sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

In recent years, relationships between nonprofit organizations and their auditors have seen positive change. Your auditor’s year-end work will remain critical to ensure the financial integrity of your nonprofit’s books and records and compliance with ever-changing regulations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. People change if things are appealing and inspiring to them.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

That’s why it is vital to make sure your team is prepared for the change and ready to identify the improvements that will increase your community health center’s efficiency and accountability. It will help you envision the ease of an optimized structure for your chart of accounts and the business rules that will be most beneficial.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

Recognizing the need for change is easy. All of this is change. The actual process of changing takes true leadership, whether in our personal or professional lives. The phrases “Well, this is how we have always done it” or “no system is perfect” were common refrains. This needed to stop and in short order.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Fonteva Implementation and Managed Services Maximize your Salesforce investment and make it easier to manage membership experience with Fonteva AMS implementation and full life cycle managed services. Fonteva is the leading Association Management System (AMS) for the Salesforce platform. What is Fonteva?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Review requirements before applying for or accepting awards to ensure that you understand what is necessary to effectively manage the grant and if the grant lifecycle is a good fit for your organization. In managing grant funding , communication is key. Adopt a robust fund accounting system. Lead the change.

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Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

” by Randy Bean – published February 5th, 2021 According to Harvard Business Review, thriving as a mainstream organization today means being data driven. In this latest survey, 29% reported achieving “transformational business outcomes” during the past year – so what is holding the others back?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thus, our business office could budget further in advance and our administrative team spent less time tracking down contracts. Our registrar must issue addendums when families add, remove, or change support services. Our business office has to re-enroll students in the tuition management system.

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sgEngage

MAY 14, 2024

The Goal of Your Finances The goal of a for-profit organization is to drive revenue for the business. To do this, you need an accounting system that can hold this information on a unique record, not as part of an account string. This isn’t the case with nonprofit organizations. There are no shareholders.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We knew that there was information in one part of the system that could be very useful for another team. Still, we did not want, for example, an enrollment clerk to be able to change information upon which a business officer relied. We were able to pull everything into one integrated system under one team.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 30, 2024

Heller Consulting, launched 1996 and headquartered in Bay Area of California, touts expertise in systems design and implementation and will be added to RKD Group’s existing fundraising and marketing solutions. Managers at many nonprofits rely on their vendor partners to handle data. We have to extend the conversation beyond data.

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

This conversation should go beyond the immediate technological needs and address long-term organizational goals, the shifting business and technology landscape, the plans in place to meet them, and any barriers, both tech-centric and not, that may be standing in your way. Let’s unpack what those look like and how to navigate them.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

To manage your stakeholders’ expectations, consider adopting a culture of change management at your association. Help stakeholders embrace the likelihood of change during your AMS project by creating a communication timeline to share news promptly. Be open-minded to change.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Change is scary. Change is hard. Change is inevitable. That’s where change management comes in. By implementing a change management strategy that’s geared towards their specific circumstances, nonprofits can help their staff members adopt new systems quickly and effectively.

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

What does this mean for nonprofit advocacy, communications, engagement, donations, program delivery, site design and system infrastructure? NTEN''s publication, designed especially for busy nonprofit executive directors, departmental directors, boards, and other leadership staff, is free and hot off the press.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If If you are ready to embrace change as a central element of your growth strategy, this book is for you.” Homkes’ book is a timely, comprehensive, and essential read for business leaders looking to take the next step toward ensuring high growth for their companies.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 8, 2024

Pritcher said the acquisition of Heller Group changes that dynamic. The nonprofit needs to own and manage their own data for the trust we want to build with donors of the future,” he said. A big part of what Heller does is use systems more efficiently,” said Appell. “Our We have to extend the conversation beyond data.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The bbcon 2023 agenda is full of great sessions for finance professionals serving nonprofits, schools, foundations, healthcare, and cultural organizations, from creating better systems to extending what you currently do with Blackbaud’s fund accounting software, Financial Edge NXT.

