GivingData Announces the Promotion of 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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How Grant Management Software for Foundations Improves the Application and Review Process
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
We interviewed GivingData clients to understand their experience with implementing a new grants management system, what they learned, and best ...
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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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The Hilton Foundation Improves Efficiency in Grantmaking & Consistency in Grantee Experience
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
On March 2, 2023, Shaady Salehi, Executive Director of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, sat down with Roberto Cremonini to discuss the past, ...
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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 to Strengthen E-Signature Integration
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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GivingData Is the Best Grant Management Software for Your Foundation, Here's Why
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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Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Bolsters Grantee Relationships through GivingData’s GRM [Video]
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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GivingData Appoints Roberto Cremonini Senior Vice President of Client Innovation and Impact
CAMBRIDGE, MA, February 8, 2022 - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software for family and independent foundations, today ...
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Transform Your Grant Application Process to Align 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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From Search to Launch: 5 Tips for a Successful GMS Implementation
By Eric Jones, Director, Product Management
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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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Democratizing Data: How GivingData Supports Intra-organizational Transparency
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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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 the twin crises of COVID-19 and systemic inequality transform grantmaking sooner than we expected?
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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