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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

The Statement of Activities—commonly referred to as an SOA—is one of four essential financial statements for nonprofit organizations. 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.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The SWOT analysis, which typically begins a planning process, makes you a prisoner of that crowded environment. But that’s where the comparisons to Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey end. We focus on activities that support professional expertise over time. Move Beyond SWOT Sharon explains the book’s premise like this.

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Google Analytics and Benchmarks: HAWK

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UA used “cookie-based” tracking that allowed the platform to record web activity on the site during a user’s session on the site. Even comparing Total Users from UA to GA4 is not an apples-to-apples comparison since the method Google Analytics uses to track users changed from UA to GA4. Ok, back with us? Give it a read here !

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Is Your Nonprofit Half Way to Your 2020 Fundraising Goal$?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This solicitation analysis report is a great report to showcase your ROI as it takes into account how many people were solicited, associated expenses, and the amount raised through the effort. So after more analysis, if you’ve determined you have a higher ROI than you thought, it may balance out if you have a low dependency quotient.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

In comparison, organizations in the District of Columbia and Wisconsin, which secured the second and third most funding, only received $75 million and $35 million respectively. We then reviewed the largest 1,000 organizations by revenue size and verified them for accuracy for this analysis. Source: Foundation 1000.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Activating our values in 2022. In his four-part analysis, Robinson leveraged a combination of human-guided machine learning, clustering techniques, and corpus-based similarity analysis drawn from long standing semantic similarity and information retrieval research.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

Candid

We’ve included their recommendations below, along with examples from the 2019 analysis of donors who use these tactics. . This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis. Nonprofits need support to engage in activities that influence disaster-related policies. Candid makes it easy to share your data.