Ann Green's Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Given what’s likely in the next administration, nonprofits will need to work harder to combat any government funding cuts and policy changes. They give because they care about your cause and want to help make a difference. Your work is important. Focus on your need and the impact of your donor’s gift.

Donation

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By Christian O’Dwyer, CFA and John Walsh Endowment funds have long been a cornerstone of philanthropy as they provide sustained financial support for various causes across generations. While endowments traditionally focus on perpetuity, a growing number of donors are opting for time-limited or spend-down funds.

Funding

GrantNews

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Housing, Food, Healthcare, Safety, and Education Programs : Funding is available for programs that support vulnerable families and children and provide basic needs such as housing, food, education, healthcare, and safety. Funding supports education, hunger and housing, and equity and social justice.

Grants

Candid

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Forty years later, we remain an influential intermediary funder that raises funds from institutional grantmakers and individual donors. Here we’ll share our insights into how the practice of listening to the community and funding the supposedly “unfundable” on a small scale can achieve what traditional large-scale philanthropy cannot.

Funding

Blackbaud

APRIL 1, 2025

Just as we finally got our footing from a global pandemic and spinning up programs to support communities dealing with extreme weather events, now federal policy shifts have grantmakers and grantees alike scrambling. Some organizations may be facing, or preparing for, attacks on their mission and funding shortfalls.

Funding

Grant Writer Team

MAY 15, 2025

What’s the Best Policy when Writing Grants? 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. Best Policy When Writing Grants The Role of Integrity when Writing Grants GrantWriterTeam ‘s advice? Lead with integrity.

Policy

Candid

APRIL 29, 2025

government cuts longstanding programs and grant funding. While the long-term policy outlook remains uncertain, one thing is clear: Nonprofits need support now. grantmakers, making it easier to uncover new sources of foundation funding. Every day, more and more nonprofits are facing increasing fiscal uncertainty as the U.S.

Funding

GrantNews

JANUARY 3, 2025

Funding for professional development is here for the taking! Grants to Fund Professional Development 1. Grant funding will enhance local capacity to build equitable and sustainable communities with trust-based grantmaking to support collaborative partnerships. Award funding will be for program expenses.

Funding

GrantNews

JANUARY 20, 2025

By connecting organizations with funding sources, GrantWatch helps ensure essential programs have the resources to create lasting, positive change! Funding is for activities that focus on public safety, education, inclusion and diversity, community development and engagement, and health and wellness.

Grants

Gail Perry Group

DECEMBER 11, 2024

While most donors report that tax policy isnt the primary motivation to give to charity, this shows how tax policy still shapes generosity. We're entering a new era where understanding both tax policy and donor behavior will be more crucial than ever. Here's the bombshell: Only 7.5% of Americans now itemize their taxes.

Fundraising

GrantNews

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Grant funding plays a big part in water conservation and quality efforts! of course, the right funding. The Bureau of Reclamation serves as the primary funding agency for these projects, working to extend and preserve the U.S. Funding to Improve Public Drinking Water! Funding is for environmental projects.

Funding

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 8, 2025

Use a No Brief, No Draft Policy Make it official: If you dont know what youre doing, Im not writing about it. And they dont fund confusion. Get the facts in writing and save yourself hours of rewrites and headaches. Youre not being difficultyoure protecting the organization’s reputation.

Proposal

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Employee Roles and Responsibilities Define clear policies regarding employee roles, especially for those who might help with on-the-ground cleanup efforts versus those who will keep the organization running. Your community will need flexible funding throughout the recovery period.

Policy

GrantNews

APRIL 25, 2025

Building Forever Homes with Grant Funding isn’t just a dream, it’s a growing reality for families, veterans, and individuals ready to plant roots. Funding supports education, hunger and housing, and equity and social justice. Funding promotes community involvement in civil and human rights issues.

Funding

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. Update controls as needed to address emerging risks.

Policy

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. For example, an organization’s spending policy might say they can only spend 4.5%

Policy

Blackbaud

JANUARY 10, 2025

The traditional one-year grant cycle has created a funding hamster wheel that often keeps grantees heads-down on applications to avoid a gap in revenue. The growth of trust-based philanthropy principles with multi-year, unrestricted funds is starting to shift organizations from that scarcity mindset to one of abundance.

Award

Get Fully Funded

JULY 30, 2025

In this guide, we’ll explore six alternative funding ideas that nonprofits of all sizes should consider to complement their existing fundraising strategies. Tap Into Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) DAFs have become a fast-growing source of funding for nonprofits. These funds hold vast potential: recent data shows that over 1.7

Funding

Ann Green's Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

You’ll create strategic plans, brainstorm new projects and programs, and organize campaigns to raise the necessary funds to execute your ideas. To build capacity, you not only need to fundraise efficiently but also track and allocate funds to sustain your organization’s operations as it grows. Bookkeeper.

