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Funders Are People, Too: Build a Funder Relationship Before You Submit
How and why to build a funder relationship to increase your proposal strength and gain a supporter. Grant writing can sometimes feel like a numbers game: draft the narrative, gather the data, hit submit, and hope someone on the other end reads it closely. It’s an easy pattern to fall into, especially when you’re busy … Read More
5 Opportunities to Strengthen Your Program Evaluation
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Coaching Might Be the Conversation You Didn’t Know You Needed
Diving deep into Partner for Better’s unique approach to coaching. We’ll explore exactly what coaching means and how that may work for you.
Let Data Power your Strategy
Don’t turn the page on last year’s data Back in the olden days, we read actual books in elementary school—paper pages, big headphones, and a cassette or CD that played along while you followed the text. My favorite part was always the voice that said, “BEEP… turn the page.” I still say it. Yes, it … Read More
Permission for Nonprofit Fun
Your December Nonprofit Permission Slip for FUN December in nonprofit land is… a lot. With nearly 30% of all donations happening this month, fundraising goes into turbo mode while program teams juggle reports, client surveys, and a steady stream of “can-you-do-this-before-year-end?” requests. It’s chaos wrapped in holiday lights. Here’s hoping you can still grab a … Read More
Finding New Funders for 2026: Grant Research That Works
New Year. New Funders. New You. If you’re heading into 2026 thinking, “We need new funders,” you’re not alone. Plenty of misconceptions float around the nonprofit world, like: The reality? Only about 1 in 10 grants is funded. Grant writing is time-intensive, competitive, and rarely quick. Many proposals take months to review — and some … Read More
Best Way to Increase Nonprofit Employee Engagement
Gratitude Isn’t Squishy, Touchy-Feely Stuff In the nonprofit world, gratitude and increasing nonprofit employee engagement sometimes gets treated like the “soft stuff,” nice when there’s time, but let’s be honest, there’s never time. We’re too busy juggling grants, events, and about 47 urgent emails. Here’s the truth: Gratitude is the SECRET SAUCE that holds teams … Read More
Take the Vacation Time
Why Nonprofit Folks Need Time Off (and How It Actually Helps Your Mission) Let’s talk about something we’re notoriously bad at in the nonprofit world—taking a vacation. You know who you are. You’ve got 120 hours of PTO banked, and every time someone mentions “self-care,” you roll your eyes because you’re too busy keeping your … Read More
Year-end Grant Writing Ingredients
Grant Soup – Get your year-end ingredients together Cooler days are here, and all I can think about is soup. And year-end grant writing. But mostly soup. It is my very favorite meal to cook and eat and we have it frequently in my household in cooler weather. Soup is endlessly versatile: you can make … Read More