Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Grant Writing Essentials Understanding the essential aspects of grant writing is critical for success in securing funding. Understanding the Purpose of Grants Grants are financial awards provided by various funding organizations or agencies to support specific projects or initiatives.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

But applying for every opportunity is a fast track to burnout, not funding. With the difficulties of the current funding landscape , it’s more important than ever to be super strategic about who you approach for funding. Build a Reusable Grant Template Library for Grant Writing Writing every grant proposal from scratch?

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

With competitive Q3 and Q4 deadlines on the horizon and public funding landscapes continuing to shift, organizations that pause, reset, and refocus are poised for success. This mid-year check-in is your opportunity to: Strengthen your nonprofit grant strategy by zeroing in on grants with the highest alignment and funding potential.

Grant

Blackbaud

MAY 5, 2025

But when deadlines get missed and reviews take longer than expected, that delays getting funds to your grantees. Establish, document, and implement evaluation criteria that reflect your mission and funding program guidelines. This includes a formal grading rubric that aligns the questions on your application to specific metrics.

Grant

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.

Grant

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Key practices include setting clear objectives, analyzing metrics, and celebrating successes to foster accountability andmorale. Quantify results: Use metrics like satisfaction scores, participation rates, and budget comparisons to identify patterns. Identify trends: Look for recurring issues or standout successes.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The Goal of an Annual Giving Campaign: Secure the Foundation The primary goal of an annual giving campaign is to raise unrestricted funds to support your nonprofit’s ongoing operational costs and core programs throughout the year. What this looks like depends on your organization’s type and the programs it funds.

Donation

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In the last few weeks of the year, ensure your final 2024 submissions are on time, needed funds are requested, and reports are in order. Year to Date As you review the year so far, review your metrics to illustrate the excellent work you and your team completed. Revised or created policies and procedures?

GPCI

Bonterra

JULY 31, 2025

Post Image: Reuse annotated screenshot of Givebutter Features Auction management including mobile bidding, item categorization, automated bidding, and buy-it-now pricing Donation forms that can be customized with specific fields and an organization’s branding Donor communication such as updates, receipts, automated messages, and templates.

CRM

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

As Vu Le has highlighted, many traditional funding practices—such as overly complicated applications, delayed decisions, and excessive reporting—create unnecessary harm and waste. This isn’t a theoretical concern—reporting requirements and the terms of funding relationships can expose grantees to legal, reputational, or operational risk.

Burnout

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

If a donor gets a bland, templated acknowledgment a week later, what does that tell them? A photo update from the program they funded. They’re raising their hand and saying, “I believe in you. I believe in this work. I want to be part of it.” ” What happens in the hours and days after that gift is crucial.

Retail

Candid

JULY 7, 2025

Federal funding for nonprofits is in a state of flux, and the future of many government grantmaking programs is uncertain. That said, as discussed in our recent webinar, Funding Beyond Federal: How to Diversify Funding to Ensure Stability in Uncertain Times, there are ways to bolster your nonprofit’s financial stability in current times.

Manufacturing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Narrative change challenges the outdated idea that impact must be quantified in sterile metrics. Trust-based giving replaces rigid reporting and earmarked restrictions with multi-year, unrestricted support, on the belief that nonprofits know best how to use their funding. It may cost you funding. The reckoning is here.

Readiness

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

She has helped nonprofits triple their funding. She has helped nonprofits triple their funding and over thousands of students have taken her grant writing courses, and she also happens to host the Grant Writing Simplified podcast. And then of course the most obvious, your funding is tied to it. That saves a ton of time.

Instrumentl

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

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Retail

Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Donation request letter example 12 fundraising letter templates What is a donation request letter? Based on your needs, you can adapt this formatting to the various letter templates in the next section. This template can be referenced for any type of fundraising effort. Well cover: What is a donation request letter?

Template

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan.

Calendar

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. You can get a downloadable project charter template on our resource center. Give your project an easily identifiable name, such as Fund Accounting Software Implementation.

Software

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2023

What a Nonprofit Annual Report Is Your annual report has one job: to provide an overview of your nonprofit’s activities and key metrics for a specific year. It might be helpful to choose the tool first so you can pick the template you want to use. Be sure to customize the template so it’s on brand for your nonprofit.

