sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Your data tells you who is supporting your mission and offers insights into how, when, and even why they choose to give. No matter the scale of your organization, an effective data governance framework is necessary to communicate your impact clearly to grantmakers and donors alike. Security should be the tie that binds them!

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

What is the impact of the problem? Resources What resources do you need to fully support the lifecycle of this project? Risks No change management undertaking is without its risks. Keep your charter as simple and direct as possible—succinctly conveying any essential details related to your change initiative.

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Project Fund Software Help 89

Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

In addition, we will share several of our organization’s free educational and planning resources to support your efforts throughout this piece. In practice, this might mean considering where your nonprofit has a chance to grow, recognizing when ways of working need to adapt to changing conditions, or opting to rethink your mix of programs.

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San Francisco Nonprofit Metrics Boston 98

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?

Service 52

Service Management System Tech 52

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. You want to collect the data you need to make informed decisions, support your grantees’ success, and demonstrate your impact. How are you using each piece of data you collect from your grantees?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When your nonprofit is looking to change its financial system, it would be nice to have a crystal ball. How does your system manage restricted funds? A true fund accounting system simplifies restricted funds, making it easier to track and report on government grants, endowments, and specific donor requests.

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Fund Question System Integration 81

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Ensure your team has a standard procedure for identifying any requests and activities within your system that are still assigned to departing team members. Provide “Goldilocks” Security Access Of course, when someone leaves your organization, you have a process to make sure they no longer have access to your system.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 74

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Support these policies with management tools that help you stay on track with requirements and deadlines throughout the entire grant lifecycle. Adopt a robust fund accounting system. Get a clear understanding of what capabilities you need in your accounting software to effectively manage grant funds.

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Grant Process Management Tips 91

Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

of mainstream companies report that they continue to struggle with cultural challenges relating to organizational alignment, business processes, change management, communication, people skill sets, and resistance or lack of understanding to enable change. In the 2021 survey, 92.2%

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. A nonprofit data warehouse is a centralized digital repository that nonprofits use to store, manage, and analyze their data. Segmentation is the process of grouping your supporters based on shared characteristics. Monitor program impact.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

As systems and processes are being re-written, it’s an ideal time to set new goals, experiment with different processes, and emerge stronger on the other side of your transition. This is the time to question how things have always been done and consider changes that will expand your institution’s reach. Foster a self-service system.

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Change Management Change Management Tools 26

sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The social justice organization supported Black and Indigenous people through grantmaking with an annual budget between $2 million and $3 million. The pressure to respond when demand spikes in the communities you serve can be great—but these powerful opportunities to make an impact are the reason nonprofits exist. Inadequate Processes.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

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. Once they complete their enrollment contracts, information flows into our tuition management system and triggers the selected payment schedule.

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Student Policy Retention Education 72

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A hired vendor can very easily change your accounting software from QuickBooks to Intacct. The vendor can teach you how to pull all the data out of one system and put it into a new system, based on how you want the reports to look. Changing systems from QuickBooks to Intacct is not going to solve a “bad reporting” issue.

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

Of course, it’s important that the charity supports a cause that’s important to you. You want to know that 100% of your contribution is going toward supporting the mission you care about—which may include program costs, reasonable salaries, and adequate supplies.

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Tools Application Nonprofit Software 71

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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Open Source License Drupal Platform 52

sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

The actual process of changing takes true leadership, whether in our personal or professional lives. They are supported by approximately 50 faculty and staff. 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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Change Management Change Management Denver 78

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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Blackbaud Chart Denver Nonprofit 79

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 82

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. Change management: What is it?

Change Management 52

Change Management Change Management Nonprofit 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The social justice organization supported Black and Indigenous people through grantmaking with an annual budget between $2 million and $3 million. The pressure to respond when demand spikes in the communities you serve can be great—but these powerful opportunities to make an impact are the reason nonprofits exist.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Community Time Blackbaud 52

Forum One

MAY 6, 2021

How can you better serve your customers using a digital platform and how can that positively impact your agency or organization? The biggest advantage of digital modernization—by far—is that you can have a bigger impact. You can look to, and talk to, similar organizations about how they successfully streamlined systems.

