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7 Signs Your Organization Is Ready for an Enterprise-Scale CRM

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7 Key Indications Youre Ready for a CRM Upgrade Heres how to know if your growth demands action on a CRM upgrade sooner rather than later. If your organization is ready to enable more AI innovation, you are going to need a CRM with a robust, granular data structure tailored specifically for the needs of social impact enterprises.

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The Different Types of Grant Reviews: What Grantmakers Need to Know

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Its also important to share your conflict-of-interest policy and make sure everyone involved has an opportunity to disclose any potential conflicts. Establish clear guidelines and guardrails so participants disclose any personal or professional connections to applicants and adhere to strict confidentiality policies.

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4 Common Pitfalls in the Grant Review Process (and How to Avoid Them)

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Finally, provide a clear conflict of interest policy with examples so people know what conflicts might look like and they can disclose them. This could be a good use case for a generative AI tool (just make sure you have a good AI policy in place first). Check out our on-demand product tour of Blackbaud Grantmaking.

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13 Tips for Ensuring Government Grant Compliance for Your Nonprofit Organization

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Pre-Award Preparation Have certain policies and processes in place before applying for a grant so you can be confident you meet their requirements and there are no surprises. Tip 1: Have your leadership drive the conversation on grant funding and the policies associated with this revenue stream. Update your policies accordingly.

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Change is Inevitable: Budgets and How to Manage Changing Them

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We build a budget that is fair, balanced, and built on evidential history, but flexible ready for whatever hiccups and bumps come along. Pandemics, natural and man-made disasters, economic challenges, and governmental policy and funding changes are all potentially budget-tweaking scenarios. Honest communication is the best policy.

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Take the Stress Out of Budgeting for Your K–12 Private School

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Finally, external factors like enrollment changes or new policies can drastically impact your schools financial outlook, creating more uncertainty in an already challenging process. Ready to see how a fund accounting system built for K12 private schools and other nonprofit organizations can simply your budget process?

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How to Drive Next-Level Grantmaking: Start with Levers, Ripples, and Spheres

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Consider offering supplies, professional coaching, skills training and resources, technology, leadership, feedback loops, convening space (and snacks), communications tools, writing expertise, fiscal policies , quiet or loud encouragement, and endorsement to other funders—to name just a few options.