What Grantmaking topics are you watching?

Carrie Watkins
Carrie Watkins Blackbaud Employee
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Hi Blackbaud Grantmaking Community! I’m the Content Marketing Manager for Grantmaking, and we’re getting started on our content planning for 2024. We want to dig into the topics you find most interesting for the blog posts, white papers, and guides we produce next year.

Here are some themes we’ve been watching. Which ones are top of mind for you? Anything we missed?

  • Adjusting your grantmaking when general charitable donations are down
  • Application best practices and lowering the burden for applicants while also getting the information you need to make informed decisions
  • Advancements in technology, such as AI and integrations, and how they might affect your grantmaking
  • Best practices for incorporating trust-based philanthropy principles/multi-year unrestricted gifts
  • Making data-driven decisions/data health
  • Providing more transparency into your grantmaking to your stakeholders and grantees
  • Incorporating more community participation and voice into your grantmaking decisions
  • Staffing and employee wellness
  • Evaluating applications and performing due diligence
  • Using your grantmaking tools more effectively: GMS, CRM, fund accounting
  • Best practices for being an intermediary for government and other large grants
  • Data security and fraud protection

(I'll have a question for you next week about topics related to issues affecting your grantees.)

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  • Angela Finley Hunter
    Angela Finley Hunter Community All-Star
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    @Carrie Watkins
    Those are great Carrie and thank you! Regarding using grantmaking more effectively, I would like to see how to run a report and drop it into excel without lots of clean up.

  • Maryann Jusino
    Maryann Jusino
    Sixth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Facilitator 1

    @Carrie Watkins
    These are all great and definitely and will be looking out for anything on these specific topics as out team here are specifically working with challenges that would apply to these.

    • Making data-driven decisions/data health
    • Providing more transparency into your grantmaking to your stakeholders and grantees
    • Staffing and employee wellness

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