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Government Digital Service System 49

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

These scenarios happen all the time and can be incredibly frustrating for IT managers, especially when your current tech stack already has a similar tool—which the colleague has forgotten about or never completed training on—or the suggested software cannot integrate properly with your other systems. What and who does it impact?

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Denver Software PowerPoint Template 77

Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s official: Blackbaud will shut down and cease all support for Luminate CRM (LCRM) on June 30, 2022. While this information might not come as a surprise, there is a clear path forward for your technology strategy as it relates to managing your constituents. You’ve decided NPSP is right for you.

Life 64

Life Test Nonprofit Data 64

sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

But if anything is certain, this and other AI systems are only going to get better, and quickly. This would be something I’d carefully consider before implementing, or at least test and monitor by ensuring the automated system is weeding out the same applications that you would. Perhaps this thing has a future after all!

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Grant Application Process Fund 76

sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2024

If your grantee is focused on incorporating community voice , for example, it’s important for you to know basic best practices so you can support that organization in their goal. What workflows stay, does this process serve us, is the data we’re about to input the data we want in the new system?

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Adopt Learning Organization Help 82

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Yes, we must steward our investments responsibly and ethically, but what is responsible and ethical about potentially wasting massive amounts of resources, using outdated problem-solving skills, and getting minimal impact for our efforts? First, funders love and expect to see fully explained “giant triangles of waste.”

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 74

Forum One

JULY 27, 2021

When it comes to fundraising, the more information you can gather about how, why and when your supporters choose (or choose not) to donate, the better you’ll be placed to improve how you implement your fundraising strategy. Choose open and extensible systems and platforms . Build stakeholder buy-in across your organization.

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Digital Tips Fundraising Evaluation 47

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

This level of economic uncertainty requires the kind of adaptive leadership and system-wide reckoning that feels like a daunting task until now. Authors Steve Zimmerman and Jeanne Bell have introduced a proven method for change management called matrix mapping. However, counseling also was considered a low-impact program.

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Map Profit Impact Literacy 28

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. No amount of information matters for equitable change if it is disconnected from relationships and social interaction.

Knowledge 67

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 67

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Through those transformational conversations with your community, you can ask how your organization can show up better and what support they actually need. You will never be able to move the needle systemically and make the changes you want to see in your community if you are not talking to the experts doing the work,” Marsha said.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

Let’s explore how these two factors impact higher education and the potential strategies institutions can adopt. How is the perceived value of a college degree changing? Declining enrollment leads to not only decreased tuition revenue but also diminished government funding and reduced philanthropic support. For example, the U.S.

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Education Student Award University 77

sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Your charitable organization has probably fielded questions from curious supporters and internal audiences on the ways it might be leveraged. We’ll summarize a few key takeaways and point to some resources that might be helpful as you think through the impact of this technology. Is it just a fad? ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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Model Italy Test Generation 69

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

This mode starts by preparing your organization to withstand system shocks by employing “steady state” Survive, which are proactive steps taken even when markets are frothy. Preparation shifts your perception of change from a risk to protect yourself from, to a growth opportunity.

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Latvia Companies North America San Francisco 93

Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2021

The mission of government is to provide support, information, and services to citizens. When digital platforms are absolutely essential to achieve this, outdated legacy systems, approaches, and skillsets create challenges to effectively deliver these key services and meet constituents’ expectations. What is a legacy system?

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Government System Adopt Digital 68

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You likely already have an idea of the kind of support you’re looking for. Major giving and prospect research support. Internal support, like for accounting or HR. Nonprofits generally don’t partner with consultants year-round for ongoing support with all of their operations. Zobrio – Financial & Accounting Support.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

We’ll be exhibiting at the Science Fair, running a nonprofit idea generator for our Caravan Studios project, and hosting an open lounge where you can come by for tech support, advice on Office 365, and to hear some of our partners talk about their exciting new projects for the sector. Come By Our Science Fair Booth. – 3 p.m.

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