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Equitable Grantmaking in Action: A Conversation with Candid and Siegel Family Endowment

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GivingData Announces Open API Framework and Integrated Payment Processing at PEAK2024

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 19, 2024 (Newswire.com) - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software to family and private foundations, ...

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Woods Fund Chicago: Grantmaker Story [Video]

As the Director of Grants Management at Woods Fund Chicago, Deborah Clark and her team have benefited from the ease of use of GivingData, for both ...

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5 Foundation Roles Your Grants Management System Should Support

It's been nearly four decades since the first generation of grants management software hit the market. In 1985, early adopters installed MicroEdge ...

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Introducing GDCentral, GivingData's New Community Platform

At GivingData, we understand the importance of providing not just a grants management software, but an engaging learning environment where our ...

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GivingData Announces CEO Transition

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software to private foundations, today announced ...

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Wagner Foundation: Grantmaker Story [Video]

As the Grants and Impact Manager at Wagner Foundation, David Demosthenes and his team have benefited from GivingData by moving away from spreadsheets ...

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Collaborative Grantmaking: 3 Foundations' Journey to Greater Efficiency

In August 2023, three independent family foundations moved into a shared office space to increase collaboration, share knowledge, and reduce costs. ...

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How Siegel Family Endowment Leverages Demographic Data

For many grantmakers, 2023 was a year to build more diverse and equitable portfolios. It’s a heavy lift even for foundations that already have a ...

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GDCentral: Introducing GivingData's New Community and Resource Hub

This webinar introduces GivingData's latest online community and resource hub, GDCentral. We provide an in-depth look at GDCentral, explain how the ...

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Summit Charitable Foundation: Grantmaker Story [Video]

Jen Ruffner is the Director of Grant Management at the Summit Charitable Foundation. Since the implementation of GivingData, Jen and the Foundation ...

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3 Grantmaking Trends to Watch in 2024

The author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston once wrote: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” For grantmakers processing ...

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The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation: Grantmaker Story [Video]

Katherine McGonagle is the Grants Associate at The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. As a recently-implemented user of GivingData, Katherine ...

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Guide to Transitioning Grants Management Systems

A transition to a new grants management system can feel overwhelming. But if your foundation goes into the transition with a clear plan, you’ll be ...

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GivingData Launches Philanthropy Tech Partner Program

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software to family and independent foundations, ...

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5 Considerations for a foundationConnect Transition

Salesforce plans to sunset its foundationConnect platform by January 2026, leaving many grantmakers to search for a new grants management system.

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#GivingTuesday: What Does Giving Back Mean to You?

To mark this year’s GivingTuesday, we surveyed our growing team of 45 people to learn what giving back means to them, how they've engaged in causes ...

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Equitable Grantmaking: Candid & Siegel Family Endowment

GivingData’s Chief Innovation Officer, Roberto Cremonini, hosted this webinar with Candid’s Director of Partnerships, Brian Schultz, and Siegel ...

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GDConnect 2023 Takeaways

In September, GivingData’s community came together for our annual user group, GDConnect, in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Attendees gathered to ...

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Meet Our Team: Jeremiah Tan

Jeremiah Tan [pictured above], joined GivingData to combine his two passions: technology and helping others. Through his role as a Client Success ...

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Trust-Based Philanthropy: Electronic Grant Management System

Trust-based philanthropy is a transformative approach to grantmaking that emphasizes trust, transparency, and partnership between funders and ...

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GivingData Collaborates with Candid to Advance Equitable Funding Practices

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software to family and independent foundations, ...

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A Grant Cycle Management Software: Streamlining the Grant Lifecycle

Managing grants can be a complex and time-consuming process, involving various stages from conception and application to awarding and assessment. In ...

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Roles in Grants Management within a Foundation's Strategy Lifecycle

On August 16, 2023, Roberto Cremonini sat down with Abigail Osei, Assistant Vice President at The Starr Foundation, to discuss the many roles grants ...

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GivingData Promotes Roberto Cremonini to Chief Innovation Officer

CAMBRIDGE, MA, September 27, 2023 - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software for family and independent foundations, has named ...

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Improve Foundation Grants with Management Software

Managing and distributing large amounts of grants is a complex task that requires extensive organization, communication, and oversight. This means ...

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Navigating Grants Management Roles in a Foundation’s Strategic Journey

This webinar is provided in partnership with PEAK Grantmaking.

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Best Practices for Switching Grants Management Systems

Download our latest eBook with best practices for foundations transitioning to a new GMS. For this blog, we interviewed GivingData clients to ...

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Grant Management System Software: A Platform for Success

When you’re working with multiple grants simultaneously, your time and effort can spread pretty thin. It might seem like your head is always in more ...

