The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

While establishing relationships that can lead to planned gifts can take time, there are ways nonprofits can effectively raise more funds through this type of fundraising. Here are some of the most common types of planned gifts: Bequests : These are gifts made through a donor’s will or living trust. Is your board on board?

CRM

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Court Interventions Are Slowing Executive Overreach Thanks to recent rulings, some of the most harmful policy rollouts from the Trump administration have been blocked or reversed. This legal advocacy focuses heavily on education equity, climate resilience, and community justice programs—areas often targeted in ideological policy shifts.

Federal Grants

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As AI becomes increasingly prevalent, CSO leaders must establish robust policy frameworks that prioritize the interests of their beneficiaries and communities while upholding principles of equity, inclusivity, and social justice. Central to responsible AI deployment within CSOs is the creation of clear and comprehensive policy frameworks.

Policy

Planned Giving

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Read on for a few simple steps to build or strengthen your gift acceptance policy. What is a Gift Acceptance Policy? A gift acceptance policy serves as a transparency tool for your organization to understand which gifts your nonprofit is prepared to warmly accept. What does a Gift Acceptance Policy Contain?

Policy

ProposalPRO

MAY 1, 2022

Last week the nonprofit sector achieved a milestone when legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives to elevate sector voices in the development of policy. The Nonprofit Sector Strength and Partnership Act introduces something new: It establishes a formal partnership between federal policy makers and nonprofit organizations.

Grants

Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Enforce password protocols Although your nonprofit reaches out to donors about giving opportunities and volunteer positions, you should also pass along helpful information for interacting with your software. Educate your staff Your efforts to find the best nonprofit CRM is just the first step in using this software to keep donor data safe.

CRM

Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While there are risks of accepting in-kind donations, those risks can be offset by creating firm policies and guidelines surrounding the in-kind donations your nonprofit will accept. Not all gifts are made equally, and you won’t be able to accept them all if you don’t create an in-kind donation policy. What are in-kind donations?

Donation

Blackbaud

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nonprofit financial management is the process of managing the money that flows through your not-for-profit organization. Use Scenario Budgeting Nonprofits must withstand inflation, changing political policies, economic shifts, and the increasingly unpredictable climate. Establish a policy for its use and replenishment.

Management

Candid

MAY 8, 2024

Three key factors include a lack of strong work-family policies, occupational segregation, and gender discrimination. Challenging gender norms The United States remains the only industrialized economy without a national paid leave policy that would enable employees to take time off from work to care for loved ones without sacrificing income.

Policy

GrantNews

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In 1968 Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which moved a number of federal holidays to Mondays. There are grants to eligible nonprofits, agencies, and public schools for education and health programs to benefit disadvantaged populations.

Pass-Through

Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As you decide if your organization needs the infrastructure to manage federal grants, remember, many grants from states and local governments are from federal sources (pass through grants), so you have to manage them as federal dollars. It tells exactly what grant-specific policies and procedures you need to develop.

Grant Management

Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2024

One way your donors can help you extend your impact is through legacy giving. Legacy giving is a committed donation a donor plans to leave to a nonprofit organization as part of their estate after they’ve passed away. Here’s a look at seven of the most common types of legacy gifts: Bequests through wills and estate plans.

Pass-Through

Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

And SOPA's enforcement would've involved not only blocking access to a website through Internet Service Providers, but preventing search engines from linking to a site and, perhaps most important to nonprofits, barring payment processors like PayPal from processing donations for the site.

Electronics

Blackbaud

MARCH 7, 2025

Table of Contents Types of Donations to Meet Fundraising Goals Consideration for Higher Education: Fundraising vs. Advancement What Makes Fundraising So Challenging? These campaigns typically run from November through December, when donors are most motivated by both holiday generosity and tax deductions.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

” “The conversation easily gets off-track, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed and we haven’t even discussed important business because we’ve gotten off on a tangent again.” It’s your job to educate and manage your Board — especially if they don’t know what to do. Think of them as rules or guidelines.

