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Top Tips For Nonprofits Seeking Grants
Leverage these top grantseeking tips from our experts to help your organization find grants more efficiently and effectively.
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Funding beyond federal: How to diversify funding to ensure stability in uncertain times
Nonprofits are facing major funding shifts as federal grants shrink or disappear. This free course helps fundraisers build a more stable, diversified revenue strategy using practical approaches for foundation, corporate, and individual support.
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Introduction to Proposal Writing
This class will provide you with an overview of how to write a standard project proposal to a foundation.
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Why Candid Profiles and Seals of Transparency Matter
Discover how Candid Seals of Transparency build nonprofit credibility, trust, and visibility with funders.
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How to Claim Your Organization's Candid Profile
Learn how to claim your organization’s Candid profile so you can manage your information and start earning Seals of Transparency.
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How to Earn a Bronze Seal of Transparency
Learn why earning a Seal of Transparency boosts visibility, builds funder trust, and opens access to powerful fundraising tools.
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How to Earn a Silver Seal of Transparency
Show your nonprofit’s impact by adding program and population information to earn the Silver Seal of Transparency.
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How to Earn a Gold Seal of Transparency
Build deeper trust with funders by sharing financial and demographic transparency through the Gold Seal.
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How to Earn a Platinum Seal of Transparency
Demonstrate your organization’s long-term impact by sharing your goals, strategies, and outcomes through the Platinum Seal.
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Share Your Seal and Plan Ahead
Learn how to promote your Seal and keep your profile up to date so you never lose your transparency status.
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How can nonprofits use their Candid profile? A conversation with Meme Styles
Find out how nonprofit organizations like Measure are leveraging their Candid nonprofit profile and seeing tangible impact.
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Make Your Major Foundation and Corporate Grant Applications Stand Out
Identify key actions needed to launch or grow your major grants program, including foundation and corporate grant applications.
1 hr 21 min
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What Makes A Good Fundraising Proposal?
Get a funder's perspective on how to write a great fundraising proposal and stand out from other grant applicants.
7 min
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Three Top Tips For Writing Grant Proposals
Hear this grant writing expert's tips for how to write a grant proposal and win more funding for your organization.
3 min
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What Do Funders Look For In Grant Proposal Budgets?
Get tips for mastering one of the most important factors in grant applications: your proposal budget.
2 min
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Upgrade Your Grant Budget To Attract Major Foundation Funders
Maximize the potential of your grant budget and make your application stand out to funders with these tactics.
1 hr 29 min
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Introduction To Measuring Your Impact
Learn the basics of applying an outcomes thinking framework to your nonprofit’s programs in this video.
1 hour 30 mins
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Tips For Nonprofits Telling Their Story
Put these top storytelling tips and techniques into practice to elevate the way your nonprofit communicates with supporters online.
1 min
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Unlock These Benefits With A Candid Seal of Transparency
Learn how to unlock benefits with a Candid Seal of Transparency, including how to streamline your donor experience with Apple Pay.
4 min
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What Is A Digital Strategy?
Get step-by-step guidance on how to build a digital strategy for your nonprofit organization.
1 min
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A Funder’s Perspective on Collaboration and Strategic Alliances
Understand how strategic alliances could help your nonprofit or foundation strengthenlocal impact, improve services, and build sustainability.
1 hr 28 min
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Digital Storytelling: How to Engage and Activate Your Supporters Online
In this self-paced course, you will learn how to use a simple storytelling framework to enhance the clarity of your organization’s digital communications.
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How Can Organizations Craft Compelling Stories?
Master these four key components of compelling storytelling to improve digital communication with your nonprofit's supporters.
1 min
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How Can I Bring My Organization's Story To Life?
Learn how your organization can utilize videos as an effective tool to tell your nonprofit story in an engaging way.
1 min
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What Is The Best Way To Connect With Your Supporters?
Hear quick tips on how your nonprofit can use digital storytelling to more deeply connect with supporters and attract new audiences.
1 min
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Transform Your Board’s Fundraising in 90 Days
Harness the collective fundraising power of your nonprofit board members and deepen overall board engagement.
1 hr 19 min
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Boost Your Visibility & Funding By Listening To The People You Serve
Learn how to strengthen nonprofit programs and increase visibility to funders by gathering and acting on feedback from the populations you serve.
58 min
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Before You Seek a Grant: A Checklist for New Nonprofits
Determine whether your nonprofit is ready to start seeking foundation grants in this step-by-step checklist.
0 hr 46 min
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Put Your Donor Data to Work: Five Frameworks to Develop Your Top KPIs
Learn how you can utilize existing donor data to develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and improve your decision-making.
1 hr 26 min
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Fast, Free, And Available Now: Candid's Demographics API
Discover the power of Candid's Demographics API. Learn how to access this nonprofit data and get details on the features, functionality, and benefits.
