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From Data Deluge to Impactful Decisions: Mastering Data in Grantmaking

sgEngage

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. Strong data governance and data management can help grantmakers navigate the overwhelming amount of information available. Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information.

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Mastering Next Year’s Budget With Revenue Projections and Donor Attrition Analysis

Neon CRM

Understanding Revenue Projections When a nonprofit is putting together a budget for the coming year, an important step is to perform a revenue projections analysis that can inform the expected amount of income used for operational expenses and deepen mission impact.

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Creating the Foundation for a Best-In-Class Nonprofit Finance Team

sgEngage

They should be well-versed in financial reports and analysis, but also be able to explain complex financial concepts to board members without a financial background. They should be confident in providing variance analysis and a variety of financial reports to help with risk management and forecasting.

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Blackbaud Discontinued Crystal Reports – Now What?

Cloud 4 Good

Blackbaud recently announced the end of support of a few applications hosted in their Citrix environments, including Crystal Reports (CT). It is available inside your CRM as shown in the image above of Tableau CRM or as a standalone application that allows you to bring data from multiple data sources as shown in the example below. .

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Foundation giving and payout: what changed in 2021?

Candid

Here are some highlights from what we learned, followed by more in-depth analysis: . We had a large influx of government funding in 2020 and 2021, which we granted out in those years. We are paying attention to issues of equity and social justice; participatory grantmaking; and streamlining applications and reporting.” . “We

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Why the new revenue recognition and nonprofit standards are significant for nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

Many nonprofit entities have contracts with government agencies that request the performance of specific services and are paid by the government for those services. Often time these transactions occur when government agencies elect to outsource certain services. Let’s stick with the government agency example.

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3 Strategies To Elevate Your Association’s Impact in the New Year

Association Analytics

As we move into the new year, all this takes is a commitment to each other to make a fresh start when it comes to data governance and data quality. You’re probably already asking for this data on your application forms, in surveys and during event registration. This is considered an explicit data collection method.

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