Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

With public funding in flux, private foundations shifting priorities, and technology changing how proposals are crafted and reviewed, nonprofits need way more than strong writing to stay competitive. 5 Key Nonprofit Grant Trends Reshaping 2025 1. AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and Notion are now standard in nonprofit offices.

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Super Library Marketing

JUNE 30, 2025

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library Ray Holley , the communications manager for Sonoma County Library , is fascinated with economic development and planning. And check their social media accounts to see which stories receive a lot of engagement. Pitch what’s most likely to get picked up.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

We’re officially halfway through 2025, and your nonprofit grant strategy deserves a strategic boost if you want to finish the year on a high note. This mid-year check-in is your opportunity to: Strengthen your nonprofit grant strategy by zeroing in on grants with the highest alignment and funding potential.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 15, 2025

This exercise encouraged us to build our initial frameworks for automation and procedures and helped identify where we needed to apply additional focus—leading us to our overall networking and account strategy. As a part of our enterprise agreement, we periodically engage with our AWS Nonprofit team to do a cost evaluation.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Every grant your nonprofit secures is a step toward growing its impact. To help ensure each grant drives meaningful change, this guide will explore ways grant management influences your nonprofits finances and how to optimize the process for greater impact. Use your nonprofits operating budget as a foundation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 8, 2025

Intelsat is recognized as the market leader delivering media content from 6,500 TV and radio channels reaching 2 billion viewers globally, accounting for 31 percent of total annual revenue as of the third quarter of 2024. Business challenge Intelsat knows that distributing a variety of content across platforms is challenging.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

SibsForever is a nonprofit created to support and provide a safe community for people who have lived through the loss of a sibling. I decided to develop and deploy the SibsForever application on AWS for two main reasons. First, I knew that AWS offers a $1000 annual cloud credit to nonprofits.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

In 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched curated solutions for nonprofits in the AWS Solutions Library and AWS Marketplace. Today, AWS announced the addition of new nonprofit solutions in the AWS Solutions Library and AWS Marketplace. These solutions help meet the most important needs of charities and membership-based organizations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 10, 2024

Developing solutions in-house can be complex and resource-intensive. Solution overview: Associating multiple AWS accounts to publish and consume data from Amazon DataZone Most real-world workloads involve managing data from multiple sources, which can become complex very quickly without a way of cataloging the data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Managing donors, members, and constituents is essential to the success of most nonprofits. There are several CRM applications that focus on the needs of nonprofit organizations. In this blog post, I’ll discuss a no-cost, nonprofit-focused CRM called CiviCRM. In my account, the launch template has the name civicrm-wordpress.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nonprofits are using the cloud for fundraising, donor and member management, and communications. To address this challenge, today Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partner Salesforce.org are announcing the general availability of Data Lake for Nonprofits – Powered by AWS. With this move online, they have access to more data than ever.

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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. The Media2Cloud on AWS solution in the AWS Solutions Library can help nonprofit organizations store, catalog, and search their video libraries in a way that is cost-effective, and that scales to meet any need.

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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. With improved data insights, nonprofits can personalize communications with constituents, strengthen donor relationships, enhance operational efficiencies, and more.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2020

Nonprofits, particularly small community-based organizations, struggle to fund their programs during a typical year. We’ve also included suggestions on how to ease the transition to remote work since many nonprofits are having to close their offices. The videos have been quick to make, edit, and distribute.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Nonprofit organizations focus on a specific mission to impact their members, communities, and the world. In the nonprofit space, where resources are limited, it’s important to optimize the impact of your efforts. An AWS Account. A default virtual private cloud (VPC) available in your AWS Account. Virginia) Region.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Like most financial institutions, Columbia CU offers standard financial services, such as checking and savings accounts, loans, investments, and financial planning. We developed a multi-year roadmap for cloud adoption that began by migrating our disaster recovery to the cloud, which we are on schedule to have completed by mid-2023.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

StateRAMP is organized as a 501c(6) nonprofit and is governed by a board of directors. A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be deployed as a single entity in an account and an AWS Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. How is StateRAMP different than FedRAMP?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

