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Beyond the Audit: 6 Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm

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The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor. Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles.

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The One Record Myth in K–12 School Software

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Blackbaud gives us role-based access control to assign credentials throughout the platform, so someone with full access in enrollment may only have view access in tuition management or fundraising. We still needed to create a consistent policy or practice for sharing data throughout the school. We took two steps: 1.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

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Be sure to save those query results so they can be reused, or even use an export tool if you need to share it with other users. Some solutions like Blackbaud Grantmaking even have a batch update tool that enables users to make global changes to a group of records.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. They know they can’t really share everything that happens behind the curtain (and believe me, there is so much that never reaches beyond the walls of most organizations) because they will risk the loss of funding.

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If You're Part of the Cream, You're Gonna Get Licked

NTEN

" Often, she sees senior managers and people at the bottom of the org chart pushing for openness, meeting resistance at that middle manager level - the cream of the Oreo. Tags: Change Management charlene li Leadership NPTech open leadership Social Media. They get licked. Complete the NTEN openness audit.

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What do Innovative Organizations Have in Common?

NTEN

Organizations that innovate have that one person, be it CEO, middle manager or bottom of the org chart, who is willing to stand up, declare the need for change, and then "put on a show" about it until people fall in line to follow. Let me know in a comment, or share your two cents in the Facebook discussion.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, the game is licensed under creative commons - which means folks are welcomed to use as long as share and share like (with attribution). EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked! .