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Need Is Not Enough To Win Grants

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From dubious quizzes about your soul mate in 1980s women’s magazines to Buzzfeed’s endless supply of “decorate your dream house, and we’ll guess your eye color,” I’m always game to give it a go and rarely seem to match up with what should be the correct answer. I’m a sucker for a quiz. It’s all in fun. What’s missing?

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Grant Decision Making. How do you choose which grants to chase?

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Guest post by: Jeff Bauknecht | Grants Manager | The Museum of Flight Who decides which grants to pursue or to let pass by? Who determines which projects will receive grant-funded support? For the last 15 years, I have held the role of grant writer/manager/follower-upper and sometimes magician at my current organization.

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3 Essentials For Nonprofit Sustainability You May Have Missed

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Reporting in Forbes magazine and the Wall Street Journal estimates the value of this historic wealth transfer between $30-68 trillion—that’s “trillion” with a “t.”. That transfer has a solid potential to inject trillions (with a “t”) into the nonprofit sector through wills, bequests, stock transfers, and other giving instruments.

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