Candid

JULY 2, 2025

Our new report, Sustaining Change: Unlocking Durable Capital for Lasting Impact , outlines definitions, benefits, and case studies of seven types of fundamental durable capital designed to build organizational resilience and to help nonprofits weather unforeseen funding challenges and policy uncertainty. And the one after that.

Government

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Definition of Grants A grant is a financial award provided by a government agency, foundation, or corporation to fund specific projects or programs. Project Goals and Objectives Clear, measurable goals and specific objectives that the project aims to achieve.

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. Review your annual gift data to identify a threshold for annual givers.

Donation

Blackbaud

JULY 15, 2025

Step-by-Step GivingTuesday Strategy for Your Nonprofit Step 1: Brainstorm Your Goals Before jumping into GivingTuesday email examples for this year, take a look back at last year’s campaign. You’ll want to set a clear goal that builds upon last year’s momentum and helps your organization grow. Remember to make it a SMART goal.

Goals

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 1, 2025

Tools like language models can help generate outlines, suggest wording improvements, and even analyze funding announcements to identify alignment with organizational goals. ChatGPT said: Yes, I would definitely adjust the tone and focus slightly if the theme shifts to “Balancing Innovation & Integrity: AI in Nonprofit Grant Writing.”

Grant Writing

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Definition and purpose of grant writing Grant writing includes research, drafting, and submission of proposals to receive financial awards that support specific projects or programs. The main goal goes beyond just getting money—it helps organizations turn their ideas into reality.

Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 26, 2025

They are, in fact, essential for organizing your tasks, tracking your progress, and achieving your program or project goals. Tip: To brush up on the definitions of outcomes and objectives, you may want to read our blog on the difference between objectives and outcomes. The objectives contribute to achieving your goal.

Grant Writing

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The goal of a framework for building public good technology is not to evaluate the quality of technology. But either way, we need to work on this cooperatively, because a public good technology framework must, by definition, belong to all of us. It can also be seen as a baseline structure for future collaboration.

Goals

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

CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

Once you’ve set your definition, it’s time to crunch some numbers. Your goal isn’t to guilt anyone; it’s to reopen the door and convey, “We still need you, and you are creating meaningful change by supporting us.” A common benchmark is anyone who hasn’t given in the last 12 months. Start with a heartfelt thank you.

CRM

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

It may seem old-fashioned, but it’s definitely a meaningful gesture that is bound to show your donor their worth. Your main goal in all of your thank you notes should be to keep your donors engaged and interested in donating again.”

CRM

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

While we definitely understand the all-hands-on-deck mentality of nonprofits, this doesn’t necessarily yield the best results. Time savings —a support person should be able to utilize available materials to get up to speed quickly on the organization’s work and goals. Their work should save you time, not add to your work load.

Consulting

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

While we definitely understand the all-hands-on-deck mentality of nonprofits, this doesnt necessarily yield the best results. Time savings a support person should be able to utilize available materials to get up to speed quickly on the organizations work and goals. Their work should save you time, not add to your work load.

Consulting

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 Section 4 of H.R.9495

Pass-Through

Planned Giving

JULY 31, 2025

What Is the Definition of Charity? What Is the Definition of Philanthropy? Those who get involved in philanthropy don’t just give on occasion; instead, they volunteer, donate money and actually participate in hands-on work to accomplish their goal of serving the public. What Types of Acts Are Involved in Charity?

Donation

Clairification

JUNE 16, 2025

Here are a few actual entries from that calendar: “ Noah definitely has mastered the pincer grasp of Cheerios. It included a brilliant idea for a gift to his children. Each kid got their own leather-bound journal at birth. Every week he spent some time writing thoughts and observations in the journal. Cry tears of joy.

Calendar

HSF House

APRIL 10, 2025

It showed me the kind of community that forms when like-minded people come together with a shared goal. 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. Now, for how the damage assessment model works.

AI

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 11, 2025

DH Leonard Consulting Grant Professionals Weigh In Succinctly put, objectives are individual, specific intentions that together complete the overarching goal. Don’t worry, many people have to ask. Julie Brown, GPC, another Lead Writer on our team, describes it this way: “Meeting the objectives leads to the measurable outcomes.”

