Guides for nonprofit and church leaders
Practical help with the weekly office work for your nonprofit, temple, church or community group. Every example uses made-up records.
Grantkeeper guides
- How to keep a Google Ad Grants account active: The rules Google checks on every Ad Grants account, and how Grantkeeper reviews them with you each week.
- The Ad Grants 5% CTR rule: What the 5% click-through rate rule measures, when a month counts, and the usual ways to raise a low rate.
- Conversion tracking for Ad Grants: Which actions count as conversions for Ad Grants, the two ways to set them up, and how Grantkeeper checks they are recorded.
- Google Ad Grants for churches: How churches qualify for Google Ad Grants, what to advertise, and the audience rules for places of worship.
- Fixing disapproved Ad Grants ads: Find out why Google disapproved an ad, fix the ad or the page it links to, and know when an appeal makes sense.
- Nonprofit volunteer follow-up: A simple follow-up rhythm for volunteers: a welcome, a reminder before the shift, and a thank-you with hours, drafted by Grantkeeper.
- Donor thank-you workflow: A weekly routine for thanking donors: check which gifts came in, write personal notes, and prepare the acknowledgment wording the IRS describes.
- Event promotion with Ad Grants: Plan an event page and a paused Ad Grants campaign a few weeks ahead, then pause it and review the results after the event.
- Board report prep for small nonprofits: Build a board packet from last month’s actions and this month’s reports, with the source beside every number.
- Nonprofit website pages that convert: What a donation, volunteer, event or program page needs so visitors can act, and what Google’s Ad Grants website policy asks for.
- AI assistant for small nonprofits: What a texting assistant can take off a small nonprofit’s week: Ad Grants checks, page drafts, donor thanks, volunteer notes and board prep.
- Ad Grants keyword rules: Single-word keywords, generic phrases and Quality Scores of 1 or 2: what Google’s Ad Grants keyword policy asks and how to clean up.
- How to find grants that fit your nonprofit: Where small nonprofits and churches find grant funders, how to read a foundation’s tax return for fit, and how Grantkeeper keeps watch.
- SAM.gov and Grants.gov registration for small nonprofits: What a small nonprofit or church needs before a first federal grant application, how long registration takes, and how to keep it from lapsing.
- Turning photos, receipts and PDFs into records: How Grantkeeper reads photos, receipts, sign-in sheets and documents and turns them into spreadsheets and records, and where its limits are.
- Flyers, pages and a simple website without a web person: How Grantkeeper makes printable flyers, phone pages your team uses, and a small public website, and which of those need extra setup.
- Grant calendar: A grant is more than an application deadline. Keep report dates, staff inputs and review time in one small register that your team can maintain.
- Donor follow-up: Keep the gift record, the receipt review and the personal thank-you connected without treating them as the same job. A small, checked log is enough to start.
- Volunteer scheduling and ministry signups: Build a clear roster from people’s actual choices and availability. Keep proposed cover, accepted shifts and completed training as separate facts.
- Church bulletins in English and Spanish: Use one checked set of event facts for both languages. Prepare a readable bulletin, review it locally and update the printed and online versions together.
- Board packets and 990 records: Prepare a board packet people can check, then gather and organize the year-end records your qualified preparer requests. Keep decisions, evidence and open questions clear.
- Event pages and signup review: Give people the facts they need, then test the full signup path. Keep page drafts, public pages, registrations and actual attendance as separate records.
- Monthly Ad Grants review: Use the weekly account check as one input to a fuller monthly review. Keep measured results, policy questions and items the assistant cannot check visible.
- Grant reporting evidence: Build a report from the funder’s actual questions and your checked records. Keep activity, outcomes, expenses and missing evidence distinct so another person can review the draft.