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Forum One

AUGUST 10, 2021

Digital transformation or modernization for government agencies is about using new technologies to effectively change an agency’s ability to engage audiences and achieve its mission. Though digital tools and systems play a big role in this transformation, it’s about more than just the tools. Define your goals. Assemble the roadmap.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2024

Recognize What’s Not Serving You When you are busy, it’s easy to follow inertia down the path of the-way-it’s-always-done. But that is a surface-level change. What workflows stay, does this process serve us, is the data we’re about to input the data we want in the new system? Bring in recommended and vetted help.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

However, as the nonprofit landscape continues to evolve, these roles must also adapt to meet the changing needs and challenges faced by organizations today. The Builder CFO takes pride in many strategic, analytical, transactional, and systems contributions, but three areas are most relevant to mission success.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

My experience since I started working in the social media field is that the failures are where you learn the most as a community manager, a social media manger, a change manger, a professional and as a person. Leaders often blame change managers or teams who do not control the source or circumstances which cause the “failure.”

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

Changing technology, especially that as important as your constituent relationship manager (CRM), is a decision that should be vetted, following significant deliberation between your leadership, technology, fundraising, programs, and any team impacted by the switch, accompanied by a considered effort to ready your data for migration.

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2012

Business Intelligence tools, or "BI" tools, take the dashboard idea to the next level. There are a number of ways to create dashboards, including using such common tools such as Excel or Access, or proprietary systems embedded in databases. Patrick Yurgosky. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

This tool is a game-changer in elevating the advancement, recruitment and admissions, student success, communication, and other critical business capabilities of your institution. Just like any technology, realizing success on the Salesforce platform takes careful maintenance, dedication to change management, and intentional roadmap planning.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If you still have not enforced MFA in your organization, you can refer to the Multi-Factor Authentication Assistant to help with the rollout planning and change management. Make changes to multiple lines of data, and then save all changes with one click without rerunning your report!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The way we think about experience has changed. Value chains have changed. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. And even change management is changing as well. And even change management is changing as well.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities.

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

If you are still hosting the data and applications that you’re using to run your core operations and development efforts—from your accounting software to your donor relationship management and fundraising systems—on premises, you are not setting your future organization up for success. Their business models depend on this.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A long time Salesforce customer, they made the switch from a legacy system and used Salesforce to build the Justice Data Solution. The new system allows them to visualize their logic model in action across programs in 24 offices in 14 countries. Technology is the accelerator that allows IJM to do that at scale.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Selecting the right Content Management System (CMS) for your nonprofit website is crucial in building and managing a successful online presence. Business Considerations: Elements like budget, licensing type, training needs, and change management are also essential considerations in CMS selection.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

How is the perceived value of a college degree changing? While studies show that workers with bachelor’s degrees have higher lifetime earnings and lower poverty rates than those without, technology has changed the workforce. At a time when as many as one in three bachelor’s degree recipients in the U.S. What makes you stand out?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

And, because everyone loves change and learning new technology, you aren’t anticipating any challenges when communicating this decision or providing training to impacted teams across campus. LMS; p roject management and ticketing system ; online training, screen capture and recording software?) YEAH RIGHT ! .

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In the introduction to the Change Management Strategies Series I mention three major factors effecting change. These include an organized implementation plan, communication, and management buy-in. This blog will focus on management buy-in. See Also: Change Management Strategies for LMS Implementation.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Too often, amateur accidental techies -- nonprofit staffers who have taught themselves technology skills -- find themselves in over their heads trying to develop databases, but forgetting to do business process modeling or change management. Every once in awhile, serendipity struck.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. The good news is that the myth that you can't make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

Departments do not work in silos, systems, policies, and work processes support this. Evaluates current processes and systems on a regular basis and updates them as needed on an incremental basis. How do you change? Tags: change management. Organizational leaders are curious, not scared by social media.

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