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Responsive Philanthropy: How to Address Community Needs in Time of Crisis

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The team consolidated databases of both organizations and migrated the data to Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT and Raiser’s Edge NXT. Throughout a two-year project with Blackbaud, the Parkinson’s Foundation made gradual improvements to increase the engagement and experience of the organization’s 2.6 Find the Tools to Maintain Momentum.

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Creating Financial Transparency with Your IRS 990 Series (and Maintaining Tax Compliance)

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Pull these reports for the quarterly board meeting. With an ever-changing landscape of fundraising, economic conditions, and tactics for expanding mission-related programming, finding time for IRS tax reporting and filing 990 Series returns can be beyond challenging. And then there is your annual IRS 990 series filing deadline.

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Recession-Proofing Is Just the Beginning: Building a Savvy Strategy for the Future

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In the recent report from the Blackbaud Institute, Philanthropy Through Recession: How Savvy Organizations Weather Uncertain Times , the data shows that the sector has remained relatively strong throughout. Internally, there is no better time to take a critical look at your organizational structure.

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Responsive Philanthropy: How to Address Community Needs in Time of Crisis

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The team consolidated databases of both organizations and migrated the data to Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT and Raiser’s Edge NXT. Throughout a two-year project with Blackbaud, the Parkinson’s Foundation made gradual improvements to increase the engagement and experience of the organization’s 2.6 million constituents.

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Don’t Get Lost in Translation: What Finance Needs from the Development System

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Nonprofit financial reporting is the responsibility of the finance team. But in a fundraising organization, Finance is heavily dependent on Development systems to furnish accurate, unambiguous fundraising data to the general ledger, so that correct annual and monthly financial reporting can be produced. funds or property donated).

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Fundraiser Burnout? Try Automation to Boost Both Efficiency and Employee Morale

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So much of a fundraiser’s day is tracking, reporting, researching, and analyzing. Operate More Efficiently Gartner projects that 70% of organizations will implement structured automation by 2025. Collaborate with other users : There is a generous community of experienced citizen developers who love to share tips—you can ask anything.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.