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GDConnect 2024: Connecting, Inspiring, and Driving Social Impact
GDConnect 2024 was a powerful reminder of the strength, insight, and collective impact of the GivingData community. This year’s event showcased how ...
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GDConnect 2024 was a powerful reminder of the strength, insight, and collective impact of the GivingData community. This year’s event showcased how ...
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Effective grantmaking often starts with great processes. Grantmakers leverage technology and work diligently to establish internal and grantee-facing ...
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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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This webinar was provided in partnership with PEAK Grantmaking.
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How better systems led to foundation-wide collaboration, meaningful grantee relationships, organizational resiliency, and greater impact.
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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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Grantmaking organizations are constantly seeking ways to increase efficiency. Ideally, this involves keeping all of their grantmaking data and ...
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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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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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We interviewed five equity-committed grantmaking organizations to understand the principles that guide their equitable grantmaking: Libra Foundation, ...
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While grantmakers often encourage collaboration among their nonprofit partners and grantees, they often struggle to provide the formal support that ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 19, 2024 (Newswire.com) - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software to family and private foundations, ...
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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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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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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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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software to private foundations, today announced ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software to family and independent foundations, ...
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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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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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GivingData’s Chief Innovation Officer, Roberto Cremonini, hosted this webinar with Candid’s Director of Partnerships, Brian Schultz, and Siegel ...
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In September, GivingData’s community came together for our annual user group, GDConnect, in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Attendees gathered to ...
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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 is a transformative approach to grantmaking that emphasizes trust, transparency, and partnership between funders and ...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software to family and independent foundations, ...
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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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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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CAMBRIDGE, MA, September 27, 2023 - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software for family and independent foundations, has named ...
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Managing and distributing large amounts of grants is a complex task that requires extensive organization, communication, and oversight. This means ...
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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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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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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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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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White Paper
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 proud to sponsor the online stream of the PEAK2023 sessions for virtual attendees. Members of the GivingData team across product, ...
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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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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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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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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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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 Cloud provides grantmakers with enhanced flexibility.
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For over three years, the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project has addressed the power imbalances between funders, nonprofits, and communities.
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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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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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Grants management software is a powerful tool for grantmakers. It can streamline grantmaking processes, strengthen communication between grantees and ...
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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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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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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
New enhancements enable foundation teams to leverage native GivingData in-app functionality. CAMBRIDGE, MA, January 11, 2023 - GivingData, a leading ...
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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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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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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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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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Contributed by Jacob Allen, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Social Impact Practice and Callie Kennel, Engagement Manager at Cicero Group. ...
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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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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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The recently released TAG (Technology Association of Grantmakers) 2022 State of Philanthropy survey report includes insights that may help family ...
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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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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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Latest platform updates offer grantmakers four options for cloud-based document collaboration.
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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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Atif Manzoor brings deep industry expertise overseeing cyber security for Fortune 500 companies. Cambridge, MA, September 28, 2022 – GivingData, a ...
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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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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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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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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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Every day, grantmakers generate and process large amounts of grant, contact, and communication data inside GivingData. Productivity can be inhibited ...
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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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White Paper
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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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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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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CAMBRIDGE, MA, February 23, 2022 - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software for family and independent foundations, has promoted ...
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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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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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CAMBRIDGE, MA, February 8, 2022 - GivingData, a leading provider of grants management software for family and independent foundations, today ...
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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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Enhancements include personalized dashboards offering customizable views of grantmaking data for grant managers, program officers, and senior ...
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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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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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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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by Roberto Cremonini, SVP, Business Development
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Blogs
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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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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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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by David Goldsmith, SVP, Strategy
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by Astrik Tenney, Principal, Business Development
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by Astrik Tenney, Principal, Business Development
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BOSTON, MARCH 3, 2021 -- GivingData announced today that Astrik Tenney has joined the company as Principal, Business Development. Tenney previously ...
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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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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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A demonstration of how to prepare a file for eGrant Reporting to the Foundation Center.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This message was sent to our clients about how GivingData is responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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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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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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