At Amazon Web Services (AWS) , we enable nonprofits of all sizes around the world to harness the power of cloud technology, helping them advance their mission and serve their beneficiaries. One way in which AWS and its partners help is by ensuring that nonprofits are running the most appropriate AWS services for their needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The First Street Foundation (First Street) , a nonprofit research and technology group, is committed to making climate risk information accessible, simple to understand, and actionable for individuals, governments, and industry. Learn more about the model works in this published paper on MDPI Open Access Journals.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Easterseals, DC MD VA is a multifaceted nonprofit organization with the goal of enriching lives and expanding opportunities for children and adults in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area, including people with disabilities and military backgrounds. Learn more about AWS for nonprofits.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Join this session to hear how government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and aerospace and satellite organizations are using the cloud to improve the lives of their citizens, students, patients, and more. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. Louis University.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Join this session to hear how government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and aerospace and satellite organizations are using the cloud to improve the lives of their citizens, students, patients, and more. Make sure you talk to your AWS account representative to see what to join so you don’t miss the fun. See the SeloVerde 2.1

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

To build an AWS-powered solution to evaluate your compliance states, consider the following: Pick the right audit tool The NCUA developed the Automated Cybersecurity Evaluation Toolbox (ACET) based on the FFIEC’s Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) to help credit unions identify risks and evaluate their cybersecurity readiness.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) is a nonprofit association with a vision for improved health and well-being for everyone, everywhere. Solution walkthrough ASPPH staff found the development process simple and intuitive despite their inexperience with the AWS services that comprised the solution architecture.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

million nonprofits in the United States alone, and the largest nonprofits, those operating at the national or international level, are similar in structure to large for-profit companies. Despite their numbers, it’s fairly unusual to see software companies directly target the nonprofit sector in their marketing materials.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

AWS Solution Spark , launched earlier this year, helps public sector partners develop and accelerate open source solutions across state and local government, federal government, healthcare, and education. Nonprofit Partner of the Year: ThinkStack. AWS launches AWS Healthcare Accelerator Global Cohort for Workforce Development.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 26, 2024

Diane’s Note: It’s no secret that our team is a big fan of Bloomerang as we have collaborated for years on free webinars and in the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference community, but they are also a generous supporter of our BIPOC Nonprofit Professional Scholarships for Agile in Nonprofit training.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

My eCISO includes recommendations from popular cyber frameworks such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and more. This is due to the flexibility and power of the natural language capabilities of the AI tool.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 24, 2024

The Climate Risk Research Foundation is a nonprofit that supports data-driven climate research. Their goal is to help decision-makers identify the potential impact and magnitude of climate-related risks and develop possible mitigation strategies. We are not trying to impose our thoughts on Africa or tell them what they should be doing.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Develop a governance strategy A governance strategy enables an organization to manage multiple cloud projects simultaneously in a flexible, coordinated, and interdependent way. The following tips can help your agency develop a governance strategy. Consider the functionality required to manage tasks.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Managing multiple grant applications at once can be challenging for even seasoned nonprofit professionals. In this post, we will explore four software tools your nonprofit can leverage to better manage your ongoing grant applications: Your CRM. Accounting Tools. Grant Management Software. Internal Communication Tools .

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Additional contextual data regarding wildfire fuel from First Street Foundation Wildfire Model First Street Foundation, a nonprofit research and technology group, supplies 30 meter resolution data on wildfire hazards. This is also applicable for use cases that source data from thermal detection and remote sensing.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

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Grant Central USA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the dynamic world of nonprofit organizations, securing the necessary funds to fuel impactful initiatives is an ever-present challenge. Why is grant writing crucial for nonprofit organizations' sustainability and growth? Why is grant writing crucial for nonprofit organizations' sustainability and growth?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Pagination: Develop custom connectors on Amazon Appflow , which provides pagination support. Amazon AppFlow Custom Connector Software Development Kit (SDK) For data sources that are reused across teams and require additional functionality such as write calls, consider building a custom connector using the Amazon Appflow custom connector SDK.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 30, 2023

Work on a Project for a Nonprofit or Academic Institution By far, the most common way that people learn how to write grant proposals is by working for a program at a nonprofit or academic institution that is wholly or partially dependent on grant funding for its operations. At nonprofits, most job descriptions reference grants.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Community Solutions is a US-based nonprofit working to end homelessness through its Built for Zero program, a movement uniting with cities across the US to bridge strategy and support to reduce homelessness. This data helps provide important information for communities and organizations doing the work to support their homeless populations.

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