You love your community, but you know there are things that could be better and you want to have a positive impact. You look around and...

It’s a simple question for grant seekers in the US: What is your organization’s tax status? I saw this on an application recently and...

Video: https://youtu.be/KvuH-FwkkyM Four Horsemen of the Nonprofit board Apocalypse: Failure to understand and/or adopt nonprofit best...

It's that time of year again! Well, not for all nonprofits. Or the federal government. But for a lot of organizations we are reaching the...

(I may not be Shakespeare, but I do have some great lines every now and then.) It seems like we are getting tons of requests along the...

Fatigue seems to be the word of the week (every week) since the pandemic hit the United States. Our nonprofits are fatigued from the...

Right now it seems like every time I come up for air more weeks have passed, and here we are at the end of April. How?! Time has gotten...

When a nonprofit's work is to serve those in need, how do we ensure that people are learning about vital services offered when everyone...

It is hard to keep track of the days right now (and it is only going to get harder before it gets better). In between the numerous calls...

In this day and age your digital presence is vital for fundraising success. As millennials are reaching their 30s (and even 40s) they are...

We were crunching our last year's numbers, and I realized that we had a success rate of 58%. Most grant writers average around 10% - 30%,...

We all know about how funders want to make sure that the check they write you isn't the last check you ever receive. We've also seen the...

My beloved grandmother Leota Schuler never went to college, was never wealthy and was certainly never famous (you've never heard of her,...

I get a lot of phone calls (in case you couldn't tell) from people who want to know how to get money for their organization from funders...

It seems like every week I say, "This is the most asked question I receive." This week is no exception because I am constantly asked,...

*Phone rings* "This is Dana." "Hi, Dana. It's X. We have a new development director. Again." Over my 30 year career, I have received this...

Send a few emails, make a couple calls and maybe attend a funder's event or conference then you're golden right? Stewardship made easy!...

Board of Directors have a legal responsibility to the nonprofit of the board on which they serve, as we discussed earlier, and they also...

For the last two weeks of "The Board Series", we will explore the roles the Board plays. This week? The legal role. Nonprofit boards can...

Before you can effectively implement a grant-seeking strategy, your board must follow particular guidelines and have the proper guiding...