Grant Professionals Association

JULY 1, 2025

However, many funders remain hesitant to relinquish control over how grant dollars are used. While general operating, unrestricted (GO) grants are ideal for nonprofits, project-restricted grants continue to be funded more successfully. This method is especially valuable in a time of economic uncertainty.

Funding

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For example, you need to make sure the grant or endowment money you are spending for a particular program is being spent according to the grant or endowments terms. Now, instead of each dollar being budgeted to a single account, it can be tracked across accounts, programs, and even grants.

Budget

Blue Avocado

JULY 8, 2025

” — Stephanie Lile from Harbor History Museum Overreliance on Grants Threatens Nonprofit Missions One of the greatest challenges nonprofits face today is diversifying their revenue streams. To build more resilience, nonprofits must think beyond traditional grants and government grants.

Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Grants lead to paid interns and a full-time volunteer coordinator. ” , once again, nonprofit leaders came through!

Retainer

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

For nonprofits, this means prioritizing activities like prospect research, donor appeals, meetings with major donors, and grant writing. Nonprofit Quarterly estimates that retaining a donor costs ten times less than bringing in a new one. Expand Capacity Without Expanding Payroll When you uncover capacity gaps, think creatively.

Budget

GiveSmart

JUNE 20, 2025

With contributions to DAFs at an all-time high, and grants from DAFs to charitable organizations reaching a reciprocal all-time high, it is time to educate yourself on DAFs and learn how your organization can secure donations from these billion-dollar entities. Additionally, DAFs’ funding is exponentially outpacing DAFs’ grant-making.

Funding

Center for Major Gifts

MARCH 22, 2025

A five-minute call makes donors feel genuinely valued and appreciated in a world where many supporters feel overlooked or taken for granted. A quick, heartfelt phone call can be a game-changer when it comes to retaining donors and inspiring future giving. Put This Strategy into Practice Today!

CRM

Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Leaders are accountable for bringing resilient and imaginative colleagues into their organizationsand retaining them. But the current terminations of USAID grants put our stabilityand, more importantly, our programs for childrenat risk. This may seem obvious, but its often overlooked. We raise significant funds from the U.S.

Nonprofit

Strategic Grants

JANUARY 29, 2025

Build and maintain a collaborative culture within your teams and invest in professional development to retain skilled staff and volunteers. In addition to grant funding, consider exploring corporate partnerships, merchandise sales, or fee-for-service offerings. Find out more here.

Strategic Plan

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Grants Specialist Fundraising doesn’t just consist of revenue from donors—grants are another valuable revenue stream for nonprofits. A grants specialist will handle all aspects of grant fundraising, focusing on submitting proposals to secure grant money from foundations, government agencies, corporations, and more.

Fundraising

GrantNews

JANUARY 17, 2025

Margarita Sarmiento Apply For Grants The team at GrantWatch expects organizational culture management to be an emerging trends in 2025 and we have the tools needed to help make it happen, at least with regard to finding and applying for grant funding. We suggest using our SMART Grant Search to locate verified grants.

Grants

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Faculty support and development: Provides funding for professorships, research grants, professional development, and attracting top-tier educators. This flexibility is invaluable, contrasting with many grants or major gifts that are highly restricted and can only be used toward specific projects. This is where annual giving comes in.

Donation

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

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Retail

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 16, 2025

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AI

NonProfit PRO

JULY 3, 2025

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Retail

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

of new donors are being retained year-to-date, and even repeat donor retention decreased by 4.6%. Staffing The National Council of Nonprofitsreports that nonprofits around the country are reporting significant challenges retaining staff and filling vacancies. Fundraising has been showing troubling trends for a while now. Only 13.8%

AI

NonProfit PRO

JULY 21, 2025

This opens the door to competitive differentiation for those who are willing to invest in a proactive approach to retaining individual donors. With the average cost of acquiring a new donor five times greater than retaining an existing one, organizations would be remiss to ignore this key aspect of their strategy. rail-container).hide();

Retail

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The McGregor Funds Director of Learning & Reporting, Vanessa Samuelson, puts it this way, “Our grant partners and their communities hold the vision, wisdom, and know-how to move towards our collective aspirations for a more just world. One grantee noted, I’m a big fan of multiple-year grants.

