NonProfit PRO

MAY 8, 2024

Looking for funding to get started? This year’s 2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant cycle offers the Pathfinder Generative AI Award which includes $200,000 unrestricted financial support, $100,000 In AWS Promotional Credit, and numerous technical, training and marketing resources. Wondering how Generative AI can help accelerate your impact?

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

That makes it a critical investment for any nonprofit looking to achieve long-term success. As you take a closer look at your marketing approach, incorporate these tips to improve your current skills and develop new ones: Strengthen your digital marketing capabilities. Explore storytelling strategies.

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Candid

MARCH 25, 2024

Foundation grants can be one of several revenue streams in a nonprofit organization’s sustainable fundraising plan. As a share of all revenue streams, including government funding, program revenue, and investment income, foundation and corporate grants made up 15.3%. Naturally, most nonprofits will try to secure a grant at some point.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

MARCH 6, 2023

REGISTER Certificate in Grant Writing — April 6, 13, 20 & 27 To succeed in today’s competitive grant writing environment, fundraisers and nonprofit professionals must practice and master critical skills to develop winning proposals. Writer Leo Tolstoy once said that “spring is the time of plans and projects.” REGISTER NEW!

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 17, 2024

While she was passionate about supporting children to find meaningful ways to engage their communities, she shared, “ I just didn’t think [teaching] was the right role for me. ” Her quest for more led her to Kennesaw State University, where she discovered a path to greater impact. “ I believe in the power of education.

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Foundation Group

MARCH 25, 2024

Looking for grants to help fund your new nonprofit’s activities? Leverage these grant research strategies to find and secure the best grants for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

By Stephanie Wallace , Marketing Specialist, Keela – a complete software solution for nonprofits looking to grow revenue, centralize and manage data, and deepen donor engagement. That’s where nonprofit grant management software comes in. It’s like a helpful program that makes managing grants easier.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Whether you are about to embark on your fundraising career or are a seasoned veteran looking to take that big leap into a leadership position, looking for that “just right” fundraising job is likely to create enthusiasm. Take a look at them again. Congratulations! You now have in front of you the almighty job description.

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Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 12, 2024

Tips for reviewing your nonprofit’s grant prospects. One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I find grants?” But I don’t hear the more important question: “How do I know the grant is right for me?” As many nonprofits are probably aware, multiple sources offer grant funds. How do I find them?

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 9, 2024

For nonprofits and membership-based organizations, grants are one of the most impactful ways to generate this much-needed revenue. For nonprofits and membership-based organizations, grants are one of the most impactful ways to generate this much-needed revenue. So many grants, so little time!

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Candid

MAY 20, 2024

Foundation for Women’s report, Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less , as of 2017, the median foundation grant awarded to “organizations by and for women and girls of color” was $15,000. Women of color comprised 20.3% of the United States population in 2021, an increase from 18.4% According to the Ms.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“Where do I look to find grants for my nonprofit?” Getting grant funds is REALLY exciting! Also, getting a grant means a funder values your nonprofit and trusts you’ll put their money to good use. It can be tricky, though, AND time consuming if you aren’t sure where to look…and your time is valuable.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. At Candid, we collect data on millions of grants and other transactions awarded by hundreds of thousands of funders across the globe. Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000.

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Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To celebrate you, our amazing community of readers, we look back at the Candid blogs that resonated the most with you this year. How to write a winning grant proposal by Stephen Robertson of Candid Ranking in the top spot: Writing grant proposals. As a bonus, get free sample documents to see what success looks like in practice.

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

Grassroots organizations provide vital services to local communities, yet they struggle to compete for grants against large national nonprofits that can leverage robust development teams, considerable fundraising experience, and established relationships with grantmakers. Funders look to Candid profiles to guide their giving decisions.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2024

These are not the kind of fast-paced—you make an investment, [and] a thousand people have received something within a year or two of the grants being administered—kind of situations that many, many funders are used to. That often looks like longer commitments of funds, rather than a one- or two-year grant.