39 min
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Practical Tips On Adding Demographic Data To Profiles
Learn the basics of gathering demographic information for your nonprofit, plus how you can use this data to boost your funding opportunities.
35 min
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The Nonprofit Experience: Insights On Demographic Data Collection
Explore how funders can help reduce barriers and support grantees around collecting and reporting demographic data in this insightful discussion.
58 min
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Demographics via Candid: Join the Movement
Realize how public data available through Demographics via Candid can benefit nonprofits, funders, researchers, and more.
55 min
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The Makings of a Great Development Director
Uncover best practices for hiring a nonprofit development director, setting goals for their position, and evaluating their performance.
1 hr 25 min
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Engaging Your Board In Equity-Centered Fundraising
Discover strategies to ignite your board's passion for fundraising and learn the importance of equity in your approach.
1 hr 12 min
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Nine Competencies Today’s Nonprofit Leaders Need for Success
Assess your current nonprofit leadership skills and learn how to identify opportunities for personal and professional development.
88 min
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The Power and Challenges Of The Black-Led Nonprofit
Gain tools that can be used by Black-led nonprofits to articulate funding needs as well as strategies that funders can use to help these nonprofits thrive.
1 hr 22 min
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Leveraging Community Assets To Enhance Your Nonprofit’s Impact
Uncover basic principles and practices of asset-based community development and how they can enhance the nonprofit sector.
1 hour 30 mins
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Rethinking Philanthropy: Indigenous-led Grantmaking
Learn how Indigenous and Native leaders are embracing traditional giving practices and introducing Indigenous-led grantmaking in their communities.
1 hr 25 min
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Inclusive Communication: An Introduction To The Vocabulary Of The Disability Community
Get an introduction to the lexicon of the disability community and appropriate language to use in the nonprofit and foundation context.
1 hr 19 min
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Attracting, Hiring, And Retaining People With Disabilities
Discover disability inclusion best practices, including how to advance accessibility in the workplace by recruiting, hiring, and promoting people with disabilities.
1 hr 21 min
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Reframing the Story: Investment in Black Men And Boys is Vital to Whole Community Health
Plan how to redirect philanthropic investments toward more equitable solutions, especially when considering Black men and boys.
1 hr 30 min
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Incorporating Gender Equity Into Your Nonprofit
Gain insight about the systemic challenges of gender disparity in the nonprofit sector and explore solutions to bridge this divide.
1 hr 15 min
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Incorporating an Equity Lens into Your Hiring Practices
Learn best practices for creating equitable hiring practies, including how to shape a role, set candidates up for success, and approach candidate evaluation.
1 hr 29 min
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In Her Shoes: Stories, Insights & Perspectives from Women of Color in Philanthropy
Hear insights from this dynamic panel of nonprofit professionals, focused on women of color in fundraising and philanthropy.
1 hr 45 min
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Foster an Inclusive Culture for Your LGBTQ+ Staff and Partners
Hear tips for creating a more inclusive work environment for LGBTQ+ employees and an increased ability to serve the LGBTQ+ community.
1 hr 28 min
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Establish an Organizational Culture That Supports Your DEI Initiatives
Get strategic advice on how nonprofit leaders can reimagine their organizational culture by grounding priorities in diversity and inclusion.
1 hr 24 min
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Designing Equity-Centered Organizational Values
Be inspired to reimagine your organizational values and commit to a values statement that centers and promotes equity.
1 hr 27 min
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Race, Gender, And Inequity In Nonprofit Consulting
Hear from a panel of Black women on their experiences working in the nonprofit sector, including insights for those exploring a career in nonprofit consulting.
1 hr 25 min
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Collective Power: Using Data In Your Equity Journey
Understand how Demographics via Candid can help inform equitable grantmaking decisions and reduce burdens for nonprofits.
0 hr 54 min
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Centering Intersectional Feminism In Philanthropy And Beyond
Hear from Women’s Funding Network members on the power and importance of feminism in philanthropy. Learn how to partner with women's funds in your community.
1 hr 25 min
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Build A More Disability-Inclusive Organization With RespectAbility
Identify ways your organization can create a more disability-inclusive workplace. Learn how to access free disability inclusion resources.
0 hr 22 min
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Activating the Collective Power of Latino Engagement and Giving – A Virtuous Circle
Leverage the power of Latino philanthropy and apply strategies and tools to engage Latino communities in your mission.
1 hr 29 min
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Is Consulting Your Next Calling?
Uncover the top issues to consider and key questions to ask yourself when exploring a career in nonprofit consulting.
1 hr 28 min
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From Scarcity To Abundance
Develop an understanding of how grantmakers can use abundance framing to be better champions of nonprofit organizations.
1 hr 27 min
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Get Ready For GivingTuesday
Watch this conversation between fundraising experts to get easy tips to help maximize your nonprofit's success ahead of GivingTuesday.
