Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Maintaining compliance can protect existing funding, as well. The Importance of Accurate Time Allocation for Nonprofits Accurate time allocation is a cornerstone for nonprofit organizations, especially those with grant funding. Grants often come with specific stipulations on how funds should be allocated and reported.

Grants

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Introduction to Grants Definition and Purpose of Grants A grant is a financial award provided by a government agency, foundation, or corporation to support initiatives aligned with their objectives. This funding is essential for carrying out missions and serving communities.

Grant Writing

Candid

JULY 2, 2025

We define durable philanthropic capital as funding that is larger-scale, longer-term, and flexible. Typically, durable capital is an investment in fundamentals that set nonprofits up for long-term stability, growth, and impact, such as funding that allows nonprofits to strengthen their core operations or invest in leadership.

Government

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 1, 2025

When used ethically, AI tools can help nonprofits, researchers, and institutions craft stronger proposals, ultimately increasing access to crucial funding. Tools like language models can help generate outlines, suggest wording improvements, and even analyze funding announcements to identify alignment with organizational goals.

Grant Writing

Candid

JULY 31, 2025

Nonprofits are facing fierce competition for funding amid increased demand for services. The research indicated that increased contributions are also linked with having large fundraising budgets and sizable assets—but these are, by definition, inaccessible to small organizations.

Nonprofit

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Understanding what grants are and their significance can empower non-profit and business owners, as well as students, in accessing necessary funding. Definition of Grants A grant is a financial award provided by a government agency, foundation, or corporation to fund specific projects or programs.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The Goal of an Annual Giving Campaign: Secure the Foundation The primary goal of an annual giving campaign is to raise unrestricted funds to support your nonprofit’s ongoing operational costs and core programs throughout the year. What this looks like depends on your organization’s type and the programs it funds.

Donation

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alex Dunn, CFRE , is a grant consultant who founded the company Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates to help busy nonprofits save time and money while maximizing their grant funding. Alex has won more than $100 million in grant funding for her clients, and she uses this expertise to guide her work with each nonprofit client.

Consultant

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Organizations need to understand the simple mechanics of grant writing to vary their funding in today’s uncertain economy. Organizations craft persuasive proposals to get funding from institutions that provide financial support without asking for repayment. Grants are awarded based on merit rather than need.

Grant Writing

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alex Dunn, CFRE, is a grant consultant who founded the company Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates to help busy nonprofits save time and money while maximizing their grant funding. Alex has won more than $100 million in grant funding for her clients, and she uses this expertise to guide her work with each nonprofit client.

Consultant

Candid

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This update to the taxonomy consists of over 200 changes from the previous version, including: updates to definitions of terms, such as Human services or Researchers (the most common type of change); changes to term labels; additions and, to a much lesser extent, removal of terms; and shifts in where terms are located within the taxonomy.

IT

The Grantsmanship Center

MARCH 5, 2025

Problem analysis includes the definition of the problem along with why it is happening. In a later post, well look at reactive planning those times when we find a funding initiative and then try to mold a program to fit. As you design a program, clear analysis of the problem leads logically to the outcomes (objectives) of the program.

Proposal Writing

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 16, 2024

New Data from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) while it is not record-level funding, it was the third highest amount since the nonprofit started reporting such data in 2014. The data also showed that the proportion of disaster funding for reconstruction and recovery was higher than in recent years. Funding grew to 301.8

Funding

Blue Avocado

JUNE 10, 2025

While some organizations have benefited from increased flexible funding and adapted to more efficient virtual work models, others continue to grapple with financial instability, increased demand for services, and difficulties in volunteer recruitment and staff retention.

Nonprofit

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

I once volunteered to help raise some extra funds for our nonprofit. It may seem old-fashioned, but it’s definitely a meaningful gesture that is bound to show your donor their worth. When’s the last time you received a great thank you? The event lasted an entire Saturday after an already busy week.

CRM

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Warren Bennis , a pioneer in the study of contemporary leadership, shares a similarly ambitious definition, calling it the capacity to translate vision into reality. I appreciate these definitions, but what if leadership is really about making the best of less-than-ideal situations?

SAM

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Impact: Describing impact is important to the makers — it helps them get customers and funding. But either way, we need to work on this cooperatively, because a public good technology framework must, by definition, belong to all of us. Is there a way to get ongoing help from a support desk?

Goals

Center for Major Gifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Then you’ll definitely need good negotiation skills. A company sells products or services in order to raise funds, increase its bottom line, and stay in business. Then you need good negotiation skills. Want to get paid what you’re worth? You’ll need good negotiation skills for that, too. Want to become a better fundraiser?

Fundraising

Planned Giving

JULY 31, 2025

What Is the Definition of Charity? What Is the Definition of Philanthropy? Another way to become a philanthropist is to establish a foundation or fund to benefit certain groups or an entire community, town, city or state on a long-term basis or make continuous donations over a long period of time to a specific charity or charities.

