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The latest blog post on the NW Nonprofit Blog, by AE Consulting, strongly recommends monitoring trends from the giving-side as a part of your development and grant seeking strategy - guest blogger Katie Howard (read more here: http://ae-consulting.blogspot.com/).

Yet another source crossed my desk that provides information from the giving-side. The Foundation Center released survey results on Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates. Responses indicate that foundation giving will likely continue to show consistent, albeit very modest, growth in 2013 (read more here: http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/fgge12.pdf).

• How will your organization use this information to plan for the future?
• What trends have you found valuable to monitor?

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