sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. Many grants, especially federal and state grants, are restricted.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You need data collection and data structure skills, not just a data entry person—someone who knows how your organization operates and the best ways for information to be delivered. In a small, grant-funded organization, you might not have these skills and that’s ok! Start now gathering the information you will need.

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Fund Software Community Tips 90

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Grant-funded nonprofits know compliance isn’t a nice-to-have. You might be able to win back an unhappy donor with a new program or event, but grant funders usually don’t get excited about silent auctions. When your accounting system is not built to handle restricted funding , each report can feel like a fire drill.

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System Grant Chart Fund 72

Blue Fox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

"Getting actionable financial data for grant writing all comes down to the setup of your financial systems." You know that you need to finish this grant request, but you’re stuck. The narrative is coming along, but your roadblock is the financial justification for the grant. And you’re right.

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Classes Grant Chart Tips 78

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Queries and reporting tools will provide an efficient means of building a list of relevant activities. 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. Likely no.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 76

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Reporting is a key aspect of nonprofit financial management. Essentially, this term refers to the process of pulling your documented financial data and communicating it to stakeholders. Besides promoting accountability at your organization, financial reporting is legally required according to government regulations for nonprofits.

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Report Guide Files Montana 52

Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Council on Foundations’ 2023 Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Report Key Findings (for which Candid provided data analysis) offer a broad picture: Median full-time staff salaries for select roles rose 5.49% between 2022 and 2023, i as reported by a non-representative panel of 514 grantmaking organizations.

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Rate Survey Roles Director 105

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Nonprofit annual reports play an important role as we head into the end of the fiscal year or the onset of giving season. Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact. DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI).

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Report Template Org Nonprofit 85

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately.

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Foundation Build Grant Fund 83

Bloomerang

JULY 9, 2021

Do your nonprofit’s financial reports speak to the full board? If your financial reports don’t go beyond numbers on a page, then they exclude almost all your leaders. . When a nonprofit’s whole financial report is just numbers straight from their accounting software, you can be sure some eyes will glaze over. 93 percent !

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Report Nonprofit eBook Chart 96

Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2023

After it stops collecting data in July of 2023, it officially will be deleting account data at the end of 2023. As the clock runs out on the year, consider the types of requests you start getting for historical data from Universal Analytics. More details on this from Google: Export and share reports – Analytics Help.

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University Analytics Data API 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid—commonly known as FAFSA®—is the form current and prospective college and career school students must fill out each year to qualify for federal financial aid, whether that be in the form of grants, loans, or work-study funds. The Better FAFSA promises greater transparency, too.

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Student Application Education Grant 85

sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

So, when it comes to communicating your impact story, many foundations need to rely on the data in their form 990 to tell their story. Understanding your grantee data through clear data governance is an essential part of managing and communicating your foundation’s impact story. The key is to be intentional.

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Story Impact Trend Grant 69

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

As a CPA working with nonprofits of all sizes, I’ve encountered numerous errors in Board of Directors’ financial reports and Statements of Activities documents. Being aware of these common pitfalls is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your financial reporting and in turn, the trust of your supporters.

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Activities Active Activism Comparison 80

Candid

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, did you know there are at least five different types of “years” when it comes to nonprofit data? Fiscal year When we talk about nonprofit data, though, perhaps the most important “year” to understand is the fiscal year. The chart below shows the percentage of nonprofits that have fiscal years ending in each month.

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Calendar Files Nonprofit Data 52

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting.

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Blackbaud Chart Denver Nonprofit 82

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

From gathering demographic data to understanding your grantees’ experiences, grantmaking organizations have been working through many multifaceted conundrums this year. Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming.

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Blackbaud Denver Demographics Case Study 92

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately.

Foundation 80

Foundation Build Fund Review 80

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

One study found that 86 percent of respondents believed that having a strategic plan positively impacted revenue generation through grants, donors, events, and other avenues. A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 119

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

Not only is it a mess to get accurate financial reports, you can’t get the data you need for grants which can wipe out your chances of getting grant funding. And going back to retroactively enter data is a huge time-consuming headache. MYTH: Nobody has time to enter data into an Accounting program.

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System Help Nonprofit Track 98

sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

At its most basic, a good budgeting workflow is a balance of the people who can make informed decisions, technology to manage the data, and documented processes for redundancy. Data and Technology : Understand the information you have available and where to find it. What Does a Nonprofit Budgeting Process Include?

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Process Create Review Stream 92

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m in Jacksonville, Florida today to open the plenary session of the Legal Services Corporation Technology Innovation Grant Annual gathering. In order to scale social justice outcomes, legal services needs to embrace the process of collecting and making sense of data to improve programs and get results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The report offers a couple of key findings: Nonprofits very much want to be able to understand their performance and are taking steps to do so. This is similar to the finding in the NTEN/Idealware study that discovered the barriers that keep nonprofits from collecting and using data: expertise, time, and money.

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Data Measure Sample Seattle 111

Blue Fox

APRIL 11, 2022

They just gained a financial thought partner and another set of hands to oversee accounting data entry, management, and reporting. The conversation was now all financials, processes, transfer of responsibility, data architecture, and high-level recommendations. Isn't it clear? What Blue Fox really delivers is peace of mind!

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Mind Analysis Chart Data 78

BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

How can they get the rest of the team to focus and understand the critical financial reports their nonprofit is generating? Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports. Here are seven tips for making your financial reports more engaging. Close the books and issue financial reports each month.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 22, 2023

They spend a lot of time transferring that data between systems, which means they’re only able to collect the bare minimum. Manually moving data from one place to another also makes them more susceptible to errors. All this information is “chart-able.” It also makes it easier to manage things like reporting.

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Volunteer Practice Management Nonprofit 52

sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2023

By proactively working with your auditor, having consistent workflows that keep your data updated, and establishing clear expectations with your staff, you can make remote audits just another project on your list, instead of something to dread. Those people probably enjoy visiting the dentist and find reasons to go to the DMV as well.

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Review Fund Software Nonprofit 69

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Why does data matter to nonprofit organizations and what data matters? These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. Collecting and analyzing data can seem like a time consuming and daunting task that takes away from an organization’s day-to-day work fulfilling its mission.

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Analytics Data Analysis Chart 65

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000. Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 87

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Anyone responsible for grant management will agree that it can be exhausting to maintain, and takes much-needed time away from other obligations. Top Ten Reasons to Streamline Your Grant Cycle with Automated Processes. What does this mean when applied to the grant cycle? time and effort reporting). Reduce labor cost.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Process, clean, and transform data.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

First use this year’s revenue to establish a baseline for all your expected revenue, including but not limited to individual giving, major gifts, events income, expected pledges, and grants. Finance Director Government Grants INCREASE IMPACT Optimize grant management to ensure alignment with mission and efficient use of funds.

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Analysis Project Donor Retention 52

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Pull detailed, customizable reports. Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels.

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Advocacy Offline Gartner Nonprofit 88

sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a grantmaker in a digital world, gathering data seems to be the easy part. You have data on your grantees flowing into your grant management system (GMS) through applications and their updates. Your own historical data on grants awarded accumulates with every grant cycle.

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Chart Report Data Grant 76

Everyaction

JANUARY 31, 2018

FALL Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction Whether it's for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data. You can picture your data like never before within EveryAction. Check it out >> SUMMER.

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Tools Chart Grant PowerPoint 43

Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. From finding the right grants to writing and applying for them, grant proposals require a lot of research and attention to detail! What is a grant proposal?

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