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Future-Proof Your Grantmaking: How to Evolve Without Starting from Scratch
Effective grantmaking often starts with great processes. Grantmakers leverage technology and work diligently to establish internal and grantee-facing ...
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Equitable Grantmaking in Action: A Conversation with Candid and Siegel Family Endowment
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From Silo to Squad: How to Get Programs, Operations, and Executives Using Your GMS
So, your foundation has a grants management system (GMS). Whether you implemented it recently or have been using it for some time, you hopefully have ...
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How to Request, Understand, and Apply Grantee Feedback
This webinar is provided in partnership with PEAK Grantmaking.
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The Summit Foundation Increased Foundation-Wide Collaboration: A Grantmaker Story
How better systems led to foundation-wide collaboration, meaningful grantee relationships, organizational resiliency, and greater impact.
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What you learn by leaning into your community: reflections from the road
Since I started as GivingData’s CEO earlier this year, I’ve been fortunate to have a variety of opportunities to connect with the grantmaking ...
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7 Integrations Your Grants Management System Should Support
Grantmaking organizations are constantly seeking ways to increase efficiency. Ideally, this involves keeping all of their grantmaking data and ...
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Foundation-Wide GMS Adoption: Moving from Shadow Systems to a Single Source of Truth
Foundations often struggle with organization-wide grants management system adoption and many still rely on a frustrating mix of shadow spreadsheets ...
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Meet Our Support Team: The Heart of GivingData’s Industry-Leading Service
At GivingData, we believe that the heart of exceptional service lies in the dedication and expertise of our Support Team. This team doesn't just ...
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Equitable Grantmaking in Practice: Lessons from Five Equity-Committed Funders
We interviewed five equity-committed grantmaking organizations to understand the principles that guide their equitable grantmaking: Libra Foundation, ...
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Beyond Funding: How Grantmakers Are Advancing Nonprofit Collaboration
While grantmakers often encourage collaboration among their nonprofit partners and grantees, they often struggle to provide the formal support that ...
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3 Steps to Optimization: Get the Most Out of Your Grants Management System
Are you getting the most out of your grants management system? Are you leveraging all the tools available to your foundation in the most streamlined ...
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Meet Our Team: Breanna Wong
Inspired by the desire for impact on product and overall user success, Breanna Wong’s passion for design and helping others led her to GivingData—a ...
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3 Steps to Optimize Your Grants Management System
Do you feel like your grants management system (GMS) is no longer meeting your needs or are you having trouble remembering why you made the decisions ...
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Houston Endowment: Grantmaker Story [Video]
For Erin Forssman, the Director of Grants Management at Houston Endowment, the biggest benefit of GivingData has been the way the system has improved ...
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National Pet Day: Meet the GivingData Team's Purr-fect Companions
April 11 is National Pet Day! For the holiday, we wanted to highlight some of the furry companions at GivingData who support our team every day. We ...
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Co-location and Collaboration: A Concept for Lean Funders
In 2022, as the lease for the Sartain Lanier Family Foundation neared its expiration, Executive Director Pat Lummus reached out to her colleague ...
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James Graham Brown Foundation: Grantmaker Story [Video]
As the Senior Program Officer of the James Graham Brown Foundation, Bleik Pickett uses GivingData's Scenario Planning tool to think about the ...
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GivingData Unveils Gmail Integration for Grantee Relationship Management
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 2, 2024 (Newswire.com) - GivingData today announced the availability of its Google Gmail™ add-on to support seamless email ...
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GivingData Announces Open API Framework and Payment Processing
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, MicroEdge Gifts came on 5 1/4-inch ...
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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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Planning a Grant Management Software Transition: A Grantmaker's Guide
A transition to a new grants management software 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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Product Updates
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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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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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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Product Updates
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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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