Candid

MAY 5, 2025

In fact, its in eight of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals including eradicating poverty, ending hunger, and reducing inequality. Localizing digital financial inclusion: A case study from rural Mexico In rural Mexico, a nonprofit-led effort shows how locally adapted digital infrastructure can support financial access.

Policy

Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 28, 2025

Evaluate your data collection strategy to ensure youre prioritizing the right segments and storing data that will help you achieve your nonprofits current goals. Remember to adapt your strategy to align with your organizations goals and the capabilities of your specific database and complementary solutions.

CRM

Grant Writer Team

MAY 15, 2025

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. This ensures your mission and goals are the top priority for all parties involved.

Policy

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

Funders acknowledge the power imbalances inherent in traditional grantmaking and seek deeper partnerships built on mutual respect, honesty, and shared goals. Let it help you brainstorm, outline, or rephrase, but always revise with your mission, tone, and goals in mind. Adapt phrasing, but don’t dilute your equity goals.

Grant

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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. Set explicit goals for convenings and communication chains. +AI: Set your partners up for success: Collaborators are typically busy professionals for whom a grant application is added labor.

AI

HSF House

JUNE 4, 2025

Over the past month, Hayley and I have been working to receive approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) to ensure that all procedures in our study follow proper ethical standards. Hey Everyone! While we await this approval, we’ve begun searching for both study participants and essential supplies.

Metrics

GrantNews

JUNE 12, 2025

Set realistic goals and systematically reevaluate your strategies. Build a Funding Pipeline For your nonprofit to accomplish its goals, you must have the resources necessary to do so. Focus areas include arts and culture, education, social justice and ethics, community enhancement and capacity building, and health and human services.

Funding

Blackbaud

MAY 19, 2025

When youve documented and implemented a strong conflict of interest policy, you protect your team, ensure ethical decision-making, and strengthen your reputation among grantees and stakeholders. I love in legal ethics this idea of avoiding even the appearance of impropriety, Adriana said.

Policy

Center for Major Gifts

MAY 24, 2025

Maybe they deserve compensation that reflects the fact they just delivered your annual campaign goal in one phone callwithout a gala, auction, or raffle basket in sight. Or we can keep pretending this is about ethics and institutional integrity, rather than a convenient excuse for administrative cheapness and credit-hoarding.

Burnout

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Below are key steps to establish a strong foundation: Define Your Fundraising Goal Clarity is everything. If you add marketing perks-like social media mentions, signage, or product sampling-show how these benefits align with the sponsors marketing goals. Define each tiers benefits carefully, ensuring they are attractive yet practical.

Fundraising

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

The Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Grant Professionals Association don’t allow this practice in their codes of ethics. These experts help organizations build realistic budgets that match funders’ goals and show financial responsibility. This prohibition exists for several key reasons.

Grant

Center for Major Gifts

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The goals of these two methods are very different, but there is an ongoing debate about which method is more effective. Most people love to give, especially when it benefits others and not just ourselves. Top-down donating refers to soliciting large donations from wealthy individuals and foundations.

Fundraising

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We are committed to a code of ethics, and there is a culture of learning as we grow and improve in our craft. Mastery seems like a never-ending goal but just as it may be elusive at times, so too are the causes we support, which evolve and change over time. P is for being problem-solvers. D is for dependability. This work is a puzzle.

Grant

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. This realization led me to question not just the ethics of research content, but also the ethics of who gets to research at all. Among the most overlooked groups in this equation are postdoctoral researchers.

Ethics

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

Effective stewardship reporting not only builds trust with donors but also ensures compliance with legal and ethical obligations. Cost Per Outcome Cost per outcome ties your expenses to a specific goal, making it easier to identify funding needs. Compliance Requirements: What Is Essential to Include?

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

When you receive a patient’s first annual fund gift, it often becomes important to do deeper prospect research, with the goal of assigning and cultivating the grateful patient for an appropriate major or transformational gift. With this foundation, teams can start identifying potential donors. Don’t keep records if you don’t need them.

Ethics

DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Impact on Fundraising BBB WGA accreditation signals to donors that a charity adheres to high ethical standards and has been operating for a minimum of two years, which can enhance trust and support. Explore DoJiggy today and see how we can help you achieve your fundraising goals.

Finance

Candid

JULY 30, 2025

In actuality, it has forced us to clarify our values, communicate consistently, and hold one another accountable—not just as an ethical imperative but for the success of the organization. Being able to pursue personal and professional goals knowing that the organization is well taken care of means we return to work with renewed vigor.

Ethics

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Start with Your Mission It is important to focus on your organization’s mission and goals as you begin your grant research. Competency #6: Knowledge of nationally recognized standards of ethical practice; Skill 6.1: Identify ethical practices in the research and selection of funding opportunities.

