Candid

MARCH 6, 2024

Candid did something bold in 2023: We asked that funders put their trust in us by providing unrestricted grant support for our planned mission-critical work—projects we believed would make the biggest impact for the sector at large. Studies show that nonprofits need flexible dollars to succeed. At Candid, we couldn’t agree more.

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Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2023

How to write a winning grant proposal by Stephen Robertson of Candid Ranking in the top spot: Writing grant proposals. Breaking down its typical sections, this blog offers a step-by-step roadmap for how to craft a winning project proposal. As 2023 concludes, we’ve put our twist on this yearly tradition.

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll not only explore the importance of building strong networks and how to find the folks with whom to prioritize building relationships. In this blog post, we’ll not only explore the importance of building strong networks and how to find the folks with whom to prioritize building relationships.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 119

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 14, 2022

As a grant writing coach, sometimes I think that I have heard it all between my own personal experiences and the stories that my students relay to me. Sheleia, I need a grant writer; how can I guarantee they will win an award before I hire them?” Grant Writers Deserve Trust. That’s a $25,000 bill!

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

It seems like you have to answer the same questions over and over in every grant proposal. For more grant-related guidance, check out Government Grants 101: Readiness, Research, and Writing the Proposal , an eLearning course I created with Candid. So, what’s the best way to stay organized while keeping your content fresh?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? Purpose of the grant (e.g.,

Homelessness 112

Homelessness Foundations Values Advertising 112

The Volunteer Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Creating, developing, and sustaining corporate partnerships is a win-win scenario for both your nonprofit and the businesses that support it. Developing partnerships presents a win-win-win scenario for your nonprofit, the community, and your corporate partner. What is a corporate partnership? What isn’t it?

Volunteerism 86

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

This is the story of how that outcome was narrowly avoided, underscoring the urgent need to amplify local lending power in Puerto Rico and beyond. The lack of access to financing [meant that the grant] nearly destroyed the organization. Winning the Lottery? Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2

Finance 98

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Product Fundraiser Product fundraisers offer your donors something in return for their contributions, creating a win-win situation for your organization and your supporters. Digital fundraising opens up new possibilities for reaching a wider audience and raising significantly more for your cause as a result. Merchandise.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 19, 2024

Many nonprofit professionals first interact with grants by helping write a grant proposal. If you’re tossed into a grant writing project with no guidance or training (just the task of securing crucial dollars for your mission), what should you do? Grant writing is a fairly universal, shared activity among nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

JUNE 12, 2023

You will remember that we had previously spoken to Allyson Fryhoff of Amazon Web Services, who explained how AWS provides many tech tools to nonprofits. The Kennedy Center was the winner of the 2022 AWS Imagine Grant Award. Sarah shares how winning this grant and working with AWS has made an impact on her organization.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 4, 2024

But amid the stark challenges we face, one source of hope is how social movements build resilience through collective care and healing. Through that work, we have developed an understanding of how care, healing, and safety strategies are integral to liberation and inseparable from building power.

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Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

My goal is to show them how to recruit event sponsors and cause marketing partners. It's not an easy task as they are small and have limited staff, time, and likely little experience working with companies beyond grants. Ten businesses that are supporting No Kid Hungry this holiday season and how they plan to raise money.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

AUGUST 4, 2013

In addition to individual giving , grants are another piece of a well-rounded funding plan. Of course, the best way to succeed in getting grants for your organization is to have a solid plan in place for securing them. So, what if you don’t have a solid grants strategy in place? You’re in luck.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Image credit: Fabio Bracht on Unsplash This article was co-produced and co-published with Civil Eats. From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s ⎯ and the world’s ⎯ food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. Journalism is welcoming the new infusion of philanthropy. There’s more.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 118

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to attract corporate matching gifts: Dear Charity Clairity, I have a question about how to attract corporate matching gifts. Matching gifts are a win-win-win. We receive very few, and I wonder why more donors don’t take advantage.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you know there are more than 87,000 foundations that award grants? . That’s where the power of grants can come in. In this blog post, we’ll first explore why grants are important to nonprofits. Why grants are important to nonprofits. Grants can be a great way to diversify your nonprofit’s revenue. Let’s dig in!

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you know there are more than 87,000 foundations that award grants? . That’s where the power of grants can come in. In this blog post, we’ll first explore why grants are important to nonprofits. Why grants are important to nonprofits. Grants can be a great way to diversify your nonprofit’s revenue. Let’s dig in!

