Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Revised or created policies and procedures? Spend some time to update and refresh your toolkit of grant templates and answers to commonly asked questions as well as your organization's supporting documents. Year to Date As you review the year so far, review your metrics to illustrate the excellent work you and your team completed.

GPCI

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

If a donor gets a bland, templated acknowledgment a week later, what does that tell them? 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. That their gift went into a machine. rail-container).hide();

Retail

Strategic Grants

JULY 9, 2025

For your best possible chance at success: Pay attention to the submission format, noting any supporting documents or specific templates that need to be included with your response. systems or templates). Many Requests for Tender (RTFs) provide a program logic template for you to complete. policies) or relevant procedures.

Government

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. We’ve also seen growing interest across the sector in Grove’s simplified award letters and conversational practices.

Burnout

DoJiggy

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Effective Policies : It allows you to develop effective policies and procedures for animal care and handling, ensuring consistency and quality. From text-to-donate to customizable templates, DoJiggy provides the flexibility and support to tailor your campaigns. Decide on required adoption fees for each type of animal.

Policy

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

” Life Insurance Gifts : “Making our organization the beneficiary of a policy you no longer need.” 6 Establish Gift Acceptance Policies ADVANCED (IMPORTANT, BUT NOT URGENT) Start simple. Your policies protect your nonprofit legally and set internal expectations. Later, you can expand.

Policy

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

One nonprofit leader shared six lessons learned from a bad board experience organizational policies to help your nonprofit set expectations, prevent dysfunction, and avoid a laundry list of problems. With a convenient accounting procedures manual template , though, now you can make one in as little as 30 minutes!

Budget

Blackbaud

APRIL 7, 2025

Finally, external factors like enrollment changes or new policies can drastically impact your schools financial outlook, creating more uncertainty in an already challenging process. You can easily export templates based on their budget last year and upload their new versions directly into the system.

Budget

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Become a Stronger Grant Writer in Just 5 Minutes Subscribe Search through 20k+ open grants Find grants to grow your nonprofit See grants now 10 Ready-to-Use Cold Email Templates That Break The Ice With Funders Transform funder connections with our 10 expert-crafted cold email templates. Instrumentl All rights reserved

Instrumentl

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

Grants often come with strings attached: timelines, deliverables, data collection, reporting, evaluation, staffing, and sometimes even public events or policy alignment. When you evaluate grant opportunities, consider not just the front-end work of applying, but the back-end responsibilities if you receive the award.

Grant

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Become a Stronger Grant Writer in Just 5 Minutes Subscribe Search through 20k+ open grants Find grants to grow your nonprofit See grants now 10 Ready-to-Use Cold Email Templates That Break The Ice With Funders Transform funder connections with our 10 expert-crafted cold email templates. Instrumentl All rights reserved

Instrumentl

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

Accelerated Campaign Creation: Constant Contacts AI-powered platform creates turnkey marketing campaigns in minutes, including recommended copy, imagery, email templates, and an ideal communication schedule for each element of the campaign. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

AI

Wild Apricot

JULY 23, 2025

Why Use an Event Budget Template It seems as though events season is always upon us. Having one ambiguous budget for an event can get messy quickly without a template to follow for each aspect of the event. Utilize these templates and modify them for your organization’s events. Sticking to an event budget.

Template

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. window.dfp_npp_ros_rectangle_2 = googletag.defineSlot("/124057991/npp_ros_rectangle_2", [[300,250],[300,600]], "napco-ad-npp_ros_rectangle_2").setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("pid",

Retail

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

We've got a template for you. So for those of you who have been struggling with identifying what's a good fit funder, what's not a good fit funder, our team put together a 40-page guide with printable templates that you can kind of run through each different opportunity on, to then gut check yourself. Calendar alerts.

Instrumentl

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Court Interventions Are Slowing Executive Overreach Thanks to recent rulings, some of the most harmful policy rollouts from the Trump administration have been blocked or reversed. This legal advocacy focuses heavily on education equity, climate resilience, and community justice programs—areas often targeted in ideological policy shifts.

Federal Grants

Wild Apricot

MAY 14, 2012

If you need to develop a social media policy, here's an overview of a great workbook and social media policy template from Idealware.

Policy

Planned Giving

JUNE 23, 2025

Will templates offer an affordable, straightforward, and accessible solution for drafting your will. Legality of a Will Made with a Template Regardless of whether you draft your will independently or with a lawyer, it must meet certain legal requirements to be valid. Is a Will Template Right for You?