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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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The NonProfit Times

MAY 16, 2024

This expected increase is consistent with data that showed corporate giving including direct and matching grants grew 14% during 2023, even as giving by individuals fell 9% amid high inflation worries. Instead, they’re looking for results. The same is true of corporate-backed volunteer programs.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Anyone who has sought a grant has probably heard “no” as often—or more often—than they’ve heard “yes.” Grant writing is challenging. Even if you write a perfect grant proposal, it still might not get funded—simply because there is so much competition. But a grant proposal rejection letter presents opportunity, too.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike many cycles of nonprofit operations, grant reporting doesn’t really have a season; it’s all year long. Grant reporting also varies widely by funder. Here we share how we turned traditional, time-consuming grant reporting into a faster, easier, and more efficient process. We call this our narrative report.

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Nonprofit Fixer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Writing grants for your nonprofit organization can entail a lot of work. Not only are you compiling and updating reams of supporting information, but you are drafting a grant proposal that can be thousands of words long. If you start from scratch with every grant proposal, the work of grant writing can become incredibly hard.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2023

With billions of Google searches happening every day, nonprofits around the world use the Google Ad Grant program to connect with people looking to learn more about their cause. Through the Google Ad Grant program, qualifying nonprofits can receive up to $10,000 per month in free advertising spend on the Google Search Network.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In service of this, in this blog, we’re highlighting five things we’ve heard about our grants data that aren’t quite accurate. Myth 1: “Candid grants data” is the same as “990 data.” institutional grantmaking and provide the starting place and scaffolding for Candid’s grants data. Many of the largest U.S. foundations (e.g.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Certificate in Grant Writing. To succeed in today’s competitive grant writing environment, fundraisers and nonprofit professionals must practice and master critical skills to develop winning proposals. , join the Nonprofit Leadership Center for a nonprofit training class or certificate program in the new year. January 2023.

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Nonprofit Fixer

MAY 2, 2024

Nonprofit Management Situation #2 An executive director asks the development director, “I asked you to send 35 grant requests out the door by November 1, but it looks like we only sent 20. Explain the Gap” allows you to paint a picture not just of what you want but of what excellence looks like.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Other grants will likely go to intermediary organizations that support local news, either by making grants themselves or providing support like training, legal support, and technical infrastructure. Since 2005, some 2,200 local newspapers have closed, according to a press release by the MacArthur Foundation.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2024

In an era where digital visibility is crucial, understanding and leveraging Google Ad Grants is indispensable for nonprofits. The grant can be a game-changer for nonprofits looking to enhance their online impact. The program offers up to $10,000 per month in free advertising credits on Google Ads.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

One of the most common questions Candid’s team of expert librarians get on our Ask Us page is “how do I get a grant?” To help answer this question, we’ve created a short (two-minute) video with some quick tips for nonprofits seeking grants. who are seeking grants. often start with the basics, by looking at?a?nonprofit’s?legal

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Candid

APRIL 23, 2024

The data—looking at fiscal year 2022—showed that, although community foundation assets and fundraising revenues were both down from the previous year, grantmaking was up, demonstrating the resilience of community foundation giving. By contrast, non-endowed DAFs allow the donor to grant out the entire fund at any time.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

” (Baseball) “But look at his YAC.” How You Can Reduce Jargon No grant applications! Do NOT copy text from your grant application and use it in your supporter communications. The language you use when applying for a grant is not the language you want to use when asking for help from supporters.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

While Candid is working to reduce that burden broadly, here is one specific way we are trying to help: by providing sample grant proposal documents. There are four major documents that you may need to create if your nonprofit is looking for funding. Sometimes, this can be the first step in a funder’s broader grant proposal process.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. To celebrate 21 years i of grantmaking data, we’re taking a look back at how far we’ve come and how we’ve evolved over the years.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We hear from folks all the time who are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, especially fundraising ideas for a new nonprofit. Others make it look so easy. Others make it look so easy. They’re excited to get their fledgling organization off the ground, and they need the funds to do it. I’ve been there.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Philanthropy back to the drawing board: Shaping a Future Agenda , by Philanthropy Europe Association (Philea)  In the face of ever evolving and mounting crises, this book by Rien van Gendt urges philanthropy to stop looking to the past for answers. This report looks to fill that gap by examining U.S.

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