Blackbaud

JUNE 3, 2025

A clear view into how funds are allocatedwhether for classroom resources, facility upgrades, or extracurricular programsgives your families confidence in the schools ability to manage resources effectively. Want to learn more about how fund accounting software can help your school operate more efficiently and improve the family experience?

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Grant Professionals Foundation (GPF) was established in January 2006 to ensure resources are available to educate, credential, and assist grant professionals who secure the funding necessary for not-for-profits to serve the greater good. Continuing close relationships with past colleagues and clients are integral to Brad G.

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Future Fundraising Now

AUGUST 13, 2024

A white-paper about childhood traffic injuries and fatalities. It should be the white-paper. You’ll know a lot more about the issue after reading the white-paper than you would after seeing a child wobble toward traffic. Yet most nonprofits do “white-paper fundraising” — talking to their donors’ left brains.

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Blackbaud

MAY 14, 2024

Instead of increased profit, your focus becomes the expenses—and the transparency around those—because your stakeholders now care more about how your funding is spent instead of increasing revenue. In the nonprofit space, you’ll be tracking both unrestricted and restricted funds as part of your overall organizational income.

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Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this early-stage document, which we often call a Vision Statement or White Paper, you’ll outline your campaign’s vision and plan. The feedback and early commitments you gather from this initial White Paper will inform the final, full document, ensuring that it resonates deeply with your broader donor base.

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Blackbaud

JULY 22, 2024

For example, you may have several different grants, but if some of them are backed by federal funds, either directly or as pass-throughs, you could be vulnerable to federal budget cuts that affect your sector. By running different scenarios in your fund accounting software, you can plan for various possibilities and contingencies.

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Grant Writer Team

OCTOBER 26, 2023

However, do you know the A to Z grant terminology needed to convince a prospective donor to fund your project over some other worthy cause? Date of Completion: The designated time funder sponsorship ends and all work on a grant-funded project is completed. Using the funds for another purpose could cause the grant to be rescinded.

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Candid

JUNE 23, 2022

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19: Examining giving in 2021 , in May 2022 that details COVID-19-related philanthropic funding in 2021. As highlighted in IDIS’s white paper, Perspectives for Brazilian Philanthropy in 2022 , there is new energy from younger generations.

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Blackbaud

MAY 15, 2024

These were the top three things we implemented based on our findings: Simplified our application: We cut down on the number of questions we asked by eliminating redundant ones and stuck to only what was needed for funding decisions. Learn how with the white paper, How Grantmakers Can Improve Data Health and Maximize Impact.

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 27, 2023

Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) Additional Information on Eligibility: This funding opportunity is ONLY available for Cooperative Ecosystem Study Units under the Piedmont South Atlantic / South Florida Caribbean CESU Units.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 24, 2024

From these dashboards, you can drill in to get more detail, such as why three application reviews are overdue or how your funding totals have changed year-over-year for a specific category. Learn more about dashboards and reporting in Blackbaud Grantmaking with our white paper, 3 Ways Dashboards Help Grantmakers Make Sense of Their Data.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Your fund accounting system is a centralized location to house important grant documentation, invoices, and other program expenses. You need partners that understand what it means to be a nonprofit, from managing restricted funds to filing their 990 series.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Below we share tips from our white papers, Visual Analysis Best Practices and Which Chart or Graph Is Right for You , to explain when to use a line chart or bar chart. In the example below, we want to see trends over time, by sector, in the flow of venture-financing funds. But what about the overall funding trend?

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Blackbaud

JUNE 26, 2024

Blackbaud has an excellent white paper from a 25-year private school veteran offering some solutions to these hiring and retention challenges. Declining Birth Rate As birth rates decline and populations age, the effects on K–12 enrollment, funding, and institutional sustainability are profound.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

The 99%, i.e. the rest of us ordinary mortals, have traditionally been the largest source of funding for American nonprofit organizations, the reliable backbone of philanthropy ever since the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, and probably before. So how do we make sure that our funding base is balanced to represent the 99% as well as the 1%?

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 12, 2024

You’ve got to use funds wisely, aligning with your mission and honoring donor intentions. Know Your Funding Types One of the first steps to strong nonprofit financial management is to understand your funding sources and how they affect your financial planning and reporting. Smart money moves are vital for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

Access to quality research provides nonprofits and libraries the ability to improve services, strengthen funding proposals, and share knowledge within the field. Finding Funding with the Foundation Center. Join our free webinar on Friday, January 18 at 11 a.m. Register today as space is limited! View the following archived webinars!

