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What to do After a Grant is Rejected
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Art of Grant Budgeting - A Guide
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Wrong About My Approach to Fundraising
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How to Hire A Great Accountant
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14 Attributes of a Thriving Non Profit
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by Mary Diegert
Grants are a crucial source of funding to nonprofits — is your organization’s CFO ready to put together a grant proposal budget that will put your best foot forward and make an impact with potential funders?
The nonprofit CFO is an MVP throughout the entire grant funding cycle. However, they tend to shine the brightest when their expertise concerning the organization’s financials come into play during the grant proposal budget preparation phase.
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During budget preparation, there are two questions the CFO must keep in mind. Let’s tackle one at a time. To see the two questions......... Click Here.
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The first decade of my fundraising career, I made many mistakes. Of course, mistakes aren’t necessarily bad if you take the opportunity to learn from them.
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Fortunately, I’m older and wiser now, and I hope you can learn from my own missteps. After 25 years of fundraising, I’ve learned a lot and am happy to pass along these tidbits to you.
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To review the five examples of times I’ve been wrong about fundraising.......Click Here.
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Anyone who has sought a grant has probably heard “no” as often—or more often—than they’ve heard “yes.” Grant writing is challenging. Even if you write a perfect grant proposal, it still might not get funded—simply because there is so much competition. There are lots of reasons your proposal might get turned down.
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But a grant proposal rejection letter presents opportunity, too. It’s a chance to develop a relationship with grantmakers, find other prospective funders, and refine your proposal writing skills. To read more on this subject.........Click Here.
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For many executive directors, hiring an accountant is fraught with anxiety. How will we find the right person? How can I tell if someone really knows accounting? Will an accountant fit in with the rest of us? As difficult as it is to hire a good accountant, hiring an incompetent or incompatible person is even worse. Here are some FAQs on hiring accountants for nonprofits, including what to do if you’re having an impossible time of it:
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Where do we recruit applicants?
You may spend more time recruiting good applicants for your finance team than you may spend for program staff; after all, accounting skills are often more marketable across sectors than program skills. Competition for strong candidates can be challenging. To access the rest of this article...........Click Here.
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by Joan Garry
Wanna go deeper into these 14 attributes? Download my free guide here.
Non-profits are messy. It’s true even for the best non-profit organizations out there.
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Not enough money… Too many cooks… An abundance of passion…
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Often on this blog I write about what non-profits are doing wrong and how to fix it. After all, “non-profits are messy” is more than just my tagline — it’s my mantra. And my mission is to help non-profits clean up the mess.
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But today, I want to focus on what the best non-profit organizations are doing right. My hope is this will inspire you and set an aspirational vision. Maybe your non-profit does a bunch of these really well (I hope so!), but we all have something to work on. To read more on this topic.........Click Here.
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