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Just One Good Tip To Address Nonprofit Workload Stress

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Anne Grady, in an HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Planning and Implementation

Tech Soup

Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most nonprofit organizations. Close your eyes and imagine that promised land where you can produce reports by grant or program or by the combined entity as a whole. Bring samples of these reports.

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10 Tips for Mastering Your Grantmaking Dashboards

sgEngage

The dashboards on your grant management system give you a similar snapshot of your grantmaking programs. What Are Dashboards in Your Grant Management System? The dashboards act as the welcome screen in your grant management system. Are you going too fast? Is there enough air in your tires? Is it time for an oil change?

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5 Advantages of Grants Management Software

sgEngage

The person who coined the term “cat herding” may have been a grants manager. 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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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . Ami McReynolds. Chief Equity and Programs Officer. Feeding America. Bernard Mauricia.

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Your Guide to Hiring Staff for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Solid books and numbers make everything easier, especially when you’re ready to go after grants. Draw it out into an organizational chart so you can see who will report to who. It might be hard to look at these figures and to wrap your brain around how much money you need to raise to employ the staff you need. 20% a year?

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