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How Grantmakers are Adapting to a New Normal
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Jessica Gronich

How Grantmakers are Adapting to a ‘New Normal’

COVID-19 has significantly changed the way many arts organizations have been managing their work over the past few months, playing a huge role in how grantmakers are adapting to a new normal. A lot of these changes have forced organizations to rethink how they function and support their local organizations,

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Tell Your Story with Data
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Jessica Gronich

Tell Your Story With Data

By using an online grant management system like GO Smart, you will have a giant pool of data at your disposal to help tell your stories. When you want to tell your story with data, you may not be a graphic designer (or a millennial!) but you can easily pull

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Be Nice to Your Applicants Grants Management
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Jessica Gronich

Be Nice to Your Applicants

 Here’s Why You Should Make Things Easier on Them—and Yourself! We all know that having a positive reputation among applicant pools is essential. It can help to ensure that you attract the best applicants to your grants. But do you know what your applicants really think about your application process?

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Power of the Panel - GO Smart
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Jessica Gronich

The Power of the Panel

The GO team is sharing four helpful tips to help you utilize the power of the panel to keep your grants management process effective and efficient. Just like standards for grant applications, panel processes can vary widely from organization to organization. Although customization for your specific needs can be great,

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Transitioning to Online Grants Management
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Jessica Gronich

Transitioning from paper to an online grants management system

Changing a tried and true process can be daunting in grants management due to the number of stakeholders involved in the process. You need an online grants management process that is simple for applicants, efficient for administrators, and easy for panelists–meeting all of these obligations is sometimes hard.Though it may

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