Blackbaud

MAY 13, 2025

Internal controls help protect these assets from fraud , theft, and misuse, ensuring that funds are used for their intended purposes. Strong internal controls promote financial transparency and accountability, demonstrating that funds are being used ethically and effectively.

Policy

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

AI can automate labor-intensive tasks and improve the quality of grant proposals, but ethical considerations are critical to maintaining trust and credibility in highly regulated sectors. Proposal Drafting: AI can create drafts tailored to specific funding agencies, improving alignment with solicitation requirements. Author Bio: G.

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 21, 2025

However, in todays funding landscape, the most important W - Who - is often overlooked. Consider the difference between two grant-funded projects: One secures a major grant but lacks community input, resulting in services that go unused or fail to address real needs.

Grant Writing

Blue Avocado

JULY 8, 2025

These organizations face many common challenges like securing sustainable funding, managing volunteer engagement, and navigating internal dynamics that can hinder their vital work. This dependence can create a precarious financial position, especially when funding priorities shift or economic conditions tighten.

Nonprofit

Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 8, 2024

According to BoardSource , the board [of directors] is responsible for ensuring that the organization is appropriately stewarding the resources entrusted to it and following all legal and ethical standards. braided funding strategies, direct v. indirect costs, matching funds, supplanting).

GPC

Candid

MAY 5, 2025

These groups often face multiple barriers such as distrust of financial institutions, lack of sufficient funds, limited connectivity in rural areas, lack of identification documents, and the resulting high transaction costs, which limit opportunity for economic participation for those who need it most.

Policy

Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Similarly, in the nonprofit sector, well-funded organizations are already leveraging AI to increase efficiency and reduce burnout, while smaller nonprofitsoften serving the most marginalized communitiesare being left behind. We bear the responsibility to ensure AI adoption is equitable, ethical, and inclusive. Foster collaboration.

AI

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Collaborating on grant-funded projects, and particularly proposal development, is essential for nonprofits. To use AI effectively, a proposal team must set ground rules for ethical deployment and ensure that AI serves as a tool, not a team member.

AI

Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This is especially important now because of the current chaos of eliminating (and then not eliminating, at least for now) federal grant funding. This guest post by John Killoran covers a variety of revenue sources to help you diversify your funding. We also saw disruption five years ago when the COVID-19 pandemic started.

Nonprofit

The Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Securing the estimated 60% of annual fund revenue that comes from major gifts on average. Work with trusted providers, follow best practices for data security and ethics, and be transparent with your community about how your organization uses AI to prevent risks and maximize the benefits of these tools.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

While the criticism and concerns over some aspects of AI—including environmental impacts and severe ethical and human rights violations—are entirely valid, today we’re zooming in on AI and grant writing. You’ll get a fully customized grants system, tailored to your programs, funding strategy, and team needs. That’s not just readiness.

Grant Writing

GrantNews

JULY 7, 2025

Finding funding can be a challenge for nonprofits, but rolling deadline grants (also known as ongoing grants ) offer a flexible solution. Unlike traditional grants with fixed deadlines, rolling deadline grants accept applications year-round until funds are exhausted. 25 Ongoing Grant Opportunities: Rolling Deadlines for Nonprofits 1.

Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

With public funding in flux, private foundations shifting priorities, and technology changing how proposals are crafted and reviewed, nonprofits need way more than strong writing to stay competitive. While originally centered around principles like unrestricted funding and reduced administrative burden, this approach has evolved.

Grants

Blackbaud

JULY 1, 2025

Like many financial instruments meant to identify specific purposes for pools of funds—401ks and 529 plans—endowments have specific ways they can be used. Similarly, endowed funds aren’t a simple savings account for the organization. Respecting those intentions is both a legal and ethical obligation.

Policy

CauseVox

APRIL 28, 2025

With customizable pages, built-in storytelling tools, and easy sharing options, your supporters can raise funds and awarenesswithout needing a marketing degree. Lean into storytelling , and remember to do it ethically. CauseVox makes launching peer-to-peer campaigns refreshingly simple. Focus on dignity, not pity.

Nonprofit

Grant Writer Team

MAY 15, 2025

It really doesn’t matter what nonprofit you program you write for, or small business you might need to fund; the answer is the same. Concepts like transparency, accountability, and sustainability arent just ethical ideals. Youre also hiring someone who understands the importance of honesty and ethics in every step of the process.

Policy

Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 3, 2025

The world of grants is constantly evolving, reflecting changes in government policies, funding opportunities, and emerging trends in nonprofit management as well as in the societies we serve. Now more than ever, we must work together to traverse this government funding landscape and learn how best to assist our organizations.

GPCI

Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 28, 2025

Individual donations make up a large portion of most nonprofits funding, and those donors generally want to feel connected to and appreciated by the organizations they support. For example, a segment of older, wealthy donors might be the best group for direct mail outreach promoting your annual fund. Learn more in this guide.

