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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Without that, the SOA can misrepresent the financial health of the organization and lead to future funding issues. Often, this leads to large audit adjustments, budget vs actual reporting difficulties, and other funding challenges. Broadly grouped expenses or revenues can obscure the allocation of funds across different programs.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

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2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. We adopted more automation in the loading, cleaning, and coding of data. Analysis tip: Researchers will want to exclude federal grants if they are conducting analyses about foundation funding.

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6 Tips For CRM Budget Planning

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Technology is something nonprofits want and often need, but typically aren’t prepared to adopt the latest and greatest with their budget. Adopting any new tech, in order to be successful with it, requires training, budget planning, and some supervision in the early days of implementation. Image courtesy of CauseView. Plan early.

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

Candid

Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent). Over the past two years, philanthropy has asked important questions about equitable access—access to adequate funding, access to digital tools, access to power. Publish the mapping publicly to incentivize adoption by product providers and grantmakers who may have custom solutions.

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

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Once consumed, the data can be used to build statistical analyses , make comparisons, and draw conclusions, all without ever needing to speak with anyone from the foundation. Who’s Funding What and Where, and Who Benefits? Compared to the clunky image files, this means it can be consumed much more efficiently at scale.

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The Why and the How of Updating Your Nonprofit Bylaws

Get Fully Funded

When does the Board adopt an annual budget? If you think your current bylaws are seriously lacking, ask peer organizations to share their bylaws for comparison. Note on the new bylaws the date in which they were adopted. The post The Why and the How of Updating Your Nonprofit Bylaws appeared first on Get Fully Funded.

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Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” ” I often used [.]