Logic Model

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

Gail Perry Group

JUNE 26, 2025

No one yet knows exactly how the loss of billions in public funding will affect philanthropy overall in 2025, so be careful when setting goals for this current year. We’ve known for a while that social influence can definitely drive giving behavior. The ripple effects of these shifts are just beginning to emerge.

Consulting

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

From the moment a person joins a board, there is a definition of a role, which may be a description in the bylaws. SusanCherne from FARM STEW International Define roles, understand them, and communicate clearly. Defining roles and understanding roles.

Management

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Our goal is to tackle a problem grant professionals often have to solve, while also sharing different ways Instrumentl’s platform can help grant writers win more grants. I use a lot of Google sheets, Asana, Instrumentl, definitely. I definitely have always kind of had a weak spot for office supplies. That's the goal.

Instrumentl

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The goal is to raise $5 million! This podcast is definitely worth a listen: How should you approach audience research? Next week, McDonald's will bring back its Shamrock Shake. For every shake sold, McDonalds will donate 25 cents to RMHC. Marketing Your Cause 1.

Funding

Bonterra

JUNE 27, 2025

Limit its documented goals to one or more charitable purposes. Where nonprofits serve the public good, often with a charitable goal, not-for-profits focus on benefiting a smaller group or member base. Not-for-profits Not-for-profits typically have more localized goals centered around their community or member base.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

Operating Reserve Policies To help institutionalize operating reserve best practices and provide a pathway for a clear set of purposes, definitions, and goals, have a formal operating reserve policy in place prepared by senior management and staff and approved by the Board.

Policy

Clairification

MARCH 27, 2025

Very few nonprofits have in their strategic plan a goal to build goodwill and a culture of philanthropy. I say you really should read what he says and take it to heart if you want to be sustainable over the long haul. Let me explain. Or it doesnt.

Strategic Plan

Planned Giving

JUNE 10, 2025

When to Use Per Stirpes in a Will Common Scenarios Per stirpes distribution is often used when the primary goal is to ensure that a deceased beneficiary’s share is passed down to their descendants. This is particularly useful in families with multiple generations, where the testator wants to ensure continuity in asset distribution.

Pass-Through

Blackbaud

MARCH 7, 2025

In my experience, the process begins with analyzing what has gone on in the past fiscal year (or two) and culminates with proposing budget amounts that are reasonable and a bit of a stretch goal. Every situation is different so, again, if you have any doubts about how much to communicate, definitely do your due diligence.

Budget

HSF House

JUNE 20, 2025

Before my time abroad ends, one of my main goals is to organize and structure my capstone more clearly. I am not currently aware of other opportunities to keep exploring this topic further, but I definitely want to share what I have learned with my peers back in the United States.

Transportation

HSF House

JULY 1, 2025

When I first thought of the definition of community, I thought a group of people that are engaging with each other that live in the same place. It is about working together as a team and sharing goals, aspirations, and ambitions with one another.

Goals

HSF House

JUNE 14, 2025

These are more personal goals for making memories and making the most of my experience, in both the research and social side. Another thing I would like to do during my summer experience is definitely spend time with my family who are actually from Spain and explore their favorite parts of their country with them.

Goals

HSF House

JUNE 24, 2025

In this post, I’ll be letting you in on a few new pieces of information regarding my experience, some environmental influences that have pushed me to take new perspectives into consideration, a bit of self-reflection and evaluation, and a goal I’m setting for myself on top of last week’s post.

Goals

HSF House

JUNE 20, 2025

E= Environmental Influences Tallahassee is most definitely a slower-paced city with a tight-knit community that I have always been drawn to. My landscape completely changed the further north I traveled. I want to explore themes of marginalization, authenticity, and how public narratives are shaped by independent and mainstream platforms.

Media

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But regardless of what type of proposals you may be working on at this moment in time, there is one thing I can say with certainty: You will run into proposals that ask you to write out the goals, objectives, and outcomes for your program or project. Do you know the difference between a goal, an objective, and an outcome?

Goals

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 10, 2022

Nonprofit leaders need to set actual fundraising goals. Rather than setting a clear goal, leaders pressure fundraising professionals to raise more. As you look at the upcoming fiscal year, please work to be clear on goals. Some management systems call this a “ definition of done.” Enough is enough.

Goals

NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 20, 2023

Start your new year off right with this essential resource for 2023 success!

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 27, 2023

Start your new year off right with this essential resource for 2023 success!

Fundraising