CRM

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Collaborating on grant-funded projects, especially during proposal development, has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my 26+ years working in nonprofits. To use AI effectively, a proposal team must set ground rules for ethical deployment and ensure that AI serves as a tool, not a team member.

AI

Grant Writer Team

MARCH 27, 2025

Governance & Ethics Boards set policies that keep operations ethical, legal, and mission-aligned. Part of a nonprofit governing board’s job is to secure funding for operation costs and special projects. Finding and securing grant funding takes time, strategy, and a well-written grant proposal.

Government

Strategic Grants

MARCH 17, 2025

Catch up on whats happening across the world of funding, philanthropy, and research with the latest updates from Team SGs busy research team. Looking for the latest sector news? Here’s a round-up of what we’ve been reading lately, in our latest sector news blog.

Burnout

Candid

JUNE 26, 2025

And so, grantmakers are studying the landscape , weighing every implication , and exercising caution as they consider how best to integrate AI in ways that are ethical, inclusive, and effective. It could identify interventions and strategies or suggest a collaborative funding model along with ideas on how best to approach the issue.

AI

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Regardless of the pricing model, it’s essential to note that paying a grant writer based on a percentage of awarded funds is both unethical and prohibited by industry standards. The Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Grant Professionals Association don’t allow this practice in their codes of ethics.

Grants

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

Center for Major Gifts

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Millennials are often the first source of funding for grassroots organizations. This generation has a sense of identity and community, so they have a natural drive to fund local causes that they care about. Through top-down philanthropy, wealthy individuals can fund programs and organizations that they have strong feelings about.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

APRIL 3, 2025

Threat #1: Phishing Scams and Email Fraud In many phishing schemes, hackers either impersonate an email account or take over a trusted email account, using several methods to steal funds from organizations. These invoices appear legitimate but include altered payment instructions directing funds to the hackers bank account.

Policy

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Whether you aim to purchase new sports equipment, fund a class trip, or renovate the library, your fundraising efforts can gain a major boost through sponsorships. Be explicit about how much money you need to raise, how you plan to use the funds, and how it will benefit students. This type of information demonstrates credibility.

Fundraising

HSF House

JUNE 5, 2025

Yet it wasnt until recently that I began to seriously reflect on the ethical and social dimensions of scientific inquiry. But Ive learned that many scholars, especially in the Global South, face daunting barriers: limited research funding, unequal access to cutting-edge equipment, publication gatekeeping, and restricted mobility.

Ethics

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

As traditional funding models shift and societal needs evolve, nonprofits are being called upon to adapt and innovate to create lasting change. This increased need is coupled with a potential shift in funding priorities, as philanthropic organizations and governments allocate more resources to address climate-related emergencies.

AI

Future Fundraising Now

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But if you’re raising funds from donors, you are helping make donors’ lives better. Getting away with something that’s barely ethical. They give because they want to and because it feels good and makes their lives better. Making donors’ lives better” is probably not why your organization exists. That would be weird. It just happens.

Ethics

GiveSmart

JANUARY 23, 2025

Improving your nonprofits storytelling can help your organization retain donors and grow funding, grants, and corporate interest in 2025. AI Supported Fundraising AI and AI-supported tools offer technology that can have real benefits for nonprofits, but they also carry a lot of ethical considerations.

Fundraising

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 24, 2025

However, designation certifications go further in requiring ongoing continuing education and adherence to a professional code of ethics. Certified Fund Raising Executives Like the GPC, the CFRE set the standard for fundraising professionals worldwide. Who Is Certified?

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JUNE 19, 2025

US participants responded to federal funding freezes in early 2025; with research showing that it’s possible to experience revenue growth even while government grant support decreased (as it did for a fifth of participants whose income grew), but very rare to grow revenue while reducing major donor or foundation support.

AI

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Your first outreach should be an email welcome series , sent to everyone: Share information and updates about your institution Offer ways for grateful patients to thank their care providers Ask for feedback Grateful patients who have donated to the annual fund have a much higher likelihood of moving up the pyramid.

Ethics

DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Despite being grouped under the same umbrella, these watchdogs have distinct missions, operate differently, and can impact your ability to raise necessary funds in various ways. These watchdogs help donors make informed decisions, ensuring their contributions go to reputable and effective organizations.

Finance

Blue Avocado

APRIL 1, 2025

The knowledge that communities hold is precious, and the ethical use of this knowledge for institutional purposes requires the three Rs of ethical community engagement: Research , Relationships , and Remuneration. Research Understanding context is vitally important.

Ethics

Candid

JULY 30, 2025

When the funding freeze hit, we needed to reassess budgets, manage our relationships and responsibilities with panicked stakeholders, reassure staff, and develop contingency plans—all at the same time. Blair, with his deep donor relationships, took the lead on funding conversations.

Ethics