Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Elevate your proposals using refreshed templates, updated data insights, and a stronger commitment to equity, ensuring your applications stand out in a crowded grant space. Did they include stronger metrics or more compelling storytelling? Invest in templates and training Smart tools pay for themselves.

Grant

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Key practices include setting clear objectives, analyzing metrics, and celebrating successes to foster accountability andmorale. Quantify results: Use metrics like satisfaction scores, participation rates, and budget comparisons to identify patterns. A well-structured review goes beyond numbers and focuses on the overall experience.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

If a donor gets a bland, templated acknowledgment a week later, what does that tell them? They’re taking a step of trust. They’re raising their hand and saying, “I believe in you. I believe in this work. I want to be part of it.” ” What happens in the hours and days after that gift is crucial. We see you.

Retail

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As organizations explore these funding options, they may also be interested in the resources available for grant writing templates to effectively present their needs and objectives. Refer to effective resources such as grant writing templates. For assistance in developing these components, consider using grant writing templates.

Funding

Bonterra

JULY 31, 2025

Post Image: Reuse annotated screenshot of Givebutter Features Auction management including mobile bidding, item categorization, automated bidding, and buy-it-now pricing Donation forms that can be customized with specific fields and an organization’s branding Donor communication such as updates, receipts, automated messages, and templates.

CRM

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

Go beyond metrics to show what you’ve learned and how you adapt your programs. Funders acknowledge the power imbalances inherent in traditional grantmaking and seek deeper partnerships built on mutual respect, honesty, and shared goals. But it also means showing up with integrity, transparency, and consistent communication.

Grant

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The Goal of an Annual Giving Campaign: Secure the Foundation The primary goal of an annual giving campaign is to raise unrestricted funds to support your nonprofit’s ongoing operational costs and core programs throughout the year. What this looks like depends on your organization’s type and the programs it funds.

Donation

Fundly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Access real-time data on campaign updates, page views, donations received, and other key metrics. Fundly Fundly is designed for all types of campaigns, from nonprofit disaster relief to sports team fundraising. Across these initiatives, the platform has helped raise more than $330 million so far! Performance analytics.

Funding

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

Over 70 funders have requested copies of our award letter templates, and hundreds joined sessions this year focused on aligning grantmaking practices with learning and equity. A shift toward relationship-based approaches is not only more humane but also more effective. But funders are either unaware or pretend that dynamic isn’t there.

Burnout

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Evaluation Plan : A strategy for assessing the success of the project, including metrics to measure impact. Grant Writing Guides and Templates Having access to comprehensive guides and templates is beneficial for individuals during the grant writing process. Statement of Need Justification of funding requirements.

Grant Writing

Candid

JULY 7, 2025

Develop a sponsorship toolkit: A sponsorship toolkit should include audience demographics, visibility opportunities, employee engagement ideas, and metrics for measuring community impact. This worksheet will help you create templates and talking points you can use in phone calls, meetings, or emails to potential corporate supporters.

Manufacturing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Narrative change challenges the outdated idea that impact must be quantified in sterile metrics. Ever feel like philanthropy is entering a new era, but your grant writing process is stuck in 2005? You’re not imagining it. The call for participatory grantmaking, unrestricted operating support, and narrative justice is growing louder.

Readiness

Wild Apricot

JULY 24, 2025

User Engagement Metrics like bounce rate, dwell time and click-through rate show whether your site is delivering value. WildApricot’s mobile-friendly templates and drag-and-drop website editor make it easy to build a site that looks great on any device. The short answer: Absolutely! But not in the way you might expect.

AI

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Over 2,100 students have taken her grant writing courses. She also launched a podcast to inspire others to make a difference. Instrumentl Partner Webinars are collaborations between Instrumentl and its community partners to provide free educational workshops for grant professionals. But other than that, Teresa, feel free to take it away.

Instrumentl

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

GROWTH: Unlimited organization-wide monthly webinars and live Q&A workshop, access to tools, templates, and training for scaling nonprofit growth. Im thrilled about the future of GrowthForce as it joins G&A Partners, and Im equally excited to dedicate myself fully to The Fundraising Accountant," Stephen shared. rail-container).hide();

Retail

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Forms and Templates. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. What are the key functions of a sales operations group? Here’s everything we’ll cover in this guide.

IT

Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Donation request letter example 12 fundraising letter templates What is a donation request letter? According to the Global Trends in Giving report , 33% of nonprofit supporters in the United States and Canada say email is the communication tool that inspires them most to give. Well cover: What is a donation request letter?

Template

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. These templates come with a number of tips that we’ve pulled together to help you through the process of planning. You should be able to pick up these templates and start working with them right away.

Calendar

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2023

What a Nonprofit Annual Report Is Your annual report has one job: to provide an overview of your nonprofit’s activities and key metrics for a specific year. What a Nonprofit Annual Report Is Your annual report has one job: to provide an overview of your nonprofit’s activities and key metrics for a specific year. Well, good news!