GPC

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are your nonprofit’s priorities and goals for 2025?” By setting clear, measurable goals and aligning them with a thoughtful strategy, our nonprofit will navigate all challenges head-on. We will collaborate with like-minded organizations to amplify our impact.

Goals

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The goal is to raise $5 million! Apply IDEA principles (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) Prioritize underrepresented voices, remove participation barriers, and ensure ethical storytelling. I'll have mine with extra syrup and social good! Next week, McDonald's will bring back its Shamrock Shake. Marketing Your Cause 1.

Funding

HSF House

JUNE 24, 2025

These environments have expanded my understanding of what it means to engage ethically and collaboratively. One of the most impactful moments from our reflexivity workshop was creating a vision board to represent our identities and values.

Mentor

Candid

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As this trend accelerates, the sector will see an influx of consultantstech-savvy “fairy godparents”helping nonprofits deploy AI ethically and effectively. Instead, organizations are adopting flexible long-term visions30- to 50-year goals, paired with quarterly adjustments to stay on track.

AI

Bonterra

JULY 16, 2025

Socially responsible companies focus on values, ethics, and using their resources to make the world a better place. For instance, CSR initiatives may include environmental sustainability efforts, ethical labor practices or fair trade, philanthropy, or community engagement. Social responsibility.

Ethics

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: A Deep and Sincere Caring About the Nonprofit’s Mission The most important “quality” in a board member would be a real and heartfelt caring about the mission/goal of the nonprofit they will be involved with. Will they focus on the goal/mission?

Ethics

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. These frameworks guide organizations through the ethical and operational complexities of AI integration.

Policy

Candid

APRIL 17, 2025

Similarly, a majority of consumers expect brands to take a stand on social issues , and many are willing to switch to companies that prioritize ethical practices. Start by identifying corporate partners that align with your mission and values, ensuring that your goals match theirs.

Policy

HSF House

JULY 13, 2025

Staying calm and cheerful helped in tense moments, but there were times when callers crossed the line and used threatening or cruel language that I will not repeat here to remain respectful of House Ethics and personal privacy. While rare, a few constituents also came to the office in person. In just two days in the D.C.

Pass-Through

HSF House

JUNE 14, 2025

Whether it’s law school or a master’s in public administration, this summer is a prime time to network, ask questions, and explore what path fits best with my long term goals. Finally, I hope to learn more about the graduate school process. In fact, it was my senior yearbook quote: “I believe in the person I want to become.

Pass-Through

HSF House

JUNE 14, 2025

In regards to critical thinking, I believe that the two classes I will take will stimulate a lot of thought and analysis on different aspects of history, ethical questions pertaining to human rights, international affairs, and policy(both domestic and foreign).

Ethics

HSF House

JUNE 20, 2025

I can describe my relationship with my CBI as more than research, work, or a step closer to my degree; I think of this as art, both critical and collaborative, and I feel a personal connection to these narratives and my passion to amplify marginalized voices (ethically, of course).

Media

GrantNews

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Ethical decision-making is at the core of every nonprofit’s mission. Ultimately, the success of a nonprofit is judged by how it accomplishes its goals and the transparency involved. Why Is Ethical Decision-Making so Important? Ultimately, unwavering dedication to ethical principles upholds the moral compass of a nonprofit.

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Grant Professionals Association, (GPA) in collaboration with the Association of Fundraising Professionals, (AFP) has chosen October to highlight the ethical practices of professionals in the resource development field. Ethical practices in grants and the GPA Code of Ethics have been a cornerstone of GPA since its founding 25 years ago.

Ethics

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

Use ethical and organized data collection methods. However, you’ll need to consider the ethics of collecting this information. The three main ethics to keep in mind are consent, confidentiality, and communication. To enhance donor relations, NXUnite recommends conducting thorough research to learn as much as you can.

Ethics

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 3, 2024

She’ll share strategies for how to collect stories and use them to meet your goals. The ethical considerations of nonprofit storytelling, and strategies to ensure you are a good steward of your community stories. Expect plenty of real-life examples with tactics you can apply to your nonprofit.

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As professionals, we face situations that can potentially compromise our ethics and values, sometimes without even knowing it. Reasons why this is not a best practice are complex, but the GPA Code of Ethics , numbers 17-20, outlines more: 17. Or been told they will not compensate until the grant is awarded?

Ethics

Big Fundraising Ideas

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Ethical Considerations in School FundraisingTransparency, Safety & Legal Compliance What Are the Ethical Considerations in School Fundraising? Ethical considerations in school fundraising ensure that activities are transparent and legally compliant and the well-being of participants is prioritized.

Ethics