sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

As a CPA working with nonprofits of all sizes, I’ve encountered numerous errors in Board of Directors’ financial reports and Statements of Activities documents. How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). How to Avoid: Accounting standards are always changing.

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Activities Active Activism Comparison 77

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy. Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income.

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Foundation Build Fund Review 78

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy. Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income.

Foundation 52

Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

One study found that 86 percent of respondents believed that having a strategic plan positively impacted revenue generation through grants, donors, events, and other avenues. A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Seems reasonable, right?

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

Not only is it a mess to get accurate financial reports, you can’t get the data you need for grants which can wipe out your chances of getting grant funding. A simple report with a pie chart can easily show you that. So set up your Chart of Accounts right from the get-go. Again, big mess. One size does NOT fit all here.

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System Help Nonprofit Track 98

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most important lessons a nonprofit practitioner can learn in their career is that budgets are moral documents. First use this year’s revenue to establish a baseline for all your expected revenue, including but not limited to individual giving, major gifts, events income, expected pledges, and grants. What does that mean?

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Analysis Project Donor Retention 52

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

I once sat in a boardroom reviewing a forecasted profit and loss statement for an organization I was leading. Designated Funds: Funds donated or granted for a specific purpose. Keep in mind that 990s are considered to be public documents. Think of this in terms of a pie chart, not a donor list.

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Team Nonprofit Profit Fund 77

Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. From finding the right grants to writing and applying for them, grant proposals require a lot of research and attention to detail! What is a grant proposal?

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Proposal Grant Template Guide 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2014

Grant-making foundations can get a year of access for an unlimited number of users at a discount of 25 percent. PhilanTrack for Foundations is an online grants management system that helps foundations manage all grant-related information in a centralized online location. PhilanTrack for Foundations is now available on TechSoup.

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Foundation Proposal Grant Application 36

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Monday.com Platform overview: Monday.com enables workflows based on your organization’s needs, including views like Gantt charts, Kanban, and more. You can centralize your team’s documents, images, videos, and other resources into one accessible location. Dropbox Sign enables organizations to prepare, send, sign, and track documents.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 86

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Track your grants and pledges all in one place. Click here to read EveryAction's Capterra reviews. #28. Plus, our users love us!

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Advocacy Offline Gartner Nonprofit 88

sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

The person who coined the term “cat herding” may have been a grants manager. From applications to reviews to reporting, there are a lot of moving parts to a funding program. Here are five ways grants management software can help you save time and better manage your funding programs.

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Grant Software Management Application 71

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Most people are familiar with PDF documents, and if you don't use Acrobat, you've probably at least used the free Adobe Reader to view a PDF that someone else created. Acrobat's most notable feature is that it allows you to create PDF documents from a variety of source files, but there are a lot of other uses too.

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Adobe PDF Files PowerPoint 36

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Most people are familiar with PDF documents, and if you don't use Acrobat, you've probably at least used the free Adobe Reader to view a PDF that someone else created. Acrobat's most notable feature is that it allows you to create PDF documents from a variety of source files, but there are a lot of other uses too.

Adobe 36

Adobe PDF Files PowerPoint 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. I also always review Bloom's Taxonomy and have found this diagram really useful. Audience Research.

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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. So if you have to leave early, maybe you just want to review the content, don’t worry. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 98

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top.

Campaign 90

Campaign Video Project Process 90

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

and all over the world, that focus on essential topics like: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants / #IFC2016 / @TheResAlliance. Fundraising & Grants. Annual Conference of Grant Professionals. Annual Conference of Grant Professionals. Grant Professionals Association / Atlanta, GA / $840.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe get interrupted or you just want to review the awesome content you’re about to hear, don’t worry. When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.” So one of the charts is individual giving by category.

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Video Fundraising Louisiana Minnesota 91

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Solution: As a nonprofit, AnnieCannons relies on fundraising to support its programs — though the organization aims to be self-sustaining one day — and uses the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) as the cornerstone of client management practices for donors and grants. Learn more about how Salesforce helps The Code to work smarter, not harder.

Asia 98

Asia Dominican Republic Cambodia Children 98

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So what data are you collecting and reviewing regularly?” People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in. So that’s one of the risks of not having documentation. . ” So having documentation is helpful. So we don’t document it until we can perfect it.

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Technology Video Nonprofit System 102

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Some people are really focused on grants that they’re not ready for, and they’re just kind of on this grant starvation cycle like, “We’re just hoping that that next one is going to save us.” Like, “If I just get this next grant, we’ll be saved.” ” Anybody been in that?

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Video Goal Method Impact 92