Template

Joe Garecht Fundraising

JANUARY 10, 2022

4: Have Several Grant Templates in Place. If nonprofit grant writing is a numbers game, then you need to get as many grant proposals out as possible… and the only way to do that is by having several grant templates in place that you can quickly customize to send out to potential funders.

Grant Writing

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Others ask very few questions and don’t require much in the way of hard metrics. But regardless of what type of proposals you may be working on at this moment in time, there is one thing I can say with certainty: You will run into proposals that ask you to write out the goals, objectives, and outcomes for your program or project.

Goals

Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

Grant Professional Association’s GrantZone has over 70 discussion threads on grant metrics, from understanding if a new position’s expectations are realistic to helping directors identify accurate metrics for a team. Having a universal understanding of what an organization hopes to gain from metrics creates purpose.

Metrics

Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2022

Check out the sponsorship packet template below (and then download a copy to keep on hand). Easil is a drag and drop design platform with a variety of professional templates to choose from. The tools offer thousands of professional templates that you can edit to meet your specific needs. Your potential sponsors are busy.

Template

Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

5 best practices for writing a convincing grant proposal How to write a grant proposal for nonprofits in 11 basic steps Where to find grant opportunities Grant proposal templates Grant proposal do’s and don’ts What is a grant proposal? Planning your evaluation Decide which metrics you’ll use to measure the success of your project.

Proposal

Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Once you have a template built, you simply update the numbers in the formula tab and the visuals and graphics on the dashboard tab will update automatically. Once you have a template built, you simply update the numbers in the formula tab and the visuals and graphics on the dashboard tab will update automatically.

Finance

CauseVox

MARCH 30, 2022

For each campaign, she builds her CauseVox campaign site, creates a template, and then clones it for all of the fundraisers involved, all in just a few minutes! She also loves that CauseVox makes it easy for individual fundraisers to customize their own page, while following the template Meat Fight gives them. Pro Fundraising Tip.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

You can get a downloadable project charter template on our resource center. Goals and Metrics What does success look like? Document the specific goals you plan to accomplish, including any key performance metrics (KPIs) you’ll use to measure success. Here are 10 essential elements that every project charter should include.

Software

CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2021

CauseVox peer-to-peer fundraisers see a pre-built template when they create their page. Colleen was able to create a boilerplate fundraising appeal for personal pages that lived in that template, and put in an image that fundraisers could use right out of the gate.

Template

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2015

It includes professional email templates, marketing automation, and transactional capabilities, all designed for nonprofits. You can choose from several professional email templates, customize your message, strategically determine who will receive it, and track who opens it and what happens next. Email Metrics. How Does It Work?

Metrics

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As mentioned, we recommend creating different thank-you letter templates for different gifts, such as online donations, pledge donations, fundraising event gifts, sponsorships, and tribute gifts. In fact, studies show that 45% of donors said it was an outstanding thank-you letter that inspired them to give again. Handwritten letters.

Template

Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

ChatGPT can help you jumpstart your GivingTuesday prep by creating communication templates based on prompts you type in. The more specific prompt you provide the AI, the better template it can give to you. Type in non-sensitive information about your organization and ask ChatGPT to create a short email template to send to your donors.

ChatGPT

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Use a Mobile Email Template. Using a mobile-responsive email template for your welcome series will ensure that it is opened and read by the largest number of people. Review Your Email Metrics and Freshen Your Welcome Series Twice a Year. Craft a Series of Email Messages. Craft a Series of Email Messages.

Template

CauseVox

JULY 10, 2024

Impact Metric (Noblesville Tankers fundraising page) Another critical campaign component was an impact metric, which Well Aware had not been able to implement on other platforms. This consumed a significant amount of time that could have been spent on their core mission.

Metrics

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Making the most of metrics means helping your organization’s leadership understand and apply the data purposefully. These metrics measure outcomes for programs which can be compared to previous ones.

Metrics

Candid

MAY 13, 2024

Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees. Some collaboratives fund grantees to work toward a clearly defined, shared goal—and use shared outcome metrics across grantees. Some collaboratives fund grantees to work toward a clearly defined, shared goal—and use shared outcome metrics across grantees.

Metrics

Selfish Giving

APRIL 29, 2019

For example, if they are a lower-level partner, create a templated wrap report that showcases your brand and mission, but allows for easy plug-and-play metrics per partner. Go Beyond the Metrics. Numbers and metrics are always great! You can enlarge this image by clicking on it. They make it their own. Collect From All.

Metrics

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The last couple of years have been all about virtual when it comes to fundraising. Thanks, coronavirus. But out of this huge challenge, we’ve seen some amazing creativity crop up as nonprofits revamp their fundraising approaches to be safe and successful. So here it is: our favorite 7 crowdfunding and peer-to-peer website examples from 2021.

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