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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...

Donor Relations 101 – What I Learned

by Funding For Good | Apr 23, 2019 | Development/Fundraising, Donors

by Funding For Good In 2017, I joined the nonprofit world after 12 years in Corporate America. My initiation to this new culture came as a Development Director for a well-established organization. Now, anyone who has been on a development staff could tell you that...

Top 5 Reasons for Tracking Volunteer Hours

by Funding For Good | Feb 14, 2019 | Development/Fundraising

Time management for nonprofit leaders is already a precarious balancing act, so it’s easy to understand why program managers or even your board might balk at the thought of tracking volunteer hours. Lots of organizations waste time tracking data that will never be...

Volunteer Retention: 3 Strategies

by Guest Author | Jul 10, 2018 | Development/Fundraising

by Eric Burger I ran across this week’s blog a few weeks ago while I was doing research on volunteer retention tracking. I found this article by Eric Burger and asked permission to share with you guys. It is well-written and shares all the things, and more,...