Template

Joe Garecht Fundraising

JANUARY 10, 2022

Yet there are ways you can stack the deck in your favor and have more success with winning grant funding for your organization. Many nonprofits think they can do grant research once, generate a list of 10-20 foundations, then just write proposals for those foundations each year until some of them start to fund the organization.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Do we have the funds this year to maintain our programs? Most organizations face frequent budget cuts, which creates organizational uncertainty and a scramble for new funding options. You can clearly see which revenue sources or grant-funded parts of your organization might be draining your budget instead of adding to it.

Finance

Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

Grant Professional Association’s GrantZone has over 70 discussion threads on grant metrics, from understanding if a new position’s expectations are realistic to helping directors identify accurate metrics for a team. Having a universal understanding of what an organization hopes to gain from metrics creates purpose.

Metrics

Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. A grant proposal is a structured document that outlines the need for funding, your nonprofit’s objectives, the proposed project’s scope, and the budget you need to accomplish your project.

Proposal

Instrumentl

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll learn what how to get grant ready and what background information and more to have right at your fingertips, so you get to what’s really important – describing the great program that needs funding, today!

Grant Readiness

CauseVox

MARCH 30, 2022

They host barbecue competitions to raise money for the National MS Society and for what they’ve coined Meat Bike: funding bikes and race fees for people currently battling MS. For each campaign, she builds her CauseVox campaign site, creates a template, and then clones it for all of the fundraisers involved, all in just a few minutes!

Fundraising

CauseVox

JULY 10, 2024

This bold move sparked the first Shower Strike, now an annual event raising awareness and funds for clean water. Despite these obstacles, Well Aware has effectively funded and built clean water systems in East Africa. Moved to action, she and a friend pledged not to shower until they raised enough money to build a well.

Metrics

Candid

MAY 13, 2024

Based on that feedback, the fund works to reduce the burden on potential grantees and identify barriers that might discourage them from applying. Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees. Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees. Modeling equitable grantee- and constituent-centered practices.

Metrics

Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

ChatGPT can help you jumpstart your GivingTuesday prep by creating communication templates based on prompts you type in. The more specific prompt you provide the AI, the better template it can give to you. Type in non-sensitive information about your organization and ask ChatGPT to create a short email template to send to your donors.

ChatGPT

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. They’re transactional by nature and not a good long-term solution for funding. Diverse funding streams are the key to success. A good speaker with an emotionally powerful story can engage donors and sway them to help fund your mission.

Fundraising

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 3, 2024

In her work, she has fulfilled many different fundraising roles and has served as a grant reviewer to determine who received grant funding. Are you interested in writing that doesn’t just look good but also that highlight’s your organization’s unique selling points to multiply your grant funding? We are here to help.

AI

CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

Peer to peer fundraising allows organizations to raise more funds and awareness with less effort. Flexible metric counting for donations, activity, and impact. This should include templates for emails, texts, and social media posts as well as information about the campaign. Easy donation form with mobile payments.

Fundraising

Just Write Grants

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Forget wrangling hyperactive kittens – let's transform that chaos into funding zen with some of my favorite grant management best practices. A strategy ensures funds are used effectively, maximizing the positive impact of your projects and attracting future support. Stay updated on funding priorities and connect with potential allies.

Grant Management

Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Foundations and grantors are using data to assess the impact and effectiveness of their funding. With thousands of dollars worth of consulting, instant downloads, templates, samples, and exclusive discounts at just $299.99, Grant Writing Boot Camp might be exactly what you need to help take your grant writing strategy to the next level.

Grant Writing

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Download your Virtual Fundraising Planning Guide and Template: Here are our top 23 ideas for virtual fundraising ideas : 1. Crowdfunding is all about target-based fundraising so we suggest creating a crowdfunding page to raise $x amount of dollars to fund an x outcome. Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.

Fundraising

Just Write Grants

APRIL 23, 2024

Proposal Templates: Save time with pre-formatted structures for common proposal sections. Develop a boilerplate outlining how you'll track progress and impact, then customize it with specific metrics for each grant. Creating Adaptable Templates: Think of proposal sections like building blocks.

Grant Writing

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2021

First of all, it’s hard to quantify the impact of your work—something foundations and donors are increasingly demanding from the nonprofits they consider funding. We not only raised the funds the organization desperately needed to address a growing crisis, but it gave everyone on staff a much needed emotional boost.

Fundraising

Fundly

JUNE 20, 2024

Nonprofits can raise funds, acquire new donors, build community partnerships, and spread awareness of their missions. Consider metrics such as the total funds you raised and the number of new donors you acquired. Top Giving Tuesday Ideas to Raise More There are countless possibilities for raising funds on Giving Tuesday.

Goals