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2011

Here are just a few things that Kathryn Willson is involved with: The Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps program. The white paper The Central Role of Cloud Computing in Making Cities Energy Smart. I didn't know much about her work until I read the interview. she did with Maya Albanese of GreenBiz.com.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

eBook/checklist/white paper/report. eBook/checklist/white paper. The post 9 questions to help you align your mission, fundraising and marketing to attract donors more effectively appeared first on Get Fully Funded. The last question to answer is a straightforward one – what format should you use for your resource?

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 19, 2023

Regardless of the size and scope of your project, I’m going to share with you what we use in our office as a starting point for planning grants of all sizes, scopes, and funding sources. We start with asking three questions that will end up being the foundation for the proposal. They are: What is the problem you are trying to address?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Despite increasing buzz surrounding technology funding, the vast majority of charities aren't able to fund their technology sufficiently. Nonprofits and funders are stuck in an unhealthy cycle in which they acknowledge that more tech funding is needed; yet the investments never quite occur. It's a free download.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2015

There are legal consequences to failing to be in compliance and there are also funding consequences. Analyst firm IDC, in a white paper sponsored by Microsoft, suggests these steps for your migration plan : Establish a destination — Determine where you want to take those functions currently housed in an old infrastructure.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

” Nearly 200 enterprise organizations leverage Cobalt’s Engagement Dynamics AMS and certification offerings to enhance membership and credentialing management and donor engagement, automate and streamline business processes, drive revenue and attract funding for greater community impact. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("pid",

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

It's a Microsoft-funded report by Christine Egger on the history of nonprofit technology assistance providers (NTAPs) like TechSoup, 501cTech , Idealware , Network for Good , NPower , NTEN , and Tech Impact. Facebook has updated its free white paper specifically for charities on effectively building a presence on Causes.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

Templates for meetings, white papers, and responses to common press inquiries Resource lists Staff contact lists Answers to frequently asked questions and how-tos Three Scenarios Where Your Nonprofit Could Leverage Slab Below are three scenarios where you could use Slab to facilitate staff training and share frequently referenced materials.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Community Funded. Stay on top of fundraising best practices through their white papers, solution sheets, and more. Grow matching gift funds through a 360MatchPro integration. Community Funded. UC Innovation. Salesforce. Wilson-Bennett Technology. Custom Donations. Why We Love This School Fundraising Platform.

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Peak Proposals

MAY 13, 2021

Once established, your library can help you respond to funding opportunity announcements and other types of opportunities more quickly and with less effort. Unsuccessful proposals can also include excellent content, so don’t limit yourself to gathering content only from funded proposals. graphics, proposals, white papers, etc.)

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Peak Proposals

MAY 13, 2021

Once established, your library can help you respond to funding opportunity announcements and other types of opportunities more quickly and with less effort. Unsuccessful proposals can also include excellent content, so don’t limit yourself to gathering content only from funded proposals. graphics, proposals, white papers, etc.)

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Planned Giving

JULY 22, 2024

In their influential case studies white paper, planned giving experts Russell James and Michael Rosen stress that communications should focus on the value to the donor, enhancing their sense of wellbeing rather than centering on mortality. Instead, emphasize the enduring impact of their generosity.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 21, 2025

Their operations are sustained through a combination of hospital system funding, philanthropic contributions, and government grants, underscoring the collaborative effort to fulfill community benefit requirements while addressing health inequities. Want to bring more equity into your community benefit initiatives?

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Blackbaud

MAY 22, 2025

Proactive planning, including allocating funds for emergency preparedness, can help minimize the financial strain these events cause. Finally, shifts in federal funding have wide-ranging effects on private schools, especially those providing specialized programs or Individualized Education Plan (IEP) resources.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 17, 2025

Nation-State Cyber Threats Targeting Education In addition to the types of threats above, malicious actors are targeting educational institutions to steal data, funds, and even academic and medical researchall to benefit foreign government entities. This white paper can be your guide. What Can You Do to Mitigate Risk?

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Blackbaud

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These efforts are most impactful when hospital investments are combined with foundation support through blended funding. By collaborating with their foundations, hospitals can access external funding to help finance renewable energy projects. This is another area where hospital foundations can bring in external dollars.

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