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Giving USA 2024
Each year, the Giving USA Foundation and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis releases the annual Giving USA Report…
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Being Vulnerable at Work
We often spend more time at work than anywhere else. But that doesn’t mean we are closest to our bosses and colleagues. So how does that work when you have…
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Travel Tips When Using Grant Funds
Grant funding can be used for travel, if the funder allows it. Your needs for travel expenses will vary from airline and hotel costs to reach a conference…
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Business Building
Have you started your own business? Are you thinking about it? Whether you plan to be a grant consultant, start a fundraising empire, or want to freelance here…
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Grant Management 101
Grant management is a vital part of the grant life cycle. If you cannot keep the funding awarded to your agency, you are lessening the chance of future…
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HowTo: LOI
From small family foundations to large corporation foundations, many funders ask potential grantees to submit an LOI. Do they mean a Letter of Intent or Letter…
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More Than Grant Writers
Sure, your title may have “writer” in it, but we are more than grant writers. Grant professionals build capacity, develop programs, conduct research, work with…
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Critical Thinking Skills for Finding the Right Grant Fit
Grant funding is out there. In 2022, foundations gave $105.2 BILLION and corporations $29.5 BILLION. In Fiscal Year 2023, the federal government awarded $1.7…
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Professional Development Builds Leadership, Philanthropy, and More
During the 2023 #GrantSummit hosted by the Grant Professionals Association, our cohosts interviewed a variety of leaders in the grant field. They shared their…
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Successful Grant Management for the Win!
So many people are focused on getting the grant. But then it’s awarded. Now what? Grant management is a key component to keeping your grant awards AND getting…
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Breaking Down Silos Between Grants and Development
Grant writing, just like fundraising, is very relational. The truth is that people give to people. This is why we are talking to Kara D. Mostowy, CFRE, GPC…
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Grant Writing Pro Tips
With a combined 50+ years of grant writing experience, our cohosts know their way around a grant proposal. Today they are sharing writing tips based on lessons…
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Productivity Tips From Your Nerdy Best Friend
Tech tools abound to make the lives and work of grant professionals easier. But some of the tools, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), can be scary and…
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AI and Its Place in the Grant World
The use of artificial Intelligence tools for writing is a hot topic of discussion in the grant and fundraising community these days. Questions abound about the…
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Top Ten Favorite Moments of Fundraising HayDay!
This year’s Top Ten list is a retrospective of our past 5 years of the podcast. We are taking a walk down memory, reminiscing about favorite moments…
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Celebrating 5 Years of Fundraising HayDay!
Season 1 of Fundraising HayDay was launched in November 2018. This month (November 2023) marks our 5-year anniversary. We are celebrating with memories and…
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Reasons Your Application Gets Denied
In grant trainings, we often talk about the many mistakes grant professionals make that cause grant applications to be denied – from missing deadlines to…
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How to Have Uncomfortable Conversations About Race, Bias, and More
It can be uncomfortable to talk about race. But you need to push past your own comfort level and bias and be part of the conversation. As grant and fundraising…
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Websites: Every Funder Needs One
One of the most frustrating aspects of grant prospect research is the lack of transparency and information provided by private funders. Sure, foundations and…
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DEI, Black Philanthropy, and Building Bridges
Building community, understanding culture, and recognizing prejudices is such a vital part of being a better human. This is an ongoing conversation, and today…
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Know Your Worth
Whether you work as a grant professional employed by an organization or as a grant consultant, it is important to understand the skills, knowledge, and…
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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)
In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Job Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). It…
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City on a Hill Milwaukee: On a Mission to Break the Cycle of Generational Poverty
Human service organizations the world over work tirelessly to feed, clothe, house, and care for our communities. In Milwaukee, one nonprofit is bring the full…
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How to Read a Federal RFP
Federal funders always produce a set of guidelines with each grant application. They are known by a variety of names, depending on the funding agency, from…
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From Grant Funder to Grant Consultant
Today we are interviewing Shavonn Richardson, CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting. She has done all the things in the grant world: started her own nonprofit…
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Grant Work: Hiring an Employee vs. a Consultant
Your organization is ready to tackle the realm of grants, but you need the assistance of a grant professional. Should you hire an employee or consultant? Hear…
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A Direct Approach to In-Direct Costs
Most federal grant programs will allow in-direct cost rates. But what is it? How does your organization get one? What does it fund? The process is complicated…
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How To: Video Marketing for Social Good
Today we are joined by Erin Goodier, of Goodier Creative, who works with nonprofits on a mission to change the world for the better. She spends her time using…
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What I Wish My Boss Knew About Grants
What do you do when the person you report to has no idea how the grant world works? It happens more than you think, and it can be frustrating for both parties!…
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Introverts & Extroverts & Learning From Each Other
Are you an introvert or an extrovert? What about your colleagues? How you operate in the world, interact with your co-workers, find your strength, and recharge…
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Leadership Isn’t Perfection
Nonprofit leadership is not for the faint of heart. Our work is messy, imperfect, inspiring, engaging, and everything in between. So how do we lead well, while…
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Ripped from the Headlines: CARES Act Funding, the IRS, and Other Grant Management Woes
It's our annual ripped from the headline's episode. We are sharing recent news articles that detail the improper care of grant funding by government agencies…
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Show Me the Data
How do you tell your community's story, showing the need to funders and donors alike? You show them the data, of course! But how do you find the most current…
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What Can Elected Officials Do For You?