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GDConnect: Empowering Connections and Innovation

Each year, GDConnect is a time for the GivingData community to come together, share new ideas, and learn from each other. Over the years, we’ve built ...

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Program Officers Look to Their GMS to Bolster Trust-based Philanthropy

As more foundations make trust-based philanthropy a cornerstone of their grantmaking, the role of program officers is changing. In addition to ...

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Hilton Foundation Enhances Grantmaking Efficiency & Consistency

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation issues hundreds of grants across a wide range of program areas every year, and suspected that their grantmaking ...

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Meet Our Team: Anne Hossner

Anne Hossner joined the GivingData team in 2023 as the Senior Manager of Learning and Enablement. In this role, Anne brings deep knowledge and ...

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What to Watch Out for in Grant Management Software Reviews

Finding the right grant management software for your foundation can often be a time consuming task. When you choose to go with a grant management ...

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Grant Management Software System: Platforms for Creating Relationships

At the end of the day, grant management is all about collaboration and relationships. From the individuals and organizations who provide the funds, ...

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Impactful Takeaways from PEAK2023

Earlier this month, the PEAK Grantmaking community reconnected in person for the first time in three years at PEAK2023, which promised to be a ...

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Streamline Grant Processes With Grant Management System Software

Grant management often requires in-depth and complex processes. The grant lifecycle begins with an idea or objective and walks through the steps from ...

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Using a Grant Management System to Grow as a Grants Manager

Grants management is often a complex task that requires grant managers to track and manage many moving parts while maintaining communication with ...

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Strengthening Impact & Relationships: How to Get More Out of Your GMS

Your grants management system should strengthen the work you do at every stage of your grantmaking. This goes beyond just saving the time of your ...

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GivingData is a Proud Supporter of PEAK2023

GivingData is proud to sponsor the online stream of the PEAK2023 sessions for virtual attendees. Members of the GivingData team across product, ...

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5 Benefits of Using an Online Grant Management System

Proper grant management is essential to the grantmaking process. Managing grants efficiently not only ensures that grants are being used properly but ...

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What to Look for When Doing a Grant Management Software Comparison

In order for a foundation’s grant management strategy to be effective and successful, there needs to be a reliable and versatile grant management ...

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A Model for Grantee Portal Success

Grantee portals and the support they require differ from one foundation to another. This can be due to a number of factors including how the ...

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Activating Your Grantee Portal: Best Practices for Adoption and Support

A grantee portal is an excellent tool for foundations to streamline grant application and approval processes while reducing the administrative burden ...

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What is Grant Workflow Management Software?

Grant workflow management software is a tool designed to help organizations manage the entire grant lifecycle. It provides a single platform to ...

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GivingData Launches New Cloud Solution for In-App Document Storage

GivingData Cloud provides grantmakers with enhanced flexibility.

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The Past, Present, and Future of Trust-Based Philanthropy

For over three years, the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project has addressed the power imbalances between funders, nonprofits, and communities.

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Hybrid Work in Philanthropy: Lessons Learned from Two Foundations

In March 2020, organizations in almost every industry were forced to quickly shift to remote work. Though they relied on many of the same ...

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Trust-Based Philanthropy: A Conversation with Shaady Salehi

Shaady Salehi, Executive Director of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, sat down with Roberto Cremonini to discuss the past, present, and future ...

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Selecting the Best Grant Management Software For Your Foundation

Grants management software is a powerful tool for grantmakers. It can streamline grantmaking processes, strengthen communication between grantees and ...

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Setting 2023 Intentions with Satonya Fair and Roberto Cremonini

On January 24, 2023, President and CEO of PEAK Grantmaking, Satonya Fair, joined GivingData’s Roberto Cremonini for another discussion to kick off ...

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Moving Conversations to Collaboration: Setting 2023 Intentions

Watch Roberto Cremonini and featured guest Satonya Fair, President and CEO of PEAK Grantmaking, discuss ways for grantmakers and foundations to set ...

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Top GMS Features Grantmakers Are Looking for in 2023

More than a decade ago, GivingData was built hand-in-hand with grantmakers who needed better technology to help them do their work. We continue to ...

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GivingData Expands Partnership with DocuSign for E-Signatures

New enhancements enable foundation teams to leverage native GivingData in-app functionality. CAMBRIDGE, MA, January 11, 2023 - GivingData, a leading ...

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Grants Management System Demo: Exploring the Latest in GivingData

In this video, our team takes you through a 45-minute demo of GivingData's grants management system, highlighting features that were recently ...

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GivingData's New Homepage Personalizes Your Grants Management Experience

Becoming a more efficient grantmaking operation relies on having quick and easy access to your most pressing tasks and data points.

