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Don’t Jeopardize Your Nonprofit Compliance with a Commercial Accounting System?

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When your accounting system is not built to handle restricted funding , each report can feel like a fire drill. If your organization receives at least some of its funding from grants, you need a fund accounting system with subfund accounting capabilities built to handle nonprofit accounting standards.

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Need a New Grant Management System? 5 Tips for Selecting the Best GMS for Your Foundation

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If it’s time for you to start looking for a new grant management system, use this opportunity to evaluate your processes, figure out what needs to change, and find a solution that can growth with your organization. This includes reviewing your process documentation or creating it if necessary. What reports do you pull regularly?

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Get Your CRM System to Become the Best Version of Itself

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Organizations that use a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system will typically rely on it everyday. The documentation of these details is essential for an organization to move forward with goals and maintain existing relationships with supporters. The health of the CRM system needs to be prioritized. Go ahead and add.

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Best Practices for a Stress-Free Fund Accounting System Implementation

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Implementing a robust and modern fund accounting system can save your team time, make reporting faster, and give you more opportunity to focus on impactful work. But introducing a new fund accounting system can be a sizable undertaking—even when you know it will be worth it. Mindset matters. Understanding the Timeline.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

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Ensure your team has a standard procedure for identifying any requests and activities within your system that are still assigned to departing team members. Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual. When a new person comes on, it’s a good time to understand exactly what access they need.

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Accessibility Goals: Moving Past Compliance

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It can be uncomfortable to admit, but many web designers, myself included, first learned about digital accessibility as a regulation. How do we budget for required accessibility ? Perhaps the dramatic changes to work and home life brought on by the pandemic sparked a greater understanding of accessibility. We can’t connect.

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The Future of Funding: Nonprofit Grant Management Software Trends

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Organizations spent hours sorting through documents, filling out forms, and ensuring they followed all the grant requirements. You can use features like forums, messaging, and document sharing to talk to grantors, team members, and other people involved in the grant process.

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