Burnout

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

Nonprofits Struggle to Obtain Second Gifts and Bring Back Lapsed Donors Donor acquisition remains soft with new donors having dropped 10.9%, and new-retained donors (first-time donors in 2024 who gave again) having fallen 11.4%. Meanwhile, loyal repeat-retained donors had a less severe drop of 6.1% addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

Recruiting, training, recognizing, and retaining volunteers requires dedicated resources, yet funding for these efforts is almost nonexistent. According to Points of Lights report, of the $1 trillion in grant dollars awarded by foundations from 2016 to 2025, only 0.19% was allocated to volunteer engagement.

Training

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Ive been writing grant proposals since dinosaurs walked the earth and have seen various attempts to reform the federal grant-making process. Congress passed the Grants Transparency Act of 2023 (H.R. The Grants Transparency Act complements the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act passed in 2019.

Federal Grants

NonProfit PRO

JULY 10, 2025

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Retail

GiveSmart

JANUARY 23, 2025

Improving your nonprofits storytelling can help your organization retain donors and grow funding, grants, and corporate interest in 2025. Even with limited resources and time, you can improve how you share your mission and successes to inspire donor engagement and giving.

Fundraising

HSF House

JUNE 5, 2025

Now, I am seeking to push my abstractions into three-dimensional space, creating sculptural environments that retain their painted qualities while also offering a more interactive way for viewers to explore the gallery space. I found this process immensely satisfying, and my latest works continue to be inspired by new explorations.

Retainer

NonProfit PRO

JULY 25, 2025

One particular grant-writing position proved difficult to fill. This grant writer ultimately raised more than $13 million before her retirement. How do they hire, train, and retain people? Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

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AI

GrantNews

MAY 1, 2025

Read on as we dive into the fascinating world of volunteering, along with a short list of sample grants designed to help nonprofits attract, train, and retain volunteers! Finding Volunteer Grants On GrantWatch Grants can fund costly website updates, volunteer recruiting events, or improve the volunteer experience.

Grants

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

First, I've talked with some of you about the government's hold on grants and funding. Effective audience research is essential for nonprofits looking to expand or retain their audiences. Three things this week. Fortunately, the hold was lifted. But what happened SCARED THE out of people - and rightfully so.

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

The federal grant funding update for Q2 2025 reveals intensified volatility across the nonprofit landscape. Executive orders, delayed disbursements, judicial interventions, and administrative overhauls have left grant writers navigating what experts are calling a “ tsunami of uncertainty. ”

Federal Grants

NonProfit PRO

JULY 8, 2025

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Retail

NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 23, 2024

Here are eight ways to engage and retain DAF donors. With no signs of slowing down, DAF donors are a big source of donations for nonprofits.

Retainer

Professional Grant Writers

JANUARY 28, 2025

Grant writing retainers operate through an ongoing contract between a grant-eligible organization and a professional grant writing company. The post How grant writing retainers work appeared first on Professional Grant Writers. These agreements typically cover a.

Grant Writing

Millionaire Grant Lady

MARCH 12, 2024

This is the fourth of a six-part series on 2024 grant predictions. In this series, Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates are sharing our insights into foundation giving. There is an important part of the puzzle that this equation omits—the grant writer. Qualified grant writers are in short supply, though.

Grants

Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

Taking precedence — for instance — over grants or business support. One that includes realistic goals for grants and corporate support, individual support, program support, and events. Retain staff. When it comes to foundation grants, stay on top of your research. But what’s missing in GivingUSA is YOU. This one is key.

Letter Of Inquiry

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

Untangling the New Uniform Grant Guidance It’s the news that all our grant enthusiasts and compliance champions have been waiting for – the new Uniform Grant Guidance has been issued! The Top 10 Uniform Grant Guidance Updates Drum roll, please…. This allows for more flexibility at the end of a grant award period.

UEI

GrantNews

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Workforce Grants are important for our future. This is where workforce grants come in. Easing the Transition Innovative training programs, the practical application of technology, and the use of technologically advanced tools will help the American tradesperson retain employment in the long run.

Grants

Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A grant writer is vital for organizational growth, but hiring a full-time grant writer is not always the best fit. Grant funding is an essential part of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. Some nonprofits make grant writing a small part of someone’s job description. Read our article to learn more.

Grants