Research shows the number of donor-advised funds (DAFs) is rising, and contributions to these accounts have reached an all-time high of $85.53 billion. These large pools of wealth dedicated to charitable purposes allow high-impact donors to support the causes they care about. Despite their growing popularity, there are a few things to consider before determining …
As a grantmaking foundation, your primary goal is to place funding in the hands of the organizations that need it most. However, administrative tasks, legal requirements, and unorganized data collection can make finding the best organizations to distribute those funds difficult. Streamlined grants management begins with comprehensive, flexible software. Let’s explore how Nonprofit Cloud can guarantee a seamless, …
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, the Google Ad Grant stands as a beacon of opportunity for nonprofits. With up to $10,000 per month in free advertising credits, this grant empowers organizations to reach wider audiences, drive traffic to their websites, and amplify their impact. But how does it all work? What are the …
Nearly every charity, nonprofit or social enterprise is eligible for at least a few grants. Writing and submitting proposals can be incredibly time-consuming! That is why it is very important to make sure you spend time researching and identifying the best opportunities first. How do you find grants, however? Where do you look for those …
Grant Writing is always difficult and competitive. In a pandemic or other emergency situation, it can seem outright impossible! During emergencies, grant writers are tasked to make their proposals stand out and shine within a context of great global urgency and scant resources. That does not mean you cannot still win grants, only that you …
Fundraising anxiety affects nearly all nonprofits. Not meeting your fundraising goals translates to staff and programs being cut. Your colleagues may be out of a job, and critical social services are diminished, affecting people and communities in need. While similar to burnout, fundraising anxiety is different. Burnout usually results from nonprofit workers being underpaid and …
Are you grant ready? There is so much more to getting grants than just writing and submitting proposals. Chances are, you probably already knew that. You probably also know that competition for grant dollars can be fierce. But do you know how to be fiercely competitive in a way that gets you grants but isn’t …
We love statistics for a reason. They break down our complex ideas to simple numbers and make our work measurable. You don’t need a statistic to know how much statistics help your nonprofit – to backing up the need for your work with real community indicators, to measuring and tracking your impact and comparing yourself …
Nonprofits are eligible for billions of dollars of discretionary funds from the federal government, all listed on one website: Grants.gov. In fact, 26 agencies of the federal government are mandated to re-grant their funding from Congress for social programs, science, defense, and even food and agriculture to state or local agencies and/or nonprofits and businesses …
From organizing a grassroots community improvement project to creating an eye-opening documentary to writing a nonfiction book about marginalized people, you can do a lot of good to make our world a better place! And you don’t necessarily need to use a crowdfunding platform. There are other resources for successful personal fundraising. If you are …
Every nonprofit project benefits from a winning proposal, whether your organization is seeking grant funding, individual donations, or just a clear, strategic picture of what you are doing and why. This part of fundraising and project planning is often the most difficult for nonprofits, though it doesn’t have to be. Any project or program can …
Venture Philanthropy is a buzzword for forward thinking and impact donations that weed through the web of charities and give to the most sustainable and innovative. With a total of 1.5 million nonprofits registered at any time in the United States, what makes an organization truly sustainable, and hence worthy of investment, is its revenue …
Whether you are looking for new prospects, or some fresh fundraising ideas for Earth Day, you need a crash course in proposal writing, or you have no idea how to get started about development planning, these fundraising resources are a must for any conservation, environmental education, or green activist group! Grants These sites …
As if writing proposals for your work wasn’t hard enough, you need to think just as thoroughly about what attachments you are including with it! Too much additional information can counteract your good proposal, while not enough can make you not stand out. You want to give just enough extras, and the right ones, to …
Are you forming a new nonprofit and think the grant money will just pour in the second you start asking for grants? Maybe it will, but more likely than not, you will find it challenging to find foundations and corporations that want to invest in an organization without a track record, no matter how wonderful …
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