Published: June 9, 2026 · By May Piamenta How this guide was made: This guide is based on publicly available nonprofit fundraising data, including the 2026 Virtuous Nonprofit Benchmark Report, which draws on giving data from 771 US-based nonprofits. Where statistics are cited, the source is noted directly. We've been transparent throughout about where Vee fits into the picture. Picture this: it's Thursday afternoon, a grant deadline is Friday, your donor acknowledgment email

Published: June 4, 2026 · By May Piamenta Picture this: it's Tuesday morning, your inbox has three funder newsletters you haven't opened in two weeks, a spreadsheet of "promising grants" that's six months out of date, and a proposal due Friday that you haven't started. You're one person. You're also responsible for programs, communications, and probably the office coffee order. This is the reality for most organizations running their grant programs on sheer willpower. The gap

Published: June 1, 2026 · Updated: June 9, 2026 · Author: May Piamenta Picture this: it's Tuesday morning, your grant deadline is Friday, and you're the only person in the building who knows how to write a proposal. Your executive director is in back-to-back program meetings, your spreadsheet has seventeen tabs, and you just found a promising foundation opportunity that closes in three weeks. Sound familiar? Running a lean fundraising operation in 2026 means one or two peopl

Published: May 31, 2026 · By May Piamenta At Vee, we have always believed nonprofits do not need more tools. They need real support. Real capacity. Real teammates. That is why we are excited to introduce one of the biggest updates we have made to Maggie yet: a new consolidated AI experience designed to feel less like software, and more like an actual member of your team. What Is Maggie? Maggie is Vee's AI social media assistant built specifically for nonprofits. She handles t

If you're managing grants, donor communications, reporting, and events all at once, you already know the 2026 fundraising environment isn't just harder. It's harder in ways that specifically punish small teams. Federal funding volatility, rising funder scrutiny, and intensifying competition for foundation dollars are colliding at the exact moment when most organizations have the fewest resources to respond. The result: proposals go unfinished, deadlines get missed, and the pe

Published: May 21, 2026 · By May Piamenta Your grant wasn't rejected because your proposal was bad. That's a hard thing to hear — and an even harder thing to believe after you've spent weeks crafting a letter of intent, gathering data, and writing draft after draft. But the truth is, most nonprofit grant rejections have nothing to do with the quality of your work or your writing. They have everything to do with psychology, framing, and factors nobody tells you about. After w

CUSTOMER SINCE June 2024 TOTAL FUNDING SECURED $32,500 GRANTS WON 3 POSTS PUBLISHED WITH MAGGIE 180+ Cloud Veterans Scaling veteran impact through long-term funding and visibility with Vee Industry: Veteran Employment / Workforce Development Use Case: Grant matching, grant writing, and social media management Time as a Customer: Since June 2024 (2 years) Results: $32,500 secured across grants 3 grants won 180+ posts published with Maggie 100+ veterans served 2-year partnersh

A Mission Built Around Second Chances In the UK, roughly 80% of people in prison are reoffenders. Behind that statistic is a system that continues to struggle with rehabilitation — and a cost of more than £50,000 per year for every person kept in prison. The Twinning Project was created to challenge that cycle. Founded by UK football figure David Dean, the nonprofit partners with prisons, football clubs, and governing bodies to deliver accredited football coaching qualificati

Picture this: it's Tuesday morning, and your to-do list already has a grant deadline, three donor follow-ups, and a board report due by Friday. Somewhere in the middle of all that, you're supposed to post on Instagram, respond to comments from last week's campaign, and plan next month's content calendar. For most nonprofit teams, social media isn't a dedicated function. It's the thing that happens in the gaps between everything else. The stakes are real. Maintaining a consist