Tag: Fundraising

How To Reduce Manual Grants Work for Better Funder Relationships

How To Enhance Your Funder Relationships | Best Practices In social work, grants are the lifeblood that keeps your programs running and your mission alive. But let’s be real — managing grants can be a time-consuming and often frustrating process. The good news is that streamlining your grant management practices can reduce your workload and […]

Nonprofit Fundraising Ideas: Creative Strategies for Success

Creative Strategies That Inspire Donations Fundraising is the lifeblood of nonprofit organizations. It’s how you turn your mission into action. But let’s face it: Coming up with fresh, engaging nonprofit fundraising ideas can be a challenge. That’s why this article will help you shake things up and breathe new life into your fundraising efforts. Let’s […]

Impact Reporting Simplified: How To Save Time and Secure More Funding

Reporting Impact to Stakeholders Impact reporting is essential for a nonprofit’s operations, guaranteeing it can track and communicate its successes to stakeholders. However, the best metrics, strategies, and report templates often vary by your goals and organization type. Nonprofits should first understand their stakeholders’ expectations, including why they’re contributing. From here, they must adopt multiple […]

Corporate Fundraising: Strategies, Best Practices, and Ideas

Guide to Navigating Corporate Fundraising Are you looking to expand the funding streams for your nonprofit human services organization? Corporate fundraising can be a game-changer, opening doors to resources and long-term partnerships.  This article discusses the fundamentals of corporate fundraising, shares proven strategies for success, and explores top fundraising ideas for engaging corporate partners. Get […]

5 Funding-for-Human-Services Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Overcome Funding Gaps As a social work professional, you know firsthand the vital role that funding plays in delivering essential human services to communities in need. However, securing and sustaining adequate funding for your programs can often feel like an uphill battle. This is especially true when you have to navigate through a limited source […]

Reporting Impact and Communicating to Grant Funders

The previous post outlined the primary types of capacity-building projects and reviewed how transformational successful capacity-building implementation have been, for example, nonprofits. In this post, we’ll delve into reporting as well as the need for positive and open lines of communication with funders.  Nonprofits, as public charities, are subject to investment from both public and […]

Leveraging Nonprofit Software to Create a Successful Grant Proposal

Finding and receiving just the right grants for your growing nonprofit can be a crucial step in securing the funding you need to move forward with projects that will make a difference, and leveraging nonprofit case management database software when creating your applications can be an important step in keeping everything you need in one place and […]

How To Build Healthy Relationships With Funders

In previous posts, we’ve reviewed best practices regarding grantwriting and communicating your story to funders. We’ve even talked about the importance of third-party validation. Another key to success is understanding how to build stronger relationships with funders. Funders come in many types, but the two main categories that we’ll review in this article are individual donors and program officers. Donors […]

The Power of SMARTIE Deliverables

So, how do we build trust? You build trust by ensuring that you’re following through on your commitments and promises to funders. This is partly why the engagement phase is so important, each follow-up, touch point engagement moment underline commitments and builds trust.  As you’re moving through the initial cultivation process or renewal phase, funders […]

Telling Your Organization’s Story to Grantmakers

As an organization, you have to be able to pivot between funders to position yourselves for grants for which you’re eligible. The adaptability needed to convey different tones and key points in your work will ensure your longevity. In this post, you’ll learn more about how to build your institutional strategy to ensure sustainability. Nonprofits […]