Template

Candid

AUGUST 7, 2024

Discussing budgets and policy was uncomfortable for the partner—and not something her nonprofit typically does. Despite working in diverse geographies and issue areas—from environmental justice to workforce development, arts education to grief support—these nonprofits share similar concerns about the risk of engaging in policy advocacy.

Policy

Double the Donation

MAY 6, 2024

Gift acceptance policies are an essential but easily overlooked part of nonprofit management. To avoid touchy (and potentially damaging) donor relations and legal situations, it’s worth taking the time to study up on these policies and how to create […]

Policy

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In a webinar with Peter Panapento , co-founder and philanthropic practice leader of Turn Two Communications, he shared best practices when creating an AI policy for your grantmaking organization. Here are some of the tips Peter shared for creating an AI policy that your organization will actually use. Meet your staff where they are.

Policy

Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

First published in 2011, this Gold Avocado article is a downloadable template — designed to take the guesswork out of creating an accounting practices manual and make it doable in as little as 30 minutes! So here’s a template. for this template. Download the Word document, and everything you need to fill is in in red.

Template

Wild Apricot

JUNE 23, 2010

Google Wave's steep learning curve and "invitation only" policy made the collaboration tool less than useful for most nonprofits, when it first launched. But take another look: Wave is now faster and more stable, with quick-start templates and tutorials - and it's finally open for everyone to use.( read more ).

Template

Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Volunteer policies and procedures: It is critical that you have policies and procedures in place that minimize potential problems that could arise.

Policy

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

Here are some best practices for effectively managing staff turnover and onboarding with your grantmaking software, including some methods of reassigning existing records to new staff members, establishing clear security roles, and building a comprehensive policies and procedures guide to keep everyone on the same page. Likely no.

Policy

Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2015

That's where telework policies come in. Get Started with These Tips and Sample Telework Policies. " It is simple and short, and may be all you need to start crafting a policy. Tina Nacrelli's Telecommuting Policy Development — Top Ten Tips is also a good starting place. Benefits of Telework.

Management

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

Blackbaud

JANUARY 15, 2024

Also review your formatting guidelines and templates. Do you provide templates so grantees understand exactly what information you are looking for, such as financials? You may check in with a few trusted grantees on the amount of time it takes to complete the application.

Applicant

AmpliFund

MARCH 13, 2024

Ensure that you have SOPs and communicate the policies well with the right training to support your team. You may need to use specific templates and provide documentation. Ultimately, having the right processes in place is essential to be able to stick with this plan. Generally, things you'll want to track include: How much was spent?

Budget

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Perhaps not every organization can be as optimistically trusting as HubSpot, but you can help build that trust by creating social media guidelines or policies for employees. Idealware explains how to do just that in a handy article that includes links to its policy templates and workbook. Are your staff tweeting up a storm?

Media

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

Objective 3: Clarifying Sections that Recipients or Agencies have Interpreted in Different Ways : While this objective does not constitute specific policy or process changes, it does help to diminish confusion when questions are raised. This has led to a more robust definitions section and ensures a lack of ambiguity.

UEI

Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This resulted in a review of TCE’s grantmaking policies that may have inadvertently disadvantaged and disqualified smaller budget organizations, many of which were BIPOC-led. The community foundation’s also transparently outlines the data collection process , including helpful tips and templates for grantees.

Demographics

Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

Whenever you’re using an unfamiliar online tool, look up where the tool stores its information and what the privacy policy is regarding information sharing. You can ask ChatGPT to create a thank you phone script for your volunteers, create an email thank you template, thank you messaging for a specific campaign you’ve run, and more!

ChatGPT

Candid

JUNE 26, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions, real-life examples, and templates to help you master the art of writing successful grant proposals. Hone existing skills and ensure that you’re equipped with the latest methods to achieve your fundraising goals with these recent titles.

AI

Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

You can use Slab to collaborate on posts with colleagues, share company-wide policies and procedures, and store reference material for use either by a team or the company at large. HR policies) or information relevant to a subset of employees (e.g., In Slab, any templates you create can be found under “templates” in the main menu.

Management

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

They should put internal controls in place and help write policies to prevent loss, theft, or confusion, using current b est practices. The Board will be responsible for monitoring how closely financial activity matches the actual budget, looking into how much programs and services cost, and whether that cost is appropriate.

Strategic Plan

Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

Managers can create reports using pre-built templates or customize their own to get detailed insight on their organization's data. To ensure your organization's sensitive personnel data is never compromised, it employs a strong security policy, including 256-bit SSL encryption, fully compliant data centers, and daily backup.

CRM