Blackbaud

APRIL 23, 2025

Now comes the most rewardingand hardestpart of your grant cycle. The type of grant reviews your funding organization uses will depend on the number of applications you receive, your technology, and the goals of your grant program. Great submissions. Reviewing the applications and selecting the organizations to fund.

Grants

Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Be sure to download thisdonation page checklist from ourBasics & More Online Fundraisingclass and add it to your arsenal of tools! Download our Year-End Email Series Template (the exactguide I use to create my clients’ email series) to make sure youve got all bases covered! What does the donor experience look like?

Fundraising

CauseVox

APRIL 28, 2025

Download our free Ultimate Guide to Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: 2. You can use your nonprofits free Google Ad Grants account to do keyword research and help you get found online. Offer a downloadable resource (think: 5 Ways To Get Involved With Local Hunger Relief), a quiz, or a simple newsletter sign-up in exchange for an email address.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

MAY 2, 2025

Many nonprofits are feeling the strain from a pause in federal grant funding and are working to shift their programs to align with the changes in government priorities. Talk with your leadership now so you have a process in place for standing up a new or temporary grant program to address evolving needs.

Government

CauseVox

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Free Download: Year-End & GivingTuesday Fundraising Toolkit 1. This could include a campaign with a matching grant to double your GivingTuesday impact or you could crowdsource your donors through peer-to-peer fundraising pages. Check out these seven tips, and prepare for major engagement from both old and new supporters!

Media

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Government grants are always competitive. Government grants operate differently than most other revenue streams. This guide covers the fundamentals that your finance team needs to know during every stage of the grant so you can handle it confidently from award to closeout. Check out our grant compliance checklist.

Government

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 13, 2025

Also, as grant writers, we must translate these objectives logically and explicitly into grant applications, so that our nonprofit can be awarded the funds needed to crush the objectives and transform lives! To do so, the most effective method for grant writers to use is the SMART framework. But First: Objectives or Outcomes?

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

APRIL 14, 2025

While part of that dedication is inherent to the work they do and the communities they serve, there are ways that you as a funder can use your grants management system to give them back a little timeand maybe help them take a step back from burnout. For many of those efforts, the basis is an intuitive grants management system.

Grant Management

Candid

JULY 1, 2025

Second, when nonprofits share their knowledge, it enables others to build upon that work, saving time and resources—ensuring that finite grant dollars aren’t spent repeating existing research. Always provide a downloadable version of your research, such as a PDF or CSV file. It’s also important to consider the format.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

MARCH 11, 2025

Results : Make-A-Wish focuses on gaming in two ways: Gaming as a wish (it has granted 300 gaming-related wishes this year) and gaming as fundraising vehicle. An example of an org-sponsored P2P gaming event: the esports production company Blue Mammoth Games organized the Brawlhalla World Championship live-stream broadcast.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

AUGUST 6, 2025

You’d know that the grant wouldn’t be renewed, so you’d already have new revenue streams to replace it. Review trends in revenue sources such as donations, grants, and earned income, as well as expenses across programmatic, operational, and administrative categories. It ensures compliance and smooth cash flow management.

Finance

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

For finance teams in donor-focused and grant-funded organizations, working hand-in-hand with fundraising partners is critical to crafting reports that truly engage and tell a story. Grant Reports Grant stewardship requires detailed reporting on how funds were allocated and whether they achieved the intended outcomes.

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Faculty support and development: Provides funding for professorships, research grants, professional development, and attracting top-tier educators. This flexibility is invaluable, contrasting with many grants or major gifts that are highly restricted and can only be used toward specific projects. This is where annual giving comes in.

Donation

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

As part of its commitment to abundance, Kataly makes large, multi-year grants from the start of a relationship rather than “testing” grantee partners with small grants. This holistic view of infrastructure, care, and resilience reinforces the idea that movements need more than grants. They need systems. Still want to learn more?

Burnout

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

By sending the thank-you video within a couple of weeks of their donation, you help make sure they feel valued – and you remind them that their support is not being taken for granted. Here are a couple of tips sheets you can download and use to make your videos better: Thank You Video Pro Tips and DIY Video Checklist.

Donation

Blackbaud

AUGUST 4, 2025

For example, a heavily grant funded organization aiming to expand to other revenue sources may be more focused on their dependency quotient and revenue stream ROI. How to Calculate: Add all revenue streams—donations, grants, earned income, etc.—over over the fiscal year. How to Calculate: Revenue from Key Sources (e.g., in net revenue.

Metrics

Blackbaud

JULY 15, 2025

Think of GivingTuesday like a grant application: Focusing on a specific need will make it easier for supporters to understand how their donation will make a difference for your mission. Downloading the guide is your first step. Knowing which needs to focus on makes it easier to identify your goal.

Goals

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These may include delays in grant approvals, rescheduling of major events due to unforeseen circumstances, or sudden increases in demand for disaster relief services. Windfalls: Designate unexpected financial windfalls, such as one-time grants or gifts, to the reserve fund.