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New Feature Review: GivingData's New Personalized Homepage

In this webinar, we present GivingData's newly designed homepage, which allows you to access all of your most important work from your home screen, ...

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How Grantmakers are Putting Trust-Based Philanthropy into Action

At the core of the trust-based philanthropy (TBP) movement is an invitation to grantmakers to center their work around advancing equity, ending power ...

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Four Time-Tested Strategies for Monitoring and Evaluation Success

Contributed by Jacob Allen, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Social Impact Practice and Callie Kennel, Engagement Manager at Cicero Group. ...

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How GivingData Strengthens the Way Grantmakers Work

In this webinar, we explore how our grants management software is used by foundations both large and small to streamline their processes and ...

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Why GivingData Is the Best Grant Management Software

Are you looking for the best grant management software to help strengthen your grantmaking? Look no further than GivingData. GivingData is an ...

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What Does TAG’s 2022 Survey Tell Us About Family Foundations?

The recently released TAG (Technology Association of Grantmakers) 2022 State of Philanthropy survey report includes insights that may help family ...

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Meet Our Team: Angela Shen

Angela Shen [pictured above with her Toy Australian Shepard, Mocha] joined GivingData after working as a user experience designer at the nonprofit ...

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5 Critical Grants Management Tools to Streamline Your Grantmaking

In this webinar, you'll discover some of the innovative grants management tools that foundations use to support the entire grant lifecycle, why ...

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New Feature Review: Google Drive and Dropbox Integration

GivingData's new Google Drive and Dropbox integrations allow you to easily link to grant documents directly from your GMS. These new capabilities ...

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GivingData Launches New Integrations with Google Drive and Dropbox

Latest platform updates offer grantmakers four options for cloud-based document collaboration.

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Doing More with Less: How Smart Technology Supports Lean Funders

Last year, foundations in the U.S. contributed more than 90 billion dollars to nonprofit programs feeding the hungry, educating the next generation, ...

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GivingData Announces New Senior Director, Head of Security

Atif Manzoor brings deep industry expertise overseeing cyber security for Fortune 500 companies. Cambridge, MA, September 28, 2022 – GivingData, a ...

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Donnelley Foundation Enhances Relationships with GivingData

In the video below, learn how the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation: Streamlined the grantmaking process for themselves and grantees Improved ...

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Reduce Barriers and Increase Collaboration with Grantees

Foundations need two things to improve their grantees' application experience: a streamlined and trust-based process, and a technology that supports ...

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Say Hello to New GivingData Dashboards

Philanthropy is a dynamic field where forward-thinking funders constantly evolve to more effectively support the work of their nonprofit partners. ...

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GivingData Supports the #FixtheForm Movement

Birds of a feather flock together. It’s an old proverb but one that may explain why so many of us at GivingData attended Kari Aanestad’s and Laura ...

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GivingData Introduces Chart View For Enhanced Data Visualization

Every day, grantmakers generate and process large amounts of grant, contact, and communication data inside GivingData. Productivity can be inhibited ...

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New Feature Review: Data Visualizations and Updated Dashboards

GivingData's new data visualization capabilities allow grantmakers to build charts on nearly any dataset created using our Super Search tool. This ...

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Houston Endowment Uses Portfolio Management to Engineer System Change

Reflecting back on 2017, the team at Houston Endowment could not have envisioned how their grantmaking processes would evolve following their ...

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Communication Tools that Enhance Your Grantee Relationships

Get a first-hand look inside GivingData's Grantee Relationship Management (GRM) tool and newly improved batch email integrations. Designed to help ...

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Roberto Cremonini on His New Role and Goals to Spark Innovation and Impact

After leading GivingData’s business development efforts for three years, Roberto Cremonini recently transitioned into the new role of SVP, Client ...

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GivingData Appoints Eric Jones Product Manager

CAMBRIDGE, MA, February 23, 2022 - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software for family and independent foundations, has promoted ...

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Orchestrate System Change using GivingData’s Portfolio Management Tool

Foundations have learned the hard way that trying to affect system change one grant at a time can quickly turn into a quixotic effort. What is needed ...

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Feature Review: In-App Email, Personalized Dashboards & Multi-Currency

GivingData’s newest features help you move more of your grantmaking into a single platform, streamlining your planning, budgeting, and grantee ...

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Roberto Cremonini Appointed SVP of Client Innovation

CAMBRIDGE, MA, February 8, 2022 - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software for family and independent foundations, today ...

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Align Grant Application Process with Trust-Based Practices

With the philanthropic sector steadily adopting more trust-based practices, there has never been a more appropriate time to focus on easing the ...

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Introducing Personalized Dashboards, In-App Email, and Multi-Currency

Enhancements include personalized dashboards offering customizable views of grantmaking data for grant managers, program officers, and senior ...

