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3 Essentials For Nonprofit Sustainability You May Have Missed

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

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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Trust-Based Philanthropy: Both Sides Need to Do Their Part

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Can you imagine communities without food banks, battered women shelters, free primary care clinics, after-school care, animal shelters, substance abuse resources, housing assistance, and the extensive list of services made available because a nonprofit exists? An accounting of every penny is necessary. Site visits happen.

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Where in the Organization Chart Does Your Grant Professional Belong?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

We are fundraisers, so nonprofits often place us in the development department. We collaborate with program directors, accountants, and organizational leadership. Check out our latest Fundraising HayDay Podcast, where my cohost Kimberly and I share tips and ideas in What I Wish My Boss Knew About Grants – HayDay Services.

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Add Productivity by Subtracting Distractions

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

After years of pandemics, civil unrest, natural disasters, and economic uncertainty, what red-blooded grant writer or fundraiser wouldn’t want to curl up on a comfy couch and scroll away for a few minutes to escape the stress and practice some self-care? You deserve it. I couldn’t resist). It ended at 3 a.m. Y’all be careful out there!

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How one nonprofit commemorates enduring sibling relationships with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Any surviving sibling can go to SibsForever.org to create a no-cost account and build commemorative web pages for their sibling and sibling relationship, including photo and video galleries featuring themselves and their siblings. Unifying data to boost nonprofit fundraising outcomes.

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Stop Soldier Suicide partners with Pariveda, AWS on mission to reduce suicide rates among US service members and veterans

AWS Public Sector Blog

Our data lake house is organized into three distinct zones—landing (raw), cleansed (analytics-ready), and curated (purpose-ready). For the other use case, we use Fivetran to ingest data from external sources (clinical, marketing, and fundraising data). Additional data source integrations are implemented using a custom Lambda connector.

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Announcing new AWS data connector for popular nonprofit CRM: Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT

AWS Public Sector Blog

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.