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Top 10 Kickstarter Grants for Your Startup Business!

GrantNews

This resourceful list is designed to help reduce the stress of searching for startup funding and get you one step closer to achieving your goals! In addition to funding, businesses will receive support in strategic planning, operations, introductions and networking, and staffing.

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What could equitable investment in Black nonprofit leaders look like? 

Candid

Therefore, instead of making a significant financial investment in Black-led organizations, funders encourage Black leaders to participate in mentoring and/or leadership development programs. Any shortcomings, missteps, or miscalculation on the part of Black leaders seems to reinforce the ideas that they are unfit for their positions.

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What do you believe are the most critical areas for improvement to achieve your mission?

Blue Avocado

Our main goal for 2025 at the Shirley-Eustis House Association is to build a broader network of businesses, institutions, and well-connected individuals who know about us and what were doing. We are focused on slow and steady growth rather than rapid, erratic growth to meet our goals.

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2024 Blue Avocado Year in Review

Blue Avocado

By careful examination of your nonprofits budget priorities where you allocate your time and resources you can gain insights into your organizations true motivations and goals. Strategic planning for your nonprofit doesnt have to be a painful process. You want a good volunteer to stick around!

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How to Evaluate Grant Opportunities: When to Say No to a Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

A thoughtful “no” today can create space for a strategic “yes” tomorrow. This could be a great fit if you already incorporate STEM activities into your mentoring sessions. Funders want to support organizations that know who they are and where they’re going, not those trying to shape-shift for every opportunity.

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What are the best strategies and tips for managing a nonprofit board of directors?

Blue Avocado

Have well-used, and thoughtfully created guiding documents, such as bylaws, policies, strategic plans, values, mission and vision statements, etc. If it’s not in the strategic plan, that will help reign in rogue ideas and projects you don’t have capacity for at the moment.

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Boost Your External Funding via Effective Leadership

Grant Training Center

Leaders guide their teams, inspire their people, and drive their organizations towards achieving their goals. Coaching and Mentoring Coaching and mentoring are valuable tools for developing leadership skills. Mentoring, on the other hand, is a relationship between a more experienced leader and a less experienced one.