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Transforming Philanthropy Together: Setting 2022 Intentions

Hear GivingData's Roberto Cremonini and featured guest, Satonya Fair, President & CEO, PEAK Grantmaking discuss ways to set goals and intentions ...

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Meet Our Team: Mila Whiteley

Mila Whiteley joined GivingData after working as a grants management assistant at a DC-area foundation. She brought with her not only hands-on ...

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How GRM Tools Can Improve Your Grantmaking Processes and Impact

Many legacy grants management systems were built to manage grants, not relationships. And yet more funders than ever say their success as grantmakers ...

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Highlights from GDConnect 2021

by Alf Gracombe, CEO‍

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What's Next for #FixTheForm?

by Roberto Cremonini, SVP, Business Development‍

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From Search to Launch: 5 Tips for a Successful GMS Implementation

For many foundations, the journey to selecting a new Grants Management System (GMS) takes months, sometimes even years. It involves hours of staff ...

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Platform Tour: See What a Purpose-Built GMS Can Do for Your Foundation

In this webinar, Roberto Cremonini and Astrik Tenney provided a tour of GivingData, showcasing a few of our top grants management system features ...

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Meet Our Team: Joe Bindert

Joe Bindert is a Senior Application Developer at GivingData with a passion for using technology to solve business problems and create easy-to-use ...

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Four Takeaways from PEAK2021

by David Goldsmith, SVP, Strategy

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Supporting Transparency: Democratizing Data with GivingData

‍by Astrik Tenney, Principal, Business Development

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Five Ways to Unlock the Hidden ROI of Your GMS

‍by Astrik Tenney, Principal, Business Development

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Astrik Tenney Joins GivingData as Principal, Business Development

BOSTON, MARCH 3, 2021 -- GivingData announced today that Astrik Tenney has joined the company as Principal, Business Development. Tenney previously ...

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GivingData Rolls Out New Subscription Tiers for Grantmaking Foundations

Product line-up offers scalable, purpose-built solutions for small, mid-sized, and large funders CAMBRIDGE, MA, February 23 2021 - GivingData today ...

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Meet Our Team: Eric Jones

Before joining GivingData, Eric Jones spent his early professional life as a program officer in the foundation community. After earning his Masters ...

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eGrant Reporting

A demonstration of how to prepare a file for eGrant Reporting to the Foundation Center.

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Meet Our Team: Mitra Ahi

Mitra Ahi joined GivingData just over a year ago as a software quality assurance specialist. Having spent her early career in software testing and ...

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Will COVID-19 and inequality transform grantmaking sooner?

‍by David Goldsmith, SVP, Strategy‍ This is an extraordinary moment in philanthropy. The twin crises of COVID-19 and civil unrest in the wake of ...

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Scenario Planning: A Tool for Grantmakers When Uncertainty is High

One of my favorite quotes comes from a song John Lennon wrote for his four-year-old son, Sean. As Lennon comforts his son and muses on the days to ...

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Meet Our Team: Stan Zakharin, Principal Software Engineering

Stan Zakharin is a full stack software engineer who joined GivingData after a three-year stint building software applications for financial services ...

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GivingData Announces E-Signature Integrations with Adobe Sign and DocuSign

Boston, MA, July 20, 2020 - GivingData is pleased to announce two new integrations to support automated and paperless agreements between foundations ...

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Adaptive workflows support agile grantmaking in changing times

Workflows form the backbone of the grantmaking process. They ensure grant requests are reviewed efficiently and fairly, payments are paid accurately ...

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Meet Our Team: Breanna Wong, Principal, Product Design

Breanna Wong is a user-experience designer who started her journey with GivingData four years ago. She joined the company as our first front-end ...

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Enhance grantee collaboration with GivingData's GRM

A few years ago I was given a cool opportunity to consult for a new community foundation on a project to help the region's grantmakers leverage data ...

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A Message from Our Team: We Must Fight for Social Justice

As a purpose-driven company with a mission to strengthen the work of social impact organizations, we stand with those fighting to end systemic racism ...

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David Goldsmith Joins GivingData as SVP of Strategy

BOSTON, April 28, 2020 -- GivingData today announced that David Goldsmith has joined the company as senior vice president of strategy. Goldsmith most ...

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COVID-19 Update

This message was sent to our clients about how GivingData is responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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GivingData Brings Two New Portal Products to Market

Cambridge, MA: GivingData, a cloud-based data platform for small, mid-sized and large grantmaking foundations, today announced the launch of two new ...

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GivingData at PEAK 2020

We look forward to seeing you at the annual PEAK Conference in Seattle (March 9-11). Please stop by and visit us in the Exhibit Hall to learn more ...

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