Management

Blackbaud

JUNE 19, 2025

Government grants are an important source of revenue for nonprofits, but many could benefit from income stream diversification Government grants are a key income source for nonprofits in each region surveyed. In fact, growing nonprofits in the UK say that government grants now contribute less to their income.

AI

NonProfit PRO

JULY 9, 2025

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AI

Blackbaud

JUNE 20, 2025

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised their uniform guidance in 2024, increasing the de minimus (or standard) rate allowed for indirect costs—overhead for federal grants—from 10 to 15%. Indirect costs are the overhead expenses incurred as part of a government grant. On the positive side, the U.S.

Indirect Cost

Blackbaud

JUNE 5, 2025

This may include donations, grants, fundraising events, government funding, and even small affiliate programs through your local grocery store. Having this clear delineation will also highlight if you are relying too heavily on one revenue source, or several connected channels, like federal and state grants.

Budget

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

GSAs Federal Integrated Business Framework (FIBF) has identified more than 400 standard data elements for grants management alone. New Realities for Grant Reporting The governments capacity to run data analytics on federal spending is not only a reality, but a routine. To learn more about digital communities, visit [link].

Grants

Blackbaud

APRIL 16, 2025

A well-thought-out system can do the following automatically: Track Funding Sources Nonprofits often receive funding from diverse sources , such as grants, donations, sponsorships, and events. For nonprofits, their duties involve more than just basic bookkeeping. Want to learn more about improving your organizations data health?

Finance

Planned Giving

MARCH 27, 2025

But despite a life bursting with entrepreneurial grit and the kind of courage that cant be downloaded, Cameron is often remembered for his aphorisms. You know, the place with sand, snakes, and zero Starbucks. This guy didnt just hustle; he defined it. Lets take a moment to appreciate just how brutally honest this is.

Budget

Blackbaud

APRIL 7, 2025

For example, you may have received a grant to start a school garden, so all expenses must be accurately tracked to verify that funds from that grant were only used to buy supplies for the garden. Tuition, fees, donations, grants, endowments, and events all need to be accounted for accurately.

Budget

Blackbaud

APRIL 21, 2025

If your nonprofit has ever tried to revamp its website , acquire a grant, or prepare for an audit, you know there are some roles for which your team simply isnt prepared. Its uncommon for nonprofit organizations to have a comprehensive skillset in-house. For this reason, nonprofits often seek expertise from external consultants and vendors.

Proposal

Blackbaud

MAY 20, 2025

Free Resource Major Giving with Blackbaud Raisers Edge NXT: A Lookbook for Fundraisers Download Now The post Philanthropy Is for the Optimists: How to Build a Shared Sense of Purpose first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud.

Strategic Plan

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

Small to mid-sized nonprofits:rather than hiring your fifth development director in three years, consider outsourcing your creative and/or grants, freeing up your fundraisers time for growing relationships. Download your free 2025 Fundraising Calendar for the tools and strategies to see your mission through any crisis!

AI

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

Grant and Donor Reporting Integrating your fundraising software with your accounting system enables the system to automatically pull relevant data, making it easy for your team to track dollars from start to finish. Free Resource How to Get Started with Automation at Your Nonprofit Finance Office Download Now 3.

Finance

Bonterra

JULY 31, 2025

Many life sciences companies still rely on spreadsheets and emails for managing their medical affairs grant programs. This manual approach across various grants, countries, and business units can lead to data inconsistencies, errors, and non-compliance. Worksheets : Capture and store multi-dimensional data seamlessly in tabular format.

Grant Management

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 10, 2024

According to Jillain Veil-Ehnert, director of Foundation Relations & Research Grants at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., Download session materials from the conference app and make notes or highlight important content. Think about future professional development as well as grant strategy.

Conference

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Published: September 8, 2021 Grant Writing Classes Table of Contents SHOW MORE SHOW LESS Return to top In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you how to simplify, streamline, and support your team. Find and win more grants for your nonprofit! She has helped nonprofits triple their funding.

Instrumentl

Blackbaud

JULY 10, 2025

Examples of contribution revenue include one-off donations from individuals, sustained giving, or grants. This could also include a multi-year grant, which would be recognized over the program’s duration in a concept known as the matching principle.

Finance

GiveSmart

APRIL 1, 2025

1 With grant funding under threat and siege , many organizations acknowledge increasing revenue streams via fundraising events will be necessary to maintain programs and support missions. Download our free guide today! A successful nonprofit fundraising event should be engaging and fun.

Fundraising

Peak Proposals

JULY 20, 2025

but rely on grants from private foundations and not federal sources, the closure of USAID might seem like an unfortunate event, but one unrelated to your grantseeking. USAID maintained a comprehensive website, published a variety of downloadable publications, and regularly posted updates on multiple social media accounts.

Policies

Planned Giving

JULY 28, 2025

Usage rights granted to all nonprofits. Longer Version [ DOWNLOAD ] A longer article with intros, explanations, and context — perfect for websites, blogs, newsletters, or outreach to family and friends. August may be “Make a Will Month,” but let’s be honest—your legacy deserves more than a single square on the calendar.

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