Casey DeSain
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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 highlights in this video the ease…
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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 understand their experience with implementing…
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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. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plays a critical…
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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 imbalances in grantor-grantee relationships,…
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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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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 foundation views…
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Exploring Disposition: How to Forecast Early Stage Requests Without Impacting Budget
In this new feature webinar, we cover the new Exploring Disposition and showcase how a user can create scenarios without impacting the budget in the Payment, Approvals,…
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5 Considerations for a foundation Connect 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 they…
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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 participate in a series of thought-provoking discussions,…

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