Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Know your numbers: Review any similar programs and calculate average cost per participant, personnel time allocation percentages, and indirect cost ratios to inform budget projections. Establish your indirect cost rate: Calculate your cost rate and understand the de minimis rate available to your organization.

Government

Allied Grant Writers

MARCH 17, 2025

Traditionally, funding for these institutions has come from tithes, donations, and local fundraising efforts. Tithes and donations, while essential, are often subject to fluctuations due to economic cycles, demographic shifts, or changes in community engagement. Include detailed budget justifications, timelines, and evaluation plans.

Funding

amplifi

APRIL 24, 2025

Overall donation amounts may be trending upwards, but fewer donors are giving than just a few years ago. So, dont try to cast a wide net and hope it will result in more donations. So do some research and look for businesses willing to donate services, venues, or promotional support in exchange for visibility and goodwill.

Budget

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

If your community outreach programs are grant-funded, your funder likely requires you to report key metrics like the number of individuals served or how you were able to expand your programs into new areas. First-person testimonials from beneficiaries help connect donations to a face and personal story.

Finance

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Evaluation Plan : A strategy for assessing the success of the project, including metrics to measure impact. Indirect Costs : Overhead costs, such as utilities and administrative expenses. In-Kind Contributions : Donations of services or goods that may also support the project. Indirect Costs Overhead and administrative costs.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

MAY 30, 2024

For example, organizations might still use in-person meetings as a key metric for gift officers despite communication preferences and habits changing so dramatically post-2020. While you likely already have processes in place for tracking donations and donor relationships, don’t forget that management should be a data-informed process , too.

Management

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 Restricted funds are donations or grants that can only be used for the purposes specified by the funder. All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary.

Funding