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Navigating Grants Management Roles in a Foundation’s Strategic Journey

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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