organization Archives - Funding for Good

Facilitating CONSENSUS BUILDING Conversations

by Funding For Good | Apr 8, 2020 | Strategic Planning

“Consensus Building Conversations” The concept seems so simple, doesn’t it? Get a group together. Present the issue. Have some consensus building conversations…and POOF…Agree! So why is the process never that simple? In order to...

Pre-Program Design Sets Grant Writers Up for Success

by Funding For Good | Mar 25, 2020 | Development/Fundraising, Grant Research, Grant Writing

Do you want to know the easiest way to set your development director or grant writer up for success? Use Pre-Program Design to create a stellar program. Pre-Program design, that’s right. Your grant writer can do everything else right. They can develop good...

What are Matching Grants | How to Create the Match

by Funding For Good | Jan 28, 2020 | Development/Fundraising, Grant Research, Grant Writing

Throughout the years I have had the opportunity to work on numerous grants that listed matching grants as a requirement in the guidelines. Matching grants are conditional awards that require an organization to raise a specified portion of the grant through...

Grants Management: Often a Trial-By-Fire Experience

by Funding For Good | Oct 16, 2019 | Development/Fundraising, Grant Writing

Several years ago, I started a job as a grant writer on a development team for a large nonprofit in North Carolina. Grants management was new to me even though I had worked in and around nonprofits for years. While I’d responded to RFP’s and RFI’s (requests for...

Strategic Planning Process and the Product

by Funding For Good | Jul 8, 2019 | Strategic Planning

Whether you serve a nonprofit as a development director, executive director, board member, or staff… “strategic planning” has probably come up in your conversations. If you ask ten individuals this simple the question “What does strategic planning mean to you?” you...