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Instead, it encourages foundations to start fresh by reassessing how they best live up to their responsibility and promises made to invest private resources for the public good. Candid’s Issue Lab is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing social sector knowledge. Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023. 

Public and Social Policy 119

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The Charity CFO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

How do nonprofits make money? Of course, it raises an all-important question for leaders: how can your nonprofit make money? Here are some tips to show you how nonprofits make money and help your organization hit its financial goals. . Nonprofits exist to meet a societal need or provide a public benefit. So what are those ways?

Nonprofit governance and management 98

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

To prove to George just how much impact he has had on the world, Clarence shows him what would have happened to his town and loved ones if he had never existed. To prove to George just how much impact he has had on the world, Clarence shows him what would have happened to his town and loved ones if he had never existed.

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Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Learning grant writing is a rite of passage for many nonprofit professionals. Many of us first dive into grant writing with minimal (or even no) prior experience. Writing a grant proposal might seem like a big, scary task. Successful grant writing comes down to organization, careful decision-making, and experience.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 7, 2023

I’ve lost count of how often we’re asked to share our list of grantees or refer our “favorite” one. million in the United States and 11 million worldwide (which doesn’t include mission-driven for-profit ventures or individual grant seekers).

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: Filip Kominik on Unsplash In 2020, organizers and funders in California came together to collaborate and share ideas on how to increase 501(c)(4) dollars in the state. I think COVID and the uprising of Black folks in 2020—I think that really just set the fire that we needed to say, ‘The time is now.’

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Nonprofit Megaphone

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Corporate Sponsorships and Partnerships: Win-Win Propositions A corporate sponsorship or partnership offers a mutually beneficial relationship that goes beyond mere financial transactions. This creates a win-win situation that can lead to long-term, sustainable relationships.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

After all, a policy win might be progress, but to truly change a system requires embedding into the system itself the capacity to enforce and implement this policy. A strong system accelerates progress in opportune moments, deepens implementation of wins, and better protects gains when they are under threat.

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Joe Garecht

JANUARY 10, 2022

One of the most common questions I get asked by organizations is how to find and win more grants. For most fundraisers, nonprofit grant writing is incredibly frustrating: in many cases, it seems like a roll of the dice. Here they are, in no particular order: #1: Systemize Your Grant Fundraising Program.

Foundations 52

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2022

It may be how you first discovered them, and it’s likely a big part of their strategy to stay on your radar. So… how does a nonprofit advertise successfully? Search advertising: text ads that show up in search engine results, namely utilizing the Google Ad Grant or paid Google Ads. Think of a brand , any brand.

Advertising 120

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2024

One major obstacle is that foundations are reluctant to award grants to emerging organizations. So, how can a new nonprofit develop a pool of prospective donors when they’re still building their visibility and reputation? Small, local organizations are more trusted than larger institutions , but you need to win that trust.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? Purpose of the grant (e.g.,

Homelessness 53

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To help answer that question and to see if it lines up with best practices, we asked nonprofit communicators to tell us how often you share different types of content on social media. And despite memes, how-to content, and opinion pieces doing well on social media, over half of nonprofits say they seldom or never post that type of content.

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

It's called grant writing. more to grant writing than just "writing.". Successful grant writing always starts with. When you're writing a grant proposal – and especially as you're editing one – ask yourself, "Is the writing.?". Remember, there's more to grant writing than just "writing." Like editing!

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Nonprofits 52

Lets Talk Nonprofit

JULY 5, 2023

The same question holds true for grants. ARE YOU WRITING A GRANT PROPOSAL? I have experience here, as someone who used to read proposals for a living (I was a program officer) and also as someone who's written many winning grants. Of course, you want to answer grant application questions clearly and concisely.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

We believe that we must fundamentally change how philanthropy both conceptualizes and implements its work, and we are cognizant that it will take time, strategic thinking, and perseverance to make these changes. We believe that we are working in a liminal time and space. We have to get this right.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The table below shows how nonprofits that receive non-cash gifts (in addition to cash) have been much more successful in growing their top lines. The table below shows how nonprofits that receive non-cash gifts (in addition to cash) have been much more successful in growing their top lines.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Today’s question comes from a Director of Development who wants advice on what to do when the board thinks their individual fundraising success will depress grants. Do you have any suggestions on how to help our board understand that funders want to support a winning proposition rather than a sinking ship?

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 19, 2024

Leveraging a top-of-the-line software solution grants your union access to features that fit its unique needs. Leveraging a top-of-the-line software solution grants your union access to features that fit its unique needs. As a union leader, you likely wear many hats to keep your organization running smoothly.

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