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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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This walkthrough isn’t just a cautionary tale—it’s a roadmap to ensuring your financial narrative remains clear, accurate, and reflective of your nonprofit’s integrity and mission. Financial statements must reflect the true nature of resources available. Let’s dive in! 5 Mistakes to Avoid 1.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need a Website Revamp? How to Tell

Top Nonprofits

Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand. Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand. Your organization’s logo is the visual summary of your organization’s brand. For instance, large text should have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio. Your site doesn’t engage your audience. Your website isn’t mobile responsive.

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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

An organization’s budget, financial statements and summary reports to Boards of Directors should all do the following: Set expectations (budget and/or prior year experience, plus acceptable variations to. Focus Attention on Critical Factors by Using Ratios, Dashboards and Other Strategies.

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7 Ways to Get More Out of Your Online Fundraising Platform

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Make sure your online donation form reflects your branding. When you make your online donation form recurring gift-friendly, be sure to modify gift amounts to reflect that they’re for recurring gifts. These gifts often come from a donor’s employer and match their donation on a 1:1 ratio.

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A Lesson on Budgeting from the Blackbaud Management Team

Connection Cafe

Here’s the seminar’s summary: Budgets are the last phase of a longer strategic journey. If you missed it, be sure to take some time to watch the presentation! Budgets are, or should be, more than a record of “what we think we’ll earn, and what we think we’ll spend”.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? Sending a short summary of progress made and any issues or challenges ahead of a meeting.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.),