Foundant Blog
Foundant Technologies' Blog on Philanthropy and Technology
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Read ArticleHow to Drive Donor Engagement: 4 Effective Web Design Tips
Your website serves as the primary representation of your nonprofit. Engage your visitors and turn them into donors with these effective web design tips.
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Read ArticleStrategic, Need-Based Scholarships: What are they and why do they matter?
When most Community Foundations are managing memorial scholarships that are time-intensive and minimally effective, how do you start to provide scholarships that foster positive change?
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Read ArticleUsing Conflict Resolution Strategies to Strengthen Grantseeking
When you encounter workplace conflict, do you react instinctively? Or do you take a minute to think through how to effectively respond? The art is knowing your own preferred approach to conflict.
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Read ArticleWhy Your Net Grant Matters
Grantees incur costs preparing your grant application. It takes time for nonprofits to fit language to your unique questions and format, and customize financial documents to your specifications.
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Read ArticleNonprofit Staffing Strategies: Four Expert Tips for Success
Do you need to revamp your staffing strategy? A strong staff is vital to the success of a nonprofit, so check out these four tips for your staffing success!
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Read ArticleStart with Why: Grant Writers are Great Storytellers
Grantwriting can be time-consuming and draining so how can grantwriters reframe their thinking to stay motivated?
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Read ArticleMore than a final report: New ideas for funder “stewardship”
Stewarding relationships with funders come with barriers that make it difficult to cultivate effective relationships. Follow these guidelines to develop a plan for funder stewardship.
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Read ArticleFundraising Compliance: Are Your Directors on Board?
Your board members should be the champions of your fundraising efforts, and compliance is a key prerequisite. Compliance allows you to plan and budget for necessary expenses.
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Read ArticleThink "Friend-raising" for Authentic Fundraising
If the idea of jumping into fundraising makes you or your board nervous, try reframing the conversation to think about "friend-raising" - making intentional connections with people and organizations.
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Read ArticlePlanning for a Universal Application Move
Any successful move requires three main elements: Take Stock, Make Plans and Communicate, and Get Others Involved.
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Read ArticleNotes from the Field: Three Foundant Clients Share their Experiences in Evaluation and Learning
Foundant CSM, E.C. Byrnes, follows up her article Funders, Take a tip from Michaelangelo, by sharing three client's perspectives on what evaluation and learning mean to their organizations.
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Read ArticleFighting Through a Federal Grant: Meeting and Beating the Challenges (Part 3)
Johna Rodgers talks about some specific complexities with writing a federal grant proposal including tons of tasks, limited time, content, and competitiveness.
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Read ArticleI Survived an OIG Audit Cleanup and Lived to Tell the Tale
A personal account of cleaning up an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Audit and the lessons that were learned from the experience.
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Read ArticleCyber Attacks: Not Just for Facebook
Small organizations are in real danger when it comes to being the target of cyber-attacks. What can you do to prevent it when it feels like hackers are coming out of the woodwork?
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Read ArticleUnderstanding Federal Grants: Finding and Reading Federal Grant Proposals (Part 2)
In this second of our three-article series, we will try to get a better understanding of how a federal grant proposal differs from, say, a grant to the local community foundation.
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Read ArticleEscape the Labyrinth with Mindful Mentoring: Part 3
In the third part of the "Mindful Mentoring" series, we’ll take a look at how to sustain a successful mentoring connection and also determine when, how, and why to dissolve the relationship.
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Read ArticleFundraised by Wolves? Grant Work Better Together
Together, grantmakers and grantseekers can work cooperatively to generate good ideas and change the world. Here are some key issues that both can address in different ways, but to the same end.
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Read ArticleHow Universal Application Helps Create Super Scholarship Programs
Managing high volumes of scholarships can be a major undertaking. Applying for them can be just as stressful. Using a Universal Application for your scholarship funds can help simplify this process.
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Read ArticleYour Community Foundation Year-end Checklist
Year-end is an exciting time for community foundations, with a flurry of donations and grants by donors. Here are a few items to consider as we head into year-end.
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Read ArticleFinding Federal Grants: The Money-Dress-Mall Analogy (Part 1)
A factor that applies to many (perhaps most) state and federal grants includes how and where to look for money. In this first of three articles on federal funding, we will consider the money itself.
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