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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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New on SSIR: Give Permission to Peer Influence

Amy Sample Ward

My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog. 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.

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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Financials to Increase Transparency

Connection Cafe

Oftentimes, stakeholders are so far removed from the budget and the balance sheet that they may have no clue how the organization is doing, or they only give the financial statements a cursory review without going deeper. This is a huge missed opportunity. Enumerate program costs.

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How to Visualize Information and Help Change the World

Tech Soup

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Don't rely on maps, charts, or graphs because that's what you're familiar with; instead, use the best medium or format or organizing principle to express the idea best. Image 1 : Tactical Technology Collective.

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How to Visualize Information to Change the World for Better

Tech Soup

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Don't rely on maps, charts, or graphs because that's what you're familiar with; instead, use the best medium or format or organizing principle to express the idea best. Image 1 : Tactical Technology Collective.

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