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Use It Or Lose It: Charities that Limit Giving Options Limit Donations

Planned Giving

I offered to help him set up a Charitable Gift Annuity (CGA) funded with 45,000 bushels of corn. per bushel, that translated into approximately $202,000 of funding for the CGA. They had no idea how to fund a CGA or a Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) with grain, leaving him frustrated and looking elsewhere.

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Latest sector news

Strategic Grants

Catch up on whats happening across the world of funding, philanthropy, and research with the latest updates from Team SGs busy research team. Further discussions around women and philanthropy powered byShe Gives were catalysed following an eventin late November at Government House,hosted by the Governer General, Her Excellency Sam Mostyn AC.

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Nonprofit Leadership Isn’t Perfect, and That’s the Point

Blue Avocado

She shared with me the many challenges she faces on a daily basis: A lack of resources and limited access to additional funding, a suboptimal team due to a constrained talent pool in an unideal labor market, and an abundance of great ideas but a shortage of time, knowledge, and skills to execute them.

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Federal Grants Are Beasts—Here’s How to Slay Them Without Losing Your Mind

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

And yet, theyre also some of the most lucrative, prestigious, and transformational funding opportunities out there. Keeping a Federal-Ready folder with: Updated resumes Letters of support/MOUs SAM registration DUNS/UEI number Indirect cost rate agreement Leveraging past applicationsyours or from similar orgsas templates.

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100 Delusions

Planned Giving

Youre inviting someone to fund impact. So was Sam Walton. Because nothing says urgency like being buried three clicks deep. Delusion No. 26 Were grassroots. Translation: Were broke and proud of it. Delusion No. 27 We dont want to sound like were begging. Unless youre actually begging. Delusion No. 29 Our cause sells itself. Not TikTok.

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

The bill aims to ameliorate the complex nature of the grant application process, as well as the lack of transparency and accountability around funding decision processes, which are currently opaque at best. The GREAT Act requires that federal grant recipients establish and use data standards for information reported to funding agencies.

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How Can We Use Trying Times to Advance Our Careers –

Grant Professionals Association

And How Can What GPA Offers Us as Members Help Us Meet Our Goals The pause in federal funding and other Executive Orders have brought up uncertainties that may make many of us anxious and unsure. I was asked to come interview for a contract position funded by a federal flow-through grant to the state. Connections matter.

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