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Helping Arapahoe County operate more efficiently with Google Cloud

Google Public Sector

Arapahoe, Colorado's first county, has been focused on cultivating growth opportunities for its residents for more than 150 years 1. To serve its growing population and economy at scale, Arapahoe County needed a better way to manage its rising data center maintenance costs while balancing flat year-over-year budgets.

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What Should You Be Doing: Fundraising or Pursuing Grant Money?

Peak Proposals

However, fundraising typically refers to generating cash donations by either cultivating individual donors; by holding fundraising events such as auctions or athletic events such a 5K race; or through an ongoing, general appeal for donations through a website or mail-based campaign.

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Spring Into Online Training in March

GovLoop

This March, we’re offering six free online training sessions, where you can dive further into topics like artificial intelligence, human-centered design, and cultivating curiousity on your team. So how can we cultivate and embrace curiosity at work? Join GovLoop and NextGen online Tuesday, March 26 from 2-2:50 p.m.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions. Understanding Proposal Budgets When you search for potential funders, it is beneficial to have a sense of how much your project will cost.

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Does Revenue Diversification Actually Work for Nonprofits?

Peak Proposals

The downside of these partnerships (mostly on the nonprofit side) is that they can be time consuming and costly to cultivate. If you have a number of active grants, you might be able to cover your unrestricted costs if each of your awarded grants allows for at least a percentage of the budget to go toward overhead costs.

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How to solve problems in your nonprofit

Grant Writing Made Easy

The real problem in most of these cases is that running 3 or 4 programs on a yearly budget of less than $50k is trying to do too much with too little. They could: Ask for summer donations from their existing donor base Cultivate new donors Search for 5 grant opportunities.

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GRANTEGY: Don’t Leave Your Grants to Chance Series

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

When choosing a tool, consider your organization’s needs, such as size, budget, and technical capacity. It allows you to be proactive rather than reactive, builds institutional memory, and helps you cultivate long-term relationships with funders.