Nonprofit

Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2013

As mentioned above, you can’t educate every volunteer that passes through your office. Donate your brain and join the TechSoup forums to talk about BYOD policies at your organization. Certain products even assess guests’ devices before allowing them to connect to the network in the first place.

Pass-Through

iGrantWriters

JULY 1, 2021

Eligibility Others The following organizations are eligible to apply: Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations; public and private educational institutions; individuals; and Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions. Description The U.S.

Pass-Through

GrantNews

MARCH 25, 2024

All of your conflict of interest policies and clauses dictating fiscal policies and emergency provisions are in place. This will take some time, but let’s go through the rundown of what this will look like: Gain final approval : Remember, this is a team effort so that the decision-makers will need final approval.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

Capitol to demand that Congress pass the Americans with Disabilities Act in a protest that is now known as the “Capitol Crawl.” That year, people celebrated the first Disability Pride Month to mark the passing of the bill. On March 12, 1990, over 1,000 people marched to the U.S. On July 26, 1990, President George H.W.

Pass-Through

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Check out the previous posts on conflict of interest policies and procedures and time and effort ! The key is knowing how your organization’s policy and procedure for allocating indirect costs and what this entails. Negotiate and maintain an indirect cost rate agreement through its cognizant agency. What are indirect costs?

Indirect Cost

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Have volunteers email or pass out volunteer recruitment letters. Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government.

Pass-Through

Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. During this time, they’ll read through the provided script and respond to a variety of different “donor personas.” so where can they find that information to pass along?

Training

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Forty percent find charities through plain old web searches. Now seems like a good time for nonprofits to educate their constituents about the privacy issues surrounding these and other smart objects. "Closing the digital divide will take more than one year and more than one policy change. Communications and Marketing.

Media

Fundly

MAY 18, 2021

Google Ad Grants Google empowers nonprofits to amplify their causes through its Ad Grants program. Whether you’re fighting for human rights, environmental concerns, policy changes, or any other issue, critical support can take many different forms. Then, charge admission for people to come through and view the vehicles.

Fundraising

Center for Major Gifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

If you’re ready to go beyond annual giving and unlock a more sustainable future through legacy gifts, read on. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the entire process of starting a planned giving program. Bequests A bequest is simply a term for a gift made through a will.

Pass-Through

Planned Giving

OCTOBER 7, 2023

An entire generation of older, more generous parishioners is passing. What happens when those parishioners pass away? Who’s going to pass the collection plate, much less leave something in it? They also need to educate donors about legacy gifts. The stock market looks like a roller coaster. What’s That?

Donation

GrantNews

JUNE 19, 2024

In 1872, one of the earliest recorded celebrations featured 2000 Black citizens from Columbus, Texas, who created a procession to march through the town in celebration. In 2021, an incredibly bipartisan bill was passed, declaring June 19th “ Juneteenth National Independence Day.” And every year, the celebrations grew.

Policy

Blackbaud

JANUARY 24, 2024

Going beyond compliance, however, consider convening a cross-functional team to proactively identify and implement AI-related organizational principles and policies to guide the organization’s practices going forward, taking into account regulatory requirements, business needs, and employee and customer sentiments.

AI

ProposalPRO

MARCH 30, 2022

There are other policy tools of course, but since I write about government grants let’s look at how the Biden Administration is using federal grants to advance racial equity. What practices, policies, and leadership changes are needed to increase our capacity to support equitable employment? Create New Grant Requirements.

Government

Blackbaud

APRIL 17, 2025

The education sector faces a growing array of cybersecurity threats, driven by its reliance on outdated infrastructure and the increasing adoption of disconnected digital technologies. Here we will explore whats at stake, the types of threats impacting education, and best practices for mitigation.

Education

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Federal funding is a critical source of revenue for many nonprofits, healthcare foundations, higher education institutions, and other organizations. Changes in federal policies and priorities can create significant uncertainty for your organization. This also includes your policies. Optimize grant drawdowns.

Funding