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. What are the next steps?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

The Blackbaud Index provides the most up-to-date information on charitable giving today. Tracking approximately $11 billion in US-based charitable giving, the Index is updated on the first of each month and is based on year-over-year percent changes. Improvements to the Blackbaud Index. Overall Fundraising Trends.

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sgEngage

MAY 19, 2023

Using a fund accounting system with a segmented chart of accounts requires fewer clicks and selections to track an expense, which reduces the potential for errors and helps to ensure your data integrity. Dimensional, also called table-based, tracks each element in your chart of accounts separately.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2017

For traditional events like walks, event participation and total funds raised follow an exponential growth curve when tracked over time. Predictive Model for Funds Raised & # of Participants based on # of days out from the event. of funds raised. Predictive Modeling for Fundraising Events. Days until the Event. %

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Are your programs on track? In their 2023 bbcon session , Blackbaud University instructors Chrissy Haskell and Henry Wiencek walked attendees through their favorite dashboard functionality. The dashboard parts enable you to try different chart types so you can find the best fit for your role and how you like to review data.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your food bank needs accounting software that can help you manage a variety of funding sources while also helping you make strategic, data-driven decisions based on inventory and forecasted community demand. Provide clear stewardship for restricted funds. Improve transparency by communicating the status of your restricted fund balance.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

If you were one of the foundation professionals who joined us this year in Nashville, you are hopefully well into your planning for how to put some of what you learned to use; I’m also hoping you enjoy this little refresher on what I consider to be some of the finer takeaways from our foundations track. l everage the results.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

TechSoup has a number of donated products that are available to churches to manage donors, accounting, and donation tracking and reporting, so you can go high tech with your collection plate. Here are some accounting software options that can keep track of donations and all your church's other finances. Communications.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Or that your team has to jump through hoops just to run a Statement of Activities that considers fund restrictions. Fund accounting software provides government agencies with the organization they need to track hundreds of funds while also establishing the internal controls and transparency required when stewarding constituent money.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5% It’s in our org charts. Can you read a chart? Time is up.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The rise of Donor Advised Funds. Some of these topics are relatively new and still emerging ( people fundraising for you ), others seem to be exploding (Donor Advised Funds) and some have already passed a lot of nonprofits by and are here to stay (like how we use the mobile phone). Today was insightful for our Raiser’s Edge customers.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

From applications to reviews to reporting, there are a lot of moving parts to a funding program. Whether your grantmaking organization is managing one funding program or a dozen, the right grants management software can save you time and improve compliance through streamlined processes, intuitive reporting, and built-in due diligence.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Is our board on track for the public phase? As key funding commitments are received, members should gain increased confidence in the campaign and feel like key players on the team. By now, you should have a defined gift range chart to demonstrate the impact of various giving levels. How can we get our board more involved?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Constituent relationship management (CRM) tools can help you keep track of donors as well as your organization's other constituents. If you only need a donor management solution, be sure to check out our donor management comparison chart so you can pick the best tool for your organization. Donor Management Tools.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

And like a personal guide, they keep us on track when it’s inevitable that we’ll get lost in the day to day, hustle and bustle, and demands of our jobs. Beth Kanter provides simple, yet super helpful advice on how your organization can keep track of aha moments, lessons, ideas, mistakes and experiences during events.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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