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3 reasons grantmakers are investing in capacity building
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
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The importance of using inclusive grant language
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
- Diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB)
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Improving data-driven storytelling for grantmakers: 3 steps
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
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Improving grantmaking with Bonterra’s Jumpstart program
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
![A diverse group of workers sit around the table and shake hands. Learn about how to surpass the grantmaking racial funding gap in this guide.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_short/public/2023-05/istock-1146468350.jpg?h=b55c2eca&itok=jS7LePz2)
The racial funding gap in philanthropy and grantmaking
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
- Diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB)
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How to create and maintain an equitable grantmaking process
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
- Diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB)
- Social justice
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Delivering product capabilities for the greatest good
- Capacity building
- Coordinating social services
- Corporate social responsibility
- Digital communications & marketing
- Employee giving
- Employee volunteering
- Fundraising ideas
- Giving day
- Grant management & grant making
- Medical affairs
- Peer-to-peer fundraising
- Corporations
- Philanthropists
- Educational institutions
- Energy
- Financial institutions
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Insurance
- Life sciences
- Retail
- Nonprofits
- Public agencies
- Case Management
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3 benefits and a drawback of using donor advised funds
- Fundraising ideas
- Grant management & grant making
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Grants Management
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Why collective impact is the future of systemic change
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Grants Management
- Healthcare
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How Black history has influenced the world of fundraising
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
- Diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB)
- Social justice
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ACCP 2023 reflections: Key insights for your 2024 CSR strategy
- Corporate social responsibility
- Employee giving
- Employee volunteering
- Grant management & grant making
- Corporations
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Disaster relief
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4 key findings for nonprofits from the 2023 Giving USA report
- Fundraising ideas
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Donor Engagement
Resources
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Guide
Buyer’s guide: selecting the right CSR software
- Corporate social responsibility
- Employee giving
- Employee volunteering
- Grant management & grant making
- Corporations
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Corporate Social Responsibility
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Guide
Solution brief: Bonterra Grants Management
- Corporate social responsibility
- Grant management & grant making
- Corporations
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Corporate Social Responsibility
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Guide
The social impact transformation
- Corporate social responsibility
- Employee giving
- Employee volunteering
- Grant management & grant making
- Corporations
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Corporate Social Responsibility
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Research report
The new funding landscape: Top funder decision factors in 2022
- Capacity building
- Fundraising ideas
- Grant management & grant making
- Corporations
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Public agencies
- Case Management
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Guide
5 reasons you should invest in fundraising capacity building.
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
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Template
Software and new platform RFP template
- Digital communications & marketing
- Fundraising ideas
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Donor Engagement
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Guide
Grants management
- Corporate social responsibility
- Grant management & grant making
- Corporations
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
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Guide
Grantmaking transformed
- Corporate social responsibility
- Grant management & grant making
- Corporations
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
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Guide
Grantmaking simplified
- Corporate social responsibility
- Grant management & grant making
- Corporations
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Corporate Social Responsibility
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Guide
A grantmaker’s playbook for leading your community through economic uncertainty
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
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Guide
A grantmaker's guide to equitable giving
- Capacity building
- Giving day
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Donor Engagement
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Guide
The grantmaker’s guide to collective impact
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
- Human services
Case Studies
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How investing in capacity building empowers BIPOC organizations.
- Capacity building
- Fundraising ideas
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Grants Management
- Diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB)
![A shot of volunteers cleaning and washing up in the kitchen at a warm hub/food bank which is a safe place for people to enjoy a warm and friendly environment in the community with the current cost of living increasing. They have made hot dinners for the visitors, one young woman is smiling and looking at the camera.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image_short/public/2023-06/istock-1448774523_0.jpg?h=e8fe6879&itok=u2B0BWCY)
No Boundaries Coalition
- Capacity building
- Fundraising ideas
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Grants Management
- Human services
- Social justice
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Central Carolina Community Foundation
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Donor Engagement
- Diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB)
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Jesse Parker Williams Foundation
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Grants Management
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The Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc.
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
- Workplace development
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Community Foundation of the North State
- Capacity building
- Digital communications & marketing
- Fundraising ideas
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
- Human services
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Cayuga Health
- Giving day
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Giving Days
- Healthcare
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Northern Kentucky Funders’ Group
- Capacity building
- Grant management & grant making
- Philanthropists
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Grants Management
- Human services
- Workplace development
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United Way of Rhode Island
- Digital communications & marketing
- Fundraising ideas
- Peer-to-peer fundraising
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Nonprofits
- Donor Engagement
- Social justice
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Austin Community Foundation
- Fundraising ideas
- Giving day
- Foundations & grantmakers
- Donor Engagement
- Human services