AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software used by nonprofits to communicate with donors and drive fundraising programs. Cloud-based CRM tools are routinely used to collect, analyze, and leverage data that can help accelerate fundraising.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

Charitable organizations see spikes in activity as they respond to disasters, host seasonal events, and perform outreach to their donor base during fundraising appeals. The development team found Amazon ECS simple to understand and use, while the flexibility and serverless nature of Fargate compute provider was a perfect fit for the workload.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nonprofits are using the cloud for fundraising, donor and member management, and communications. However, despite having access to new data sources provided by these technologies, 76% of nonprofits still report that they need to develop a data strategy for their organization. How Data Lake for Nonprofits works.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Nonprofit organizations are increasingly using videos to fundraise, raise awareness, and attract new members or donors. A fictitious customer, the Example Educational Fund of AnyTown, supports schools in its area by organizing fundraising events and creating programs for students.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We develop proposals that demonstrate what is going on and how we can help, usually within a minimal character count within an online portal that was not meant for grant applications. (No DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 5 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such.

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A Library Writer's Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

The Journal of Advancement, Communication, and Development in Academic Libraries (open access journal) publishes articles that offer strategies and case studies for practical application of strategic fundraising and communication in academic libraries. A user account must be created to submit an article or section item for review.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Finally, open source software tends to be available at low or no cost; CiviCRM is available at no cost, although you can optionally donate to the development team. To continue, you must have an AWS account with a user that has permissions to launch CloudFormation stacks and create resources. In my case, I entered civicrm.

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Grants4Good

AUGUST 25, 2023

To make it easy for you, here are 5 prompts that you can use to save time and effort in your organization’s fundraising and grant writing work right now. First, open your free ChatGPT account here. Ask ChatGPT: “Develop a SMART Goal for my project. Are you in?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, a nonprofit organization’s fundraising application might only need an RTO/RPO target of hours. There are many different infrastructure as code (IaC) tools available, like AWS CloudFormation , the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) , or Terraform. Every organization and workload are different. longer time to recovery).

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

They are firefighters, teachers, administrative assistants, program directors, accountants, and even elected officials and board members. Find professional development opportunities for you to learn about the grant profession and best practices. I suggest you start small when it comes to fundraising goals. Be prepared to fail.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 26, 2024

Writing applications, staying accountable to funders, and reporting on results are just a few of the planning tasks required. With the help of integrations, your CRM can pull data from other software platforms like your volunteer management and accounting platforms to provide more comprehensive reports.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2020

In fact, we’re going to begin with tips for working remotely, because if you can’t collaborate online, you won’t be able to prepare a grant application or launch a successful fundraising or crowdfunding campaign. FindTime for Outlook: FindTime is a meeting scheduling tool developed by a group of developers at Microsoft.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

MAY 20, 2021

Terrill shares why he launched the YaFavTrashman Instagram account last June, what it’s like to be a new community organizer, and why he’s so passionate about building relationships with people in positions of power. From fundraising for PPE to organizing block clean ups, Terrill is all about doing good, being kind, and spreading love!

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Iron Sharpens Iron

MAY 20, 2021

Terrill shares why he launched the YaFavTrashman Instagram account last June, what it’s like to be a new community organizer, and why he’s so passionate about building relationships with people in positions of power. From fundraising for PPE to organizing block clean ups, Terrill is all about doing good, being kind, and spreading love!

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

Unless the proposal requires a very simple budget that must be embedded into the narrative as a small table, it works best to develop the budget in Excel or a similar spreadsheet tool, such as Google Sheets. Either way, a poorly developed budget affects the project’s implementation.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Accounting Tools. Creating user accounts with limited access can help ensure your nonprofit maintains effective data security. . Accounting Tools. Assess nonprofit accounting tools for solutions with features such as: Program budgeting. Grant Management Software. Internal Communication Tools . Post-grant management.

