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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Using "Customer/Jobs" and "Classes" Utilities

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QuickBooks is a relational database, and as such it offers a few ways to flag (or relate) transactions such as invoices, cash receipts, bills, cash disbursements, and journal entries to Customer/Jobs (funding sources) and Classes (programs). Let's say that the XYZ Foundation awards your nonprofit a grant for 2011.

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Open Data Kit: Mobile Phones for Social Change

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We were honored to meet him at the Nonprofit Technology Conference this year, where he accepted his award. The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest is an annual award for open source software developers who add significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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What is Corporate Giving? The Ultimate Guide to Earning More

Nonprofits Source

That donor checks to see if their donation is eligible for matching, either by doing their own research or using a matching gift database. That volunteer checks to see if their volunteer time is eligible for a volunteer grant, either by doing their own research or by using a volunteer grant database.

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Upcoming Webinar March 29: Mapping Philanthropy - Data Visualization for Good

Tech Soup

During this hour, the Foundation Center's George Ford and Jake Garcia will take a look at how grant seekers can use the interactive maps and charts in Foundation Directory Online , the Foundation Center’s grant seeking database for nonprofits, to identify prospective funders. You can learn more about the Foundation Center.

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What Is the Current State of Grantseeking? Community Development

Tech Soup

Community Improvement and Capacity Building: Fewer Grant Awards. of survey participants cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011 by GrantStation and PhilanTech). As always, if you use staff time to try to secure grant awards, staff have to leave behind their daily duties.

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The State of Grantseeking

Tech Soup

This past fall GrantStation and PhilanTech conducted the third semi-annual informal survey of nonprofits, The State of Grantseeking Fall 2011. Between mid-August and early October 2011, 928 nonprofits of various sizes, in different geographies, representing diverse issue areas completed the survey online.

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What is the Current State of Grantseeking? Arts, Culture, & Humanities

Tech Soup

Despite many challenges, nonprofits retain a sense of optimism about the next six months according to the survey results cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011). And it gets particularly interesting when you start looking at the responses from arts, culture, and humanities groups. What does that mean?

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