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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

Social Media Guidelines or what some call a social media policy summarizes your organization’s social media goals, how staff will participate (dos and do nots), identifies legal and privacy issues , a social media work flow , and staffing needs. The general tone should be one of trust and empowerment. 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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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries. 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. Use your 990 for greater transparency. This is a huge missed opportunity. Enumerate program costs.

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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.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Subject Matter Expertise: If the goal is peer learning, have to be careful about how subject expertise is dispersed into the room. What do you want to learn from working together?