Nimble AMS

JANUARY 15, 2024

Read our blog to discover three ways ASSH increased trust in their organization. Nimble AMS also recognizes the value of trust and has ensured that it’s built into our membership processes and association management tools. This research impacts how Nimble AMS tailors its approach to member management tools and processes.

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sgEngage

MAY 15, 2024

The goal was to become better grantmakers by completing a review of our practices, processes and forms. This was a year-long project that required CDP to closely examine our processes and have bold conversations about how we wanted our grantmaking to look. We incorporated learnings and feedback from grantee partners.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

The low-code, no-code revolution has made it possible for anyone at your organization to create software applications without all the extra overhead of traditional software development. Your “low-coders” or “citizen developers” can use technology to optimize the unique business processes they already know intimately.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Fund accounting systems with grant management can help you from beginning to end if you are a grant-funded organization—or want to be. Here are three ways that your fund accounting system can support your grant management needs. The more manual data entry you do, the more errors can creep into your accounting system.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Your online giving form is the primary instrument you use to process a donation, and it’s also the key tool you use for collecting valuable information about your donors. It’s in the nuanced application of behavioral science, based in part on Daniel Kahneman’s Theory “Thinking Fast and Slow.”

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid—commonly known as FAFSA®—is the form current and prospective college and career school students must fill out each year to qualify for federal financial aid, whether that be in the form of grants, loans, or work-study funds. In 2020, the U.S. What is the Better FAFSA?

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

But if anything is certain, this and other AI systems are only going to get better, and quickly. While it’s still very rough, I can see artificial intelligence providing a variety of possibilities to streamline our processes and improve outcomes. On its face, this seems at best a pleasant distraction, or maybe just a waste of time.

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sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2024

To mitigate risk throughout your grant cycle, you need to know your grantees through relationships and documentation, support their internal controls, and set up a process for whistleblower complaints. Depending on how your application is set up, you can add an open-ended question or discuss it during a follow-up conversation.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule. This document will help new team members absorb your unique grantmaking process and keep everyone on the same page.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

With careful planning, agile processes, and responsiveness in your grantmaking process of giving can help you react in a more thoughtful way. By following these five best practices, you’ll create a more efficient healthcare grantmaking process where you can anticipate evolving community needs and be more agile in your funding.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2023

It can also alleviate manual processes for institutional stakeholders, improve communications, ensure data security, and provide insights into funds and disbursements. A good award management system benefits both students and administrators. There are three steps to consider. What does this mean for scholarships?

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

And that work can come in a variety of forms: work by your grantee to fill out long applications with questions about programs, finances, staff, sustainability, and internal controls that get read and then filed. It also helps them stay focused, instead of having to manage new funding applications each year. Trust must be earned.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Reviewing Internal Processes for Equity The first place to start is internally with your organization’s operations. If you aren’t seeing a diverse set of applicants, is there something in the way the job description is written or the places where it is advertised that should be reconsidered?

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Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

PEAK Grantmaking’s “Reimagining Philanthropy” conference in March exploring these themes was a fitting setting for a session Candid organized about advancing systems change via data collaboration at scale. The panelists also agreed that nonprofits are motivated to provide the data when they know how funders are using it.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Tip 2: Bring both your program and finance teams into the grant application and award process. Instead of just asking for information, make sure everyone is aware of why you are applying for a grant, what the budget restraints are, and the process for tracking spend. Document any processes you don’t already have highlighted.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

If you’re like most enterprise level associations, you likely have an in-depth process to get executive approval for any technology investments. Make the process smoother by creating a culture of change management and following these five steps: 1. Is your organization considering a new software purchase? How much will it cost?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Reviewing scholarship applications can be one of the most complicated processes to manage during scholarship season. Reviewers are a critical piece to the award cycle, and scholarship administrators are dependent on them to complete the rest of the scholarship process. Did they have too many applications to review?

