardship. If your CRM isn’t being fully utilized, we want to help! Is your nonprofit fully utilizing its database?

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

Aplos started looking for a CRM component during the fall of 2023. Founded in 2009, Aplos Software develops finance software for nonprofits and churches. There was also seed funding in both 2009 and 2012. There are 200 employees across the three firms and what he described as minimal overlap, but strong alignment, of clients.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When you start a nonprofit, one of the most important things to figure out is how to manage your organizations finances. You dont want to take funding away from your programs unless its absolutely necessary, but some spending on overhead is essential for your nonprofit to operate.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 28, 2025

From attracting prospective students to optimizing funds and rewarding academic progress, these five practical approaches will show how institutions can use scholarships to transform their bottom line and amplify student outcomes. Retention is critical for institutions, and studies show that finances are thetop reason students leave college.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2013

TechSoup is proud to announce the newest version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Dynamics CRM is customer relationship management (CRM) server software that offers tools for storing and analyzing customer records. Dynamics CRM is ideal for larger organizations that store substantial constituent data and run analytics on it.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2024

But you and I know it’s critical to maintain a robust and up-to-date CRM. Work closely with administrators to identify reports that need to be run and the metrics to track during the campaign, which will inform your fund setup and gift entry process. Fine-tune your fund setup. Review pledge, planned gift, and fund agreements.

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Blackbaud

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By extending the power of its Blackbaud CRM platform with Power BI, the team now sees more focused information about their major giving prospects. Power BI can help organizations translate complex data into an action plan for every team, from the finance office to fundraising. What Is Microsoft Power BI?

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

If the mission of your nonprofit addresses race, health, or wealth disparities, you likely need additional funding to meet increased demand. One way to get more funding is to start or grow your major gifts program to channel resources toward an equitable recovery for all. So, what can we do to close these gaps?

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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. Problems such as an economic downturn or changes in federal funding can arise at any time. After that, take a step back to look at last years finances. What were your organizations biggest wins?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I’m writing to ask you to team up as we [solve a problem or fund a project]. Then, create a donor segment list of these special supporters in your CRM. Churches raise funds for various reasons, from funding community outreach programs like food banks to supporting international trips. By donating.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, there’s many challenges you have to overcome, such as limited staff capacity, rising costs, and inadequate finances. In fact, 67% of nonprofits use a CRM. GoFundMe | Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe is a leading crowdfunding platform that empowers individuals and nonprofits to raise funds for a wide range of causes.

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DonorSnap

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

So we have broken it down to the necessities and offered our top choices in the following categories: Nonprofit CRM Accounting Software Email Marketing Design Keep reading to discover the best tools you can get started with today that will help launch your nonprofit. Below are some of the most popular ways nonprofits use a CRM.

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DoJiggy

JULY 9, 2024

QuickBooks is a powerful tool that can help streamline these processes, making it easier for nonprofits to manage their finances efficiently. By following these tips and leveraging the right integrations, your nonprofit can harness QuickBooks’s full potential to manage finances effectively and maintain donor trust.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Here are some Affinity Program offers: Financial SCAN by the Nonprofit Finance Fund and GuideStar is an easy-to-use data platform that focuses users on the financial metrics that matter most, without oversimplifying what it takes to keep organizations' finances in balance.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

Givebutter, the all-in-one nonprofit fundraising and CRM platform, closed a $50 million strategic growth investment led by BVP Forge, Bessemer Venture Partners’ dedicated investment fund for self-sustaining, growing companies. There is also participation from existing investor Ardent Venture Partners.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Store data about your wealthiest donors in your nonprofit’s CRM to reference in future communications. Use your CRM to note every interaction you have with major donors. Sharing details about your fundraising ROI and how you allocate funds allows major donors to see that their gifts are being used to directly benefit your mission.

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GiveSmart

JULY 30, 2024

Integration with other systems, like CRM tools, adds to the complexity, and over-segmentation can lead to confusion. Data Management Challenges Relationships thrive when both partners work together to complete mundane tasks, like managing finances and doing chores. However, s egmenting donors can be a challenge on some platforms.

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CauseVox

JULY 13, 2021

New Fundraising Opportunities Snd Financing. This is a great place to continue telling your story and create specific, concrete needs that your donors can fund. You can use your CRM or CauseVox to keep track of these donors. Pledges allow you to open up new opportunities for your organization.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

It was a one-day in-person free workshop, thanks to funding from Google Foundation , and attracted an impressive array of smart and informed nonprofit technologists. NTEN chose him to present on cloud security and financing because he has a unique blend of accounting expertise, technology know-how, and nonprofit industry understanding.

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Community Boost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Donors love knowing their funds will be leveraged! If you’ve met your goal, inspire donors by illustrating how additional funds can lead to even more impact. the most philanthropic funds are raised during the last two days of the year. Get this in place in October. The Two Most Generous Days of the Year In the U.S.,

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I’m writing to ask you to team up as we [solve a problem or fund a project]. Then, create a donor segment list of these special supporters in your CRM. Churches raise funds for various reasons, from funding community outreach programs like food banks to supporting international trips. By donating.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Sometimes the only thing standing between you and launching a successful fundraising campaign to fund a new, needed program is an extra set of hands. Don’t give your VA access to your organization’s bank account or finances. The post How to Find and Work with a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant appeared first on Get Fully Funded.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Federal funding is a critical source of revenue for many nonprofits, healthcare foundations, higher education institutions, and other organizations. This blog post provides an action plan for approaching the uncertainty around federal funding and offers practical steps and detailed guidance.

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Center for Major Gifts

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Look at their giving capacity, philanthropic history, and personal interestsa task made easier by prospect research tools and a well-maintained CRM. Identify the project or fund that matches their passions, and define explicit objectives for the giftlike expanding a current program or launching a new initiative.

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