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Using AI to Improve Your Grant Writing

Grants4Good

I founded a nonprofit in 2014 and quickly became acquainted with the painstaking process of applying for grant funding. Over time, I developed hacks and systems to make myself more efficient, especially by organizing my boilerplate content in ways that allowed me to modularize my grant writing to reuse content blocks.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arts Festival and fundraiser, Uintah Elementary School, Salt Lake City. Although many of the schools do art festivals in the Spring, doing great projects as fundraisers. Most figure that PTAs suffice, but again, PTAs are mostly comprised of parents of schoolchildren, not interested parties without children. It dates to the 1980s.

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4 Tips for Leveraging Data in Your Grant Report

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

You’ve seen our team share information from MyFedTrainer.com, podcasts on the topic from Fundraising HayDay, and our own team talk about and present on “How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap,” so we’re excited to bring you this guest post today with some tactical tips to help with your upcoming grant report.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Over the past twenty years a set of institutionalized funding relationships developed in which nonprofit organizations in the forms of private philanthropic foundations and “friends of” charities formed and now raise increasingly large share of revenues to help pay for public services.