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7 Lessons Learned from Nonprofit Leaders
Avoid mistakes commonly made by nonprofit leadership in order to foster better collaboration and internal culture.
1 hr 22 min
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Introduction to Project Budgets
If preparing a budget for your foundation grant is holding you back, come learn the basic elements of how to draft a project budget with confidence.
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Catalysts for Change: Non Governing Boards as Pipelines for Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Leadership
Reach emerging leaders and pipelines of diverse talent for your nonprofit by leveraging junior boards, young professional boards, and advisory councils.
1 hr 26 min
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Shifting the Narrative to Advance Racial Equity
Apply communication best practices at your nonprofit or foundation to advance racial equity and promote narrative change.
1 hr 29 min
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From Preparedness to Recovery: Fundraising for Natural Disasters
Learn how to proactively approach disaster relief fundraising by strategically positioning your organization to fundraise ahead of and after an event.
1 hr 28 min
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Funding beyond federal: How to diversify funding to ensure stability in uncertain times
Learn how to diversify nonprofit funding, discover new revenue streams, and strengthen financial resilience in this three-hour virtual intensive for experienced fundraisers.
2 hr 30 min
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Introduction to Foundation Directory
Discover how to identify funders and find grants for your nonprofit with Foundation Directory, the most comprehensive research tool for fundraisers.
1 hour 5 mins
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Boost Engagement with Donor-Advised Fund Donors with Tips from Vanguard Charitable
Learn from experts at Vanguard Charitable about how donor advisors make giving decisions — and how your Candid profile plays a key role in powering DAF's.
41 Minutes
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How Candid Helps Nonprofits
This orientation to Candid's nonprofit resources will help you discover tools to effectively fundraise, learn from peers, and tell your organization’s story.
1 hour 5 mins
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Is Starting a Nonprofit Right for You?
Live webinar | November 20, 2025 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT - Are you thinking of starting a nonprofit? Attend our free class, learn the basic legal and structural steps, and explore if starting a nonprofit is the right course of action for you.
90 Minutes
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Navigating Federal Funding Cuts - A Peer Discussion for Housing Organizations
Virtual peer exchange | November 18, 2025 at 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET/11 a.m - 12:30 p.m. PT - Join fellow nonprofit leaders working in housing to discuss how organizations are adapting to changes in federal funding, exploring solutions to sustain critical services, and identifying ways to support each other through these uncertain times.
90 Minutes
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Introduction to Individual Giving
Live webinar | December 9, 2025 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT - Learn the key elements of an individual giving program and walk away with next steps for starting or improving your own.
90 Minutes
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Introduction to Finding Grants
Discover what funders are looking for in nonprofits seeking grants and how to find potential funders in this introductory course.
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Ask Me Anything: Emergency Funding
Live webinar | December 2, 2025 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT - Lost federal support and/or grants and need emergency funding? Curious how to create and implement an emergency fundraising plan? You're not alone. There has never been a more important time to learn individual major gifts prospecting.
90 Minutes
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Nonprofit Best Practices: Fundraising
In-person (Westlake, OH) | November 20, 2025 at 10 a.m. ET - Get an overview of the current fundraising environment, an introduction to current fundraising planning, and an overview of Candid resources
90 Minutes
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Introduction to Finding Grants
Live webinar | December 11, 2025 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT - Are you new to the field of grantseeking? Discover what funders are looking for in nonprofits seeking grants and how to find potential funders in this introductory course.
90 Minutes
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Introduction to Project Budgets
Live webinar | December 16, 2025 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT - Come learn the basic elements of how to draft a project budget for a grant proposal with confidence.
90 Minutes
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Find and Build Relationships with Nonprofit Partners
Learn how to use advanced features to find nonprofit partners, conduct due diligence, and connect efficiently.
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Finding Nonprofits on Candid Search
Explore the new Candid search to streamline your nonprofit research with core features.
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Introduction to Finding Grants
Discover what funders are looking for in nonprofits seeking grants and how to find potential funders in this introductory course.
1 hour 28 mins
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Introduction to Fundraising Planning
This introductory class will provide you the basic steps for developing a fundraising plan.
1 hour 20 mins
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Introduction to Proposal Writing
Explore the essential components of a compelling proposal, including crafting a persuasive statement of need, detailing your project, budgeting smartly, and concluding with impact.
1 hour 22 mins
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Search for nonprofits on Candid
With Candid, you can look up nonprofits important to you based on keyword, location, populations served, and more.
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Introduction to Project Budgets
Learn the basic elements of how to draft a project budget for a grant proposal with confidence.
1 hour 26 mins
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Ask Me Anything: Individual Giving
This Ask Me Anything session addresses how to raise money from individuals to diversify your funding streams.
57 mins
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