Change Management

Questions to Ask If You Are Thinking About Moving to a New GMS

When your grantmaking organization first started, you didn’t need a lot of functionality to manage your single program and a [...]

November 7, 2024| 4 min Read

Disaster Response

Preparing for the Inevitable: How Grantmakers Can Thrive Amid Climate Events

October 28, 2024| 4 min Read

Grants Strategy

Blackbaud Grantmaking Has SKY APIs, But What Does that Mean for Me?

October 25, 2024| 4 min Read

Grants Strategy

Why Hospitals Should Invest in Climate Actions as a Community Benefit Strategy

October 21, 2024| 7 min Read

Change Management

Technology as Partner (not Product) in Knowledge Work

August 15, 2024| 5 min Read

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    Change Management

    Beyond the RFP: How to Choose Technology Partners for Impact

    Grants managers are adept problem solvers. We conduct equivalency determinations and set up expenditure responsibility reporting. We review wire transfer [...]

    June 4, 2024 | 4 min Read

    Data Health

    From Data Deluge to Impactful Decisions: Mastering Data in Grantmaking

    Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information. Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the [...]

    May 16, 2024 | 4 min Read

    Change Management

    Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

    In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. The goal was to become [...]

    May 15, 2024 | 4 min Read

     

     

     
     

     
     

     
     

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    Internal Controls

    How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle

    There are millions of wonderful nonprofit organizations working to make this world a better place. And as a grantmaker, you’ve [...]

    April 23, 2024 | 4 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    Blackbaud Grantmaking: Examining the Past, the Present, and the Future

    If you are a grantmaker, you know how important it is to have a reliable and efficient software system that [...]

    April 15, 2024 | 5 min Read

    Internal Controls

    Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

    Working in the nonprofit sector is hard. You and your grantees are driven by a passion for your mission that [...]

    April 2, 2024 | 5 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

    As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with [...]

    March 19, 2024 | 4 min Read

    Diversity Equity and Inclusion

    Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

    The very nature of philanthropy is based on empathy, compassion, and a strong conviction to improve overall human welfare and [...]

    March 18, 2024 | 3 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

    As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. You [...]

    February 8, 2024 | 5 min Read

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    Learning and Unlearning to Be Next Level

    PEAK Grantmaking President and CEO Satonya Fair is back on the Blackbaud Grantmaking™ Thought Leadership Webinar Series to share how [...]

    February 5, 2024 |25 min Listen

    Change Management

    4 Ways to Help Your Grantmaking Organization Adopt an Emergent Learning Mindset

    Curiosity, transparency, diversity, vulnerability, and collaboration. At PEAK Grantmaking, these qualities and practices of emergent learning are an everyday endeavor [...]

    January 29, 2024 | 3 min Read

    Data Insights

    10 Tips for Mastering Your Grantmaking Dashboards

    The dashboard on your car gives you real-time information that helps you make better decisions about your driving. Are you [...]

    January 24, 2024 | 4 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

    Back in the mid-2010s, I served as chair of the selection committee for the Washington, DC region’s biggest award recognizing [...]

    January 22, 2024 | 5 min Read

    Employee Wellness

    How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back

    The following is an excerpt from How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back A Practical Guide for Taking [...]

    January 18, 2024 | 7 min Read
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