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QuickBooks for Nonprofits PRO TIP:  How to Use Classes for Painless Grant Writing

Blue Fox

#nerdalert) Using this method, you can allocate a percentage of staff salaries, general overhead, and direct program costs to each program WITHOUT adding a gazillion lines to your Chart of Accounts. Do you see the leverage and empowerment that comes with this kind of accounting setup? Please allow us to elaborate!

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Does Your Organization Have Social Media Guidelines for All Staff?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The general tone should be one of trust and empowerment. Social media response chart loosely based on the AirForce Blog Response Framework. All this should be communicated succinctly in a document that is based on discussion, roadshows, and training for staff on using social media effectively. Dos and Don’ts.

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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

. "After running successful community websites in London's challenging Kings Cross I wanted to help other communities achieve the same sense of empowerment and communication. If you like charts for understanding trending and relationships, this is a great one!

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New on SSIR: Give Permission to Peer Influence

Amy Sample Ward

When I say “give permission,&# in this post, I’m really saying that you should balance the herding and collecting of the community with the encouragement and empowerment for the community to go wherever it wants with your message or information. Now, what about peer influence?

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. Another major challenge involves the graphic content in ebooks, such as pictures, charts, and diagrams, formulas and special symbols. This is important here in the U.S.,

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Financials to Increase Transparency

Connection Cafe

Many organizations do not include nearly enough detail here; they write “Education Program” or “Girls Empowerment Program” and that’s it. This is a huge missed opportunity. Revenue diversity is an interesting calculation from the income statement that demonstrates how much you r organization relies on any one revenue source for funding.

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Caravan Studios for the Win: ReImagine: Opportunity Winner!

Tech Soup

Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. They started writing on a flip chart, sketching out their vision of the housing locator and the way it could connect to SafeNight. Non-traditional Groups, Innovative Ideas.