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. Data formats vary widely, making consolidation and analysis a time-consuming and error-prone process. Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit firms have now, however, transitioned to long-term partners, particularly for nonprofits contemplating transformative system or operational changes. Nonprofits would sometimes modify or overhaul their systems and controls without engaging their auditors.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When your nonprofit is looking to change its financial system, it would be nice to have a crystal ball. How does your system manage restricted funds? A true fund accounting system simplifies restricted funds, making it easier to track and report on government grants, endowments, and specific donor requests.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

What Business Application Training Accomplishes. ” Well, I am more than happy to relay it here: when you call and you reach someone’s voicemail and are in the process of leaving a callback number. In corporate training programs, often the focus is strictly on compliance. Well, I am here to tell you that there indeed is.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Analyze Your Systems Audit your current data systems for security, continuity of use, and capabilities. You will want to account for infrastructure, physical and cloud storage, applications, encryption, and authentication procedures. Stay Informed and Curious Adopting a new data governance system is not a one-time process.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

APIs and the Art of the Possible (Panel) Panelists include Nick Marchese of Emma Willard School, Shandor Simon of Beaver Country Day School, and Stephen Boyle of Blackbaud The power of APIs lies in their ability to seamlessly connect disparate systems, unlock data silos, and facilitate the exchange of information in real-time.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In service of this, in this blog, we’re highlighting five things we’ve heard about our grants data that aren’t quite accurate. When applicable, this information is included in Candid’s data sets. Candid has been a pioneer of using AI and machine learning to scale up the amount of data we can process. Other public information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This article delves into the intricate process of crafting a nonprofit digital strategy, harnessing the capabilities of ChatGPT , while closely aligning with The International Social Impact Institute ® ‘s (The ISII) Digital Strategy Framework. With ChatGPT’s analytical prowess, the process can be augmented.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

During the Type 1 audit, businesses are evaluated on their hiring and data management systems, and the SOC 2 auditors determine if their design meets the trust principles. In Type 2, the continued effectiveness of those systems is checked. . There are two parts of the SOC 2 Certification, Type 1 and Type 2.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

Grant management is the comprehensive process of overseeing all activities related to grants: from identifying recipients, to awarding funds, to reporting on outcomes all while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Award Closeout The award closeout is the final stage of the grant management process.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Specifically, this issue is relevant for the nonprofit healthcare industry, which generates nearly 19 terabytes of clinical data each year and must leverage that data within their current decision-making processes. It can be tempting to update these databases separately as your staffing, systems, and operational processes evolve.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It can also alleviate manual processes for institutional stakeholders, improve communications, ensure data security, and provide insights into funds and disbursements. A good award management system benefits both students and administrators. There are three steps to consider. What does this mean for scholarships?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The application process is an organization’s first real look at how you work with grantees. A 10-page application doesn’t make sense—for the applicant or the reviewer—but you need enough information to know if you are making a good decision. Creating a Successful Grant Proposal Evaluation Process. Detailed Budget.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to understand the impact that AI systems may have on workers’ physical health and encourage an active, not sedentary workplace. Priority should be given to retaining and emphasizing human characteristics in decision making processes and evaluations. . Think standing desks, ergonomics, and walking meetings) .

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

For more on how to incorporate wellness best practices into your grantmaking organization, check out our blog post, “ Workplace Wellness for Grantmakers and the Nonprofits They Support. ” 2. For more ideas on how to build trust with your grantees, check out our blog post, “ Achieving Lasting Impact Through Trust-Based Philanthropy.”

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

These scenarios happen all the time and can be incredibly frustrating for IT managers, especially when your current tech stack already has a similar tool—which the colleague has forgotten about or never completed training on—or the suggested software cannot integrate properly with your other systems. Keep data security top of mind.

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

As these technologies mature, so do their applications. In this blog, I will first explain how Candid currently harnesses the power of AI technologies in our data and tools. Here are just a few ways we leverage AI and machine learning in many of Candid’s current products and data enhancement processes.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

We believe that technology systems intended to be used in fragile environments must be “protective by design,” and seek from the outset to minimize the risk of harm. The first step is to clearly understand why the system, application, or data collection ought to exist in the first place. Learn more.

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