Donation

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

9495, putting the bill through “regular order” by being granted a Rule from the House Rules Committee, which the bill will definitely get at today’s Rules Committee meeting, according to Mark Micali, vice president of Government Affairs at The Nonprofit Alliance in Washington, D.C. House Rules Committee will consider H.R

Pass-Through

Wild Apricot

JULY 8, 2025

If you’re looking for a complete nonprofit branding guide that helps you define your mission, clarify your message and roll out a consistent brand across every touchpoint, then you’re definitely in the right place! World Wildlife Fund (WWF) What stands out : Iconic panda logo, high-contrast design, and nature-focused imagery.

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Because your organization cant turn a profit by definition, the goal of tracking your finances is to demonstrate to donors, funders, the government, and the community that youre using your funding responsibly to further your mission. Accountability is at the heart of nonprofit accounting.

Liability

HSF House

APRIL 10, 2025

It combines a segmentation model to estimate the number of damaged buildings in an area with a YOLO model trained on side-view images of buildings for a more definitive cost prediction. While creating such a system wont be easy, IDEA Grants funding will make it far more feasible. Now, for how the damage assessment model works.

AI

Gail Perry Group

JUNE 26, 2025

From where we sit, working closely with clients across the country, we’re seeing real headwinds: more than 20,000 nonprofit jobs eliminated this year , along with the sudden cancellation of key federal funding streams. We’ve known for a while that social influence can definitely drive giving behavior. Empower peer-to-peer fundraising.

Consultant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

Scattered deadlines, disjointed documents, and disconnected systems make it nearly impossible to stay on top of funding opportunities strategically. 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.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2025

It’s especially treacherous for those responsible for securing critical funds to support their organization’s mission. Even if you’ve never heard this term, if you’re reading this, you’ve definitely experienced it. If you’re feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and mentally drained, you’re not alone.

Burnout

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

I once worked for an organization where a long-term board member finally admitted they had no idea how to read financial statements, and did not know where our funding came from for particular programs. From the moment a person joins a board, there is a definition of a role, which may be a description in the bylaws.

Management

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

First, I've talked with some of you about the government's hold on grants and funding. This podcast is definitely worth a listen: How should you approach audience research? Three things this week. Fortunately, the hold was lifted. But what happened SCARED THE out of people - and rightfully so. Here's my three-point strategy.

Funding

Candid

MARCH 12, 2025

nonprofits are struggling to navigate this period of uncertainty and instability, facing heightened federal scrutiny to threats to their funding. Some organizations may go offline unexpectedlybecause theyve lost staff, data, funding, or other resources. Regrant funds, if possible, to organizations struggling to fundraise.

Nonprofit

Tom Ahern

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Age definitely matters. Above: an ad from a small-town library's donor newsletter Re: permanently endowed funds A permanently endowed fund at your local community foundation is as close as most of us can come to immortality. Endowed funds just purr on and on. We change throughout our lives. Our interests change.

Funding

Future Fundraising Now

JUNE 12, 2025

A lot of fundraisers feel caught in a trap: We are required to raise unrestricted (or undesignated) funds most or all of the time. But specificity looks like restricted funds! But there are several passages that enlarge the definition beyond merely suing Trump. Good news: It’s possible to do both!

Fundraising

Gail Perry Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The generous gifts from board members funded this special project, X." “The They are not definitive about what is expected or encouraging about giving. Like all donors, they experience joy when they see the results of their gifts. The board’s gifts made all the difference in serving X group of people."

Publishing

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

She has helped nonprofits triple their funding. She has helped nonprofits triple their funding and over thousands of students have taken her grant writing courses, and she also happens to host the Grant Writing Simplified podcast. I use a lot of Google sheets, Asana, Instrumentl, definitely. Spreadsheets. I love that.

Instrumentl

Candid

JULY 14, 2025

From disruptions in federal funding streams and capacity constraints to emerging legal hurdles, nonprofits are confronting new challenges and increased uncertainty. The grants had enabled us to fund 21 Crime Victims Advocacy Program Fellows who worked directly with victims. For every 10,000 U.S. paid legal aid lawyers.

Policies

Bonterra

JUNE 27, 2025

Nonprofit vs. not-for-profit organizations Where nonprofits serve a broad purpose for the public good with funding from donations and grants , not-for-profit organizations serve a smaller community or member base and are primarily funded by membership dues and fees.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

These are funds set aside by the Board for a future special designated use, such as supporting the purchase of a headquarters building, acquiring a program from another organization, or funding a one-time future project, for example, a rebranding or a special event like a 100 th anniversary celebration.

Policy

Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

They might bury the ask in the appeal or think donors dont want to give during uncertain times, such as when there are proposed cuts in federal funding or a recession (absolutely not true). You should definitely thank your donors in your newsletters and other updates. Other organizations are skittish about asking for money.

Donation