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

Candid

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. 2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Setting Up the Chart of Accounts

Tech Soup

See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. Some of the main goals of the implementation meeting are to produce a consensus on the definition of: The chart of accounts. Building Your Chart of Accounts. So What Exactly Is a Chart of Accounts? See [link] for a similar definition.)

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Research Friday Board Engagement: Thinking Beyond the Wallet

ASU Lodestar Center

Angela Francis , Senior Associate. The following chart shows the collective response from 3,915 nonprofit managers. According to our sampling, 34 percent of nonprofit boards make the “right amount” of donations and a mere 24 percent are willing to leverage their relationships to directly solicit funds for the organization.

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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

Here are a few ways you can take advantage of Google Alerts: Be sure to set up alerts for your organization name, project or program names, and key staff people (any one that may be quoted or referenced in association with your work). Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you.

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Your Guide to Hiring Staff for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Draw it out into an organizational chart so you can see who will report to who. Write a job description that will attract candidates with a range of skills that your organization needs and the willingness to develop any associated skills they might be lacking. The National Council of Nonprofits offers this sample employee handbook.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API.

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

ASU Lodestar Center

1 This study, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector (PDF) , "engaged a random sample of primarily human service nonprofits, as well as health, civic, environmental, arts, and education nonprofits." 2 Again, the study surveyed nonprofit financial managers such as CEOs and CFOs.