Whether you work for a local government, nonprofit, university, or another organization seeking grant funds, do not overlook the assistance elected officials…
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How to Create a Healthy Nonprofit Culture
What nonprofit doesn't want to expand their fundraising opportunities? But to be successful, it must first create a healthy culture for its employees, donors…
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How To: Evaluation
Most funders want to know two things: did the organization do what they promised in the grant application and did they meet their listed goals and objectives…
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Partnering on Large Scale Proposals
What do you do if the perfect grant application comes along, but you don't have the bandwidth to tackle it all on your own? Consider finding a partner or some…
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Stop Chasing the Money
While there are hundreds of thousands of grant opportunities in the United States, not every funder or application fits the mission and need of your…
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The Top Ten Productivity Tools Used by Our #GrantProBookClub
We switched up this year's top ten favorite things list by asking each member of the Grant Pro Book Club (of which we're members) for their favorite…
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Strategic Grants & Fundraising for the Win: Play the Long Game
Working in the nonprofit sector means we focus on wealth and charitable donations, while juggling sustainability, investments, and the future. Today we are…
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Get More Productive By Doing Less
Productivity tools are always helpful, but sometimes it feels like the product is running you instead of you running the product. Today we are talking about…
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Entrepreneurship and You
You have a brilliant idea, but how do you bring it to market? Today we are talking to Gauri Manglik, CEO & Co-Founder of Instrumentl, a tool for nonprofits to…
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Grant Makers Gone Right
We spend many episodes dreaming of the way we WISH funders would operate - and today we are flipping the script. Learn about funders who are doing things…
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Readers Make Better Writers
Your Fundraising HayDay cohosts are big believers that reading is a vital component to quality writing skills. We share what reading does for your vocabulary…
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Working with Your Board of Directors
If you work in the nonprofit profession, you will interact with your organization's board of directors. They are instrumental in your fundraising efforts, but…
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Storytelling: The Power of One
Whether you develop grant proposals or work with donors, we are all storytellers. And it's vital that we share the same messages about our organization, the…
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Career Paths for Grant and Fundraising Professionals
Dana Schuler Drummond has a long and storied career in the field of grants and fundraising. She writes grant proposals; she teaches nonprofit courses at a…
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How NOT to Lead a Grant Workshop
Dear funders, we appreciate when you offer a grant workshop. It is ALWAYS helpful to learn more about an upcoming application process and have the opportunity…
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Capital Campaign Tips
These days, grant professionals and fundraisers are often asked to tag team on capital campaigns. When raising a significant amount of money in a set time…
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Other Duties as Assigned: Writing Grants When It’s Not in Your Title
You have probably been there before. You already have a full-time job as a teacher, firefighter, major gifts manager, city clerk, accountant, volunteer…
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Building More Inclusive Relationships with Stakeholders
As grant and fundraising professionals, we work with colleagues, boards, partners, other nonprofit agencies, funders, donors, and many other stakeholders. Our…
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How To: Sustainability
It's the dreaded question most funders ask: how are you going to sustain this program when the grant is over? If we are being brutally honest, the answer is…
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Good Enough Now
The work is piling up - grant deadlines, conference presentations, a new capital campaign, the next fundraising gala, and other duties as assigned. You feel…
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Writing Tight for Character Counts
You know the drill. A funder asks a series of questions, then gives you anywhere from 100 to 1,000 CHARACTERS to answer each question. When you have a million…
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Fundraising Across the Pond
Sure, we all speak English, but are we talking about the same thing? Fundraising is not an exclusively American thing, so we are talking to our friend across…
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Grants Gone Wrong
It's the Fundraising HayDay annual episode that is ripped from the headlines. We are talking grant fraud stories and the consequences that happen when the…
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How To: Goals and Objectives
Most every grant proposal requires the creation of goal(s) and objective(s) to demonstrate the change your program will bring about during the grant period. If…
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Expert Opinion: K-12 Education
It's not unusual to specialize in a specific field of the grant profession. So how do you determine which one fits your career? The best way is to learn as…
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Grant Productivity: Managing Your Workload
Whether you are a one-woman grant office, a consultant with a slew of sub-contractors, or a giant grant team, there are always a million tasks that must be…
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The Why in Grants is Silent - Part 2
Last episode we spoke about the whys in grant - as in why do grant applications have such limited character counts to complicated questions and why are grant…