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Grants4Good

MAY 30, 2023

It’s free (at least for now) and you can open an account at OpenAI, login and start asking it questions. If you’re in the nonprofit fundraising and grant writing field like me, you might ask ChatGPT: Tell me about [name of your city] in two paragraphs. Simple, right? The best way to learn about ChatGPT is to start using it!

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Grants4Good

JUNE 17, 2023

Over time, I developed hacks and systems to make myself more efficient, especially by organizing my boilerplate content in ways that allowed me to modularize my grant writing to reuse content blocks. Margit: I can appreciate the time and effort it took to develop this level of user-friendly software. Want to learn more?

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Foundations Are Not All Alike Another exception to the rule that foundations give out grant funding is the case of a not-for-profit institution, such as a hospital, that has an affiliated foundation that operates as the institution’s fundraising branch and applies for grants and solicits individual gifts on its behalf.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 30, 2023

For more senior-level jobs, the job description might list “lead the development and submission of grant applications to relevant foundations, government agencies, and corporations in collaboration with business development and executive staff.” Subject-matter experts can assist with a proposal’s development in several ways.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 30, 2022

4: Develop relationships with funders. This is such a huge topic, but I will say that one of the first things you need to do if you haven’t already is hire an accountant who specializes in nonprofits. A standard grant narrative is a generalized grant proposal that you can update and tailor to specific funding opportunities.

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iGrantWriters

JANUARY 5, 2022

Grant Priority Areas Funding will be available for projects that address the priority areas below: Rule of Law and Government Accountability â?? Youth Development and Women Empowerment â?? These projects should address improving the rule of law, judicial independence, good governance, and the fight against corruption.

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Grant Central USA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Participants learn about proposal development, research techniques, and writing grants and the various types of grants, including federal, state, foundation, and corporate grants. Proposal Development A central focus and first course of grant writing certification is the art of proposal development.

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Grant Central USA

JULY 4, 2023

It can also help individuals make more informed decisions when they write grant proposals, as it will give them a deeper understanding of advanced grant development in areas such as prospect research, project design, proposal narrative and advanced grant development. Let's take a look at how they compare.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

You’ve seen our team share information from MyFedTrainer.com, podcasts on the topic from Fundraising HayDay, and our own team talk about and present on “How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap,” so we’re excited to bring you this guest post today with some tactical tips to help with your upcoming grant report.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Parks agencies can engage citizens as programming providers, community experts, and volunteers, by creating parks and recreation committees and systems for developing and offering program for each facility. But often planning engagements are constrained in terms of knowledge development and the ability to truly participate.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Even accounting for inflation, stock market volatility, political turmoil, and post-pandemic “revenge” spending, the largest transfer of wealth in American history is taking place daily. But not including essential preparations for planned giving could turn a generous gift into an accounting and programming nightmare for a nonprofit.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs).

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ResourceAssociates

AUGUST 17, 2020

Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act. GrantSolutions User Account Access. Rachel brings over 25 years’ experience in nonprofit excellence, program development, training, evaluation, and grant project management to Resource Associates’ Outreach Team. Notice of Award (yes, it referenced itself). Fraud Alert.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. Basically, it's back to the concept of the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. The gd contractor on the master plan kept refusing my request to ask for their plans.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, probably the most prominent third place in the US is the coffee shop--over the last 30+ years "coffee culture" has developed, with a big push by Starbucks, in the US in the place of bars. s As You Are bar issues fundraising appeal to prevent closure ," Washington Blade. Photo: " D.C.’s Gay bars as safe spaces.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Once secured, incorporate grant funds into your financial tracking systems to maintain accountability and alignment with your annual plan. If you’re unsure how to categorize or record a grant properly, consult with an accountant to ensure compliance with accounting standards and funder requirements.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

To optimize for SSS’s budget and modest data volume, we’ve developed a custom AWS Lambda image capable of running Apache Spark within the runtime. For the other use case, we use Fivetran to ingest data from external sources (clinical, marketing, and fundraising data). It also includes manual approval for production deployment.

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