Grants and Foundations Review
Editor: Michael Wells

Tips for Grantwriting for National Organizations by Susan Schaefer

The fundamental challenge of writing grants for national nonprofits is taking an organization’s vast set of issues, programs and stakeholders and making them seem familiar to a funder who may be thousands of miles away. How do you take a national story and give it a local resonance?

Writing for Substance Abuse Treatment Programs by Bruce Ripley

Are you a freelance grant consultant? Or a grant writer who changes jobs periodically? Then you could be writing grant proposals on behalf of substance abuse treatment programs at some point in your career....

Nonprofit Boards and Governance Review
Editor: Jane Garthson

Legal Pitfalls For Nonprofits: Ten Things You Can Do To Protect Your Organization by Johanna Garton

With so many tax and procedural forms to fill out every year, nonprofits can go a little batty trying to keep on top of it all.  While many of the following items are not required by law for nonprofits, they are all important steps toward good governance and could provide protection in the future. 

Volunteer Management Review
Editor: Celeste Sauls Marks

The Individual Volunteer Plan: Developing Top Volunteer Talent by Jill Friedman Fixler and Jennifer Rackow

Volunteer recognition and retention are inextricably intertwined if you approach both strategically. Traditional recognition events (banquets) and rewards (pins, certificates) are not likely to retain the best and brightest talent -- people who could add tremendous value as volunteers anywhere. It is not enough to update your events or rewards, though there is often value in doing so. You must actively cultivate top performers.

We Review
Editor: Stephen Nill

Editor's Note: We haven't yet moved all the reviews over from the old site. Thank you for your patience.

Branding for Nonprofits: Developing Identity with Integrity reviewed by Ami Neiberger-Miller, APR

Branding may be a buzzword flung about in nonprofit board rooms, but many fail to realize that it goes far deeper than a snazzy logo or lockstep devotion to a style guide. Rather, a brand is a living and breathing expression of an organization’s mission, identity, and heart.If this all sounds like mumbo-jumbo to you, don’t worry, because in Branding for Nonprofits: Developing Identity with Integrity (2006, New York: Allworth Press), DK Holland provides a practical how-to guide with real world nonprofit and corporate examples for busy nonprofit professionals....

Don Griesmann's Grant Opportunities
Editor: Don Griesmann

Turn Up Your Speakers!

You can listen to a recorded interview with Don, as a demo of the re-launched We Interview series of recorded interviews.

We've added several major additions to help you search for meaningful grants. But first here is what is now up and available for you:

There are over 140 new grant announcements for the arts, technology, media, victims of crime and policing, women, youth, housing, health, HIV/AIDS, food, environment, athletics, economic and community development, entrepreneurship, families, science, and international NGOs to mention some of them.

The additions:

1. The brief paragraph describing the grant opportunity will also have the closing date if there is one at the bottom left. Some opportunities may have multiple deadlines and I have featured the earliest one. All the deadlines are in the full article.

2. There is a new search button to use only with DGGO. You can search by deadlines or by the date I published an opportunity. Better than that though, is that you can search by topics or by a foundation name.

Thank you for what you are doing to make our world a better place for all. I hope this offering helps you in that quest. Now…go to DGGO and see if there is help for you.