Finance

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

With the right policies and strategies in place, your nonprofit organization can draw from your operating reserves during and after an emergency without putting future operations at risk. Its hard to choose to put funds into operating reserves when that could help one more person transition out of homelessness.

Management

Future Fundraising Now

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Other nonprofit sectors: Funding is back. If you face a loss of funding (direct, indirect, even potential): Ask your donors to help! Keep your messaging factual and apolitical — unless your mission specifically includes policy/advocacy (see below). Even if you have no funding at risk. Spending freezes.

Funding

Candid

JUNE 9, 2025

One question we often hear is: Where does all that funding come from, and where does it go? The dashboards’ maps and graphs show grant dollars from two complementary perspectives: funding awarded to nonprofits in each state, and funding awarded by private and community foundations based in each state. Ready to jump in?

Funding

Candid

MAY 19, 2025

Participants spoke about the urgent need for funding that supports the full infrastructure of their workfrom staffing and transportation to cold storage, volunteer management, and data systems. Some groups have invited elected officials to volunteer at distribution sites so they can see firsthand the impact of funding programs.

Transportation

Candid

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Beyond representation: A commitment to DEI brings in new voices and perspectives The Ford Foundation’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion starts at the top, with our leadership: our executive team, our board of trustees, and our program officers, who decide where our funding goes.

Policy

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Compliance audits, which ensure your nonprofits adherence to federal, state, and local government regulations, as well as your organizations bylaws and other policies across all aspects of your work. Your organization receives more than $750,000 in federal funding per year.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

MARCH 18, 2025

Economic fluctuations, policy changes, climate events, and rapid advances in technology are just a few of the factors fundamentally reshaping how the nonprofit sector fulfills its mission. While challenges remain for funding grantee well-being, some funders are rising to meet them head on.

Burnout

GrantNews

MAY 19, 2025

Nonprofit Grant Opportunities Powering Up in May signal a surge in funding potential for organizations ready to grow and serve. GrantWatch is helping nonprofits meet this moment by connecting them to high-value, flexible funding. Funding supports things like hospitals, schools, and museums.

Grants

Candid

APRIL 23, 2025

For foundations looking to fund these types of strategies, data we gathered recently at the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) makes clear what nonprofit leaders are asking from funders: more flexible funding, more communication, and true partnership. And we know that flexible funding works in moments such as this one.

Nonprofit

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

JUNE 11, 2025

Recent federal funding cuts have had a deep and widespread impact on the nonprofit sector. The current funding system incentivizes competition over collaboration. We need specialists who deeply understand housing policy, food insecurity, or mental health access. million jobs at risk and impacting nearly every U.S.

Nonprofit

Ann Green's Nonprofit

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Your website can be a great marketing tool, but it can also help your nonprofit raise funds. Clearly outline your immediate funding priorities, such as specific programs, campaigns, or goals. Offering insight into how funds are allocated demonstrates accountability and reassures donors that their money is being used effectively.

Donation

GrantNews

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Plus, foundation grants tend to have fewer restrictions, allowing for greater flexibility in how funds are used. Still, the effort is worthwhile, as many foundations strive to level the playing field, giving smaller organizations a fair shot at funding. Funding supports things like hospitals, schools, and museums.

Grants

Grant Writer Team

DECEMBER 26, 2024

However, they are unsure where to find verified funding opportunities they are eligible for. Seek to build and cultivate relationships with those who will be long-term supporters of your cause. A slow and steady approach will win the race. Easy-to-use platforms provide tools for nonprofits to create effective SMS marketing campaigns.

Grants

Candid

APRIL 1, 2025

The field of disaster philanthropy is facing a perfect storm of global crisesconflicts, climate disasters, economic instability, and growing humanitarian needsas disaster relief and humanitarian aid organizations face a changing funding landscape.

Policy

GrantNews

JANUARY 31, 2025

For example, scientific insights and policy proposals are best utilized if understood universally. The thought process behind this is that translation grant funding will help ensure the breakdown of language barriers. Below are verified funding grant opportunities to help kickstart your grant-seeking journey.

Grants

Candid

JULY 28, 2025

Financial pressures—driven by policy changes, tuition increases, and declining public investment—are colliding with growing student needs. At the same time, state budgets are shrinking as federal cuts to programs like Medicaid and SNAP force difficult trade-offs, often at the expense of higher education funding.

Education

Candid

MAY 20, 2025

Federal funding has long been the backbone of psychological research in the United States, supporting a wide array of studies from cognitive neuroscience to mental health interventions. At the American Psychological Foundation (APF), were engaging in ongoing conversations with researchers and organizations who have lost federal funding.

Funding