…With Great Application Instructions Once you decide to apply for a federal grant, you should immediately develop a set of Application Instructions. While every solid grant effort begins with a great kick-off meeting, every successful kick-off meeting begins with a comprehensive set of Application Instructions. What are Application Instructions? When you go on a trip …
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How To Check the Status of Your Employee Retention Credit
After filing your employee retention credit, you’ll want that money to arrive as fast as possible. While you wait, you’ll undoubtedly be left wondering when that refund check will come. This article explains how to check the status of your employee retention credit and offers tips to avoid any delays along the way. Use Bottomline …
Give, Get, or…. A reader asked if we “have any examples of good “get or give” policies for a nonprofit board.” I like wording similar to: “It is the policy and practice of the Board of Trustees of (name of the NPO) that each Board Member shall make an annual (cash) contribution to this organization …
If you think that people online give to your organization only through your web donation form, you’re missing significant slices of the online giving pie. See the chart below to see how big those missing slices can be. I recently studied 701 gifts that a nonprofit client received in 2010. All were made by visitors …
A reader indicated that she was, “trying to find accounting literature that defines whether we can capitalize the cost of a capital campaign consultant and the project management time provided by development staff who worked on the campaign,” and she asked, are “these costs usually capitalized with the new building or building expansion as project …
This is the first in (what’s likely to be) a long series of postings about the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). Workplace giving, with the CFC, is the only type of non-profit fundraising that is subsidized, low-risk and high leverage. If you’re not familiar with the CFC, let me share a few facts and debunk a …
That question was asked on one of the listserves where I am (usually) just a lurker, but was one I felt moved to answer. What I said was that…. I’ve been a fundraising consultant for well over 30 years, and I obtained my CFRE when the program was relatively new – back in the early …
Although Merriam-Webster defines grantsmanship simply as “the art of obtaining grants,” the reality is so much more than that. A broader, more realistic (somewhat dramatic) definition of that term would be, “The cradle to grave process for ‘birthing,’ ‘raising’ and managing grants.” Regularly, on this blog, I will share my experiences, real world examples, and …
