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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

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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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports

BoardAssist

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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7th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Report: A Closer Look (Staffing Levels)

NTEN

Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology. You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research.

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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

Question: This question was recently posed to the ASU Lodestar Center’s “Ask a Nonprofit Specialist”: Every time the financial report is made at my organization’s Board meeting, the members seem to either fixate on a number that is not especially meaningful or the opposite: their eyes glaze over in boredom. What do you suggest?

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11 Outstanding Nonprofit Reports You Should Read

Care2

Thankfully, you can take advantage of great in-depth research and findings published in nonprofit reports. Here 11 nonprofit reports that are worth a look when you want to brush up on everything from nonprofit social media adoption, staffing, fundraising, and online engagement best practices. Organizations have an average 3.5

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money. What do they click on?

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, here's a comparison between last year and this year and another opportunity to consider improvements. It is not useful to know how many posts you write on a monthly, weekly or daily basis or the number of the words for comparisons either. Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 Technorati ???Authority??? Authority??? Cost (what!).