Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This is the second blog in my series on configuring Intuit's QuickBooks for use in a nonprofit organization. Some of the main goals of the implementation meeting are to produce a consensus on the definition of: The chart of accounts. Funding sources (who funds your organization and what are their reporting requirements?).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

The Blackbaud Index provides the most up-to-date information on charitable giving today. Here’s a brief overview of some of these updates: Compare your fundraising performance: You can now easily compare and visualize your fundraising by entering in your fundraising revenue to the interactive chart. Overall Fundraising Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Subject Area: View the distribution of a specific organization’s funding by subject areas, including an “and/or” search function. Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). Journalism News and Information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The NTEN Book Club, organized by Lauren McKown and Kai Williams, hosted a video chat this week.This month they have been reading The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout and discussing it in the NTEN online community. Workplace Productivity and Well Being .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

One hundred percent of what guests pay goes directly to your organization. Office 2013 Fundamentals Online Learning for End Users. Information Security Essentials Online Learning for IT Administrators and End Users. For more information, see. Beyond the Pie Chart: When to Use a Bar Chart or Line Chart.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization. Only within the last decade has research on the efficacy of evaluating the effects of art on audiences been realized (Brown & Novak, 2013). July, 2013).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. At SXSW, I did a workshop with Carie Lewis and David Neff who assessed their organization’s measurement practices along the Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly continuum. Click to See Larger Version.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 12, 2014

First, we do not use the term “nonprofit organization”; we use “civil society organization” or “non-governmental organization” instead. According to the Charities Aid Foundation''s (CAF) Global Giving Index 2013, the U.S. For example, there are not as many organizations in Turkey as there are in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is back and there are some great prizes in store for organizations with the most creative, compelling, and entertaining stories. SlideRocket : Use SlideRocket to organize photos into captivating slideshows. You can also use Visio 2013 to make dynamic diagrams and charts for your story.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The very first step in installing and implementing QuickBooks for your nonprofit organization has nothing to do with software or computers and everything to do with communication and understanding - and the good news is "communication and understanding" are normally among a nonprofit's strengths. Bring samples of these reports.

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Capital campaigns are among the biggest fundraising undertakings that nonprofit organizations tackle, and they only come around roughly once a decade. What are the key pitfalls to avoid when planning a capital campaign , especially if it’s your organization’s first? You’ll assess six key areas of your organization.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Interally, we have a new organizational chart (if you can call it that! that better reflects the multidirectional relationships across the organization, including both program and support relationships. After a year of work, the Collected Voices: Data-Informed Nonprofits report is here! We call it the "rain drops".)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

At the Germana Gale Health Post, I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases, and other health data plastered to walls. All this information goes into a government information system to generate regular reports. A decade ago, there was no official record of a child’s birth or death in rural Ethiopia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.” Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. The skills are out there.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Capacity building is not a one-time effort to improve short-term effectiveness, but a continuous improvement strategy toward the creation of a sustainable and effective organization” (National Council of Nonprofits, 2017). For many organizations, capacity building would fall into the “overhead” category.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Think about the last strategy meeting you were a part of: What information was distributed beforehand? What charts or slides did the group focus on? They are charged with making the digital numbers go up, but they are never put in a position to help the broader organization listen to the data.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2013

When was the last time you had to look up a donor's contact information while you were away from your desk? Mobile CRM apps can help you stay organized and track potential donors while you're at a fundraising event, on the road, or networking at a conference. Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Mobile. TechSoup Donor Partners.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

We are 20 years into this online giving adventure and there is still a tremendous amount of up-side for nonprofit organizations. It’s in our org charts. Studies done by Dunham+Company in both 2013 and 2018 reveal that even many leading nonprofit organizations have struggled to implement common best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants took the “Columbia Leadership Styles” diagnostic created by Paul Ingram and Bruce Craven in 2013 that session leader Jeffrey Golde had customized for arts leaders. The five different styles included: Educator, Creator, Visionary, Organizer, and Creator.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It may be time to look for a purpose-built fund accounting system when you begin managing a variety of different funds and restrictions, when you have trouble getting a financial picture of your entire organization, or when you need to expand your internal controls past the functionality of your current system. Flexible chart of accounts.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. There’s a ton of information on all this, but I still like Time Magazine’s now ancient 2012 article, Your Life Is Fully Mobile , which is part of their larger Mobile Tech Special Edition.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Every dollar helps.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As part of 14LCS, we at NTEN were excited to recognize a few individuals and organizations who have gone above and beyond to push the limits, redefine the way we approach social impact, and help chart a course for all of us to follow. Jim Nickerson of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) was this year’s obvious choice.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information. 35 The Open Food Network, an international platform cooperative, has a focus on helping local farmers connect to customers with sales of their organic harvest. Airbnb has an app for that. 9</sup).

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