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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

So, how can we strategically navigate change? It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Unplanned change – responding to the unexpected.

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5 Tips for Community Health Centers to Transition to New Fund Accounting Software

sgEngage

It will help you envision the ease of an optimized structure for your chart of accounts and the business rules that will be most beneficial. This enables the vendor to account for everything and map your history to a new and optimized chart of accounts.

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Beyond the Audit: 6 Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm

sgEngage

The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor. Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

This effective guide will be a comprehensive blueprint to working at your organization, including links to relevant resources, steps for data entry, and flow charts outlining who is responsible for which tasks. Imagine having this toolkit of resources at your fingertips!

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The One Record Myth in K–12 School Software

sgEngage

We asked ourselves: “What if there’s a better way to structure our resources?” We created a centralized data management team. Now, if a board member or business officer asks for a report, we can quickly produce one using tables, line graphs, or charts and send a PDF or link to the report. We took two steps: 1.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. The information is often shared and received by another funder as an appreciated heads-up.

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Research Friday: Looking Back - 2011 makes a strong case for capital

ASU Lodestar Center

But it wasn’t just program change; management steps and tough decisions were also required. Nonprofits told us about their planned financial management actions in 2011: Nonprofit leaders have learned to expect the unexpected. Click here for more in-depth resources on the topic.). So what will next year bring? Get another!