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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Setting Up the Chart of Accounts

Tech Soup

Some of the main goals of the implementation meeting are to produce a consensus on the definition of: The chart of accounts. This blog will provide some suggestions on building your chart of accounts in a manner that is practical and that will satisfy as many users of the financial statements as possible.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Charity Raters Part 1: Charting the Bad and the Bad.

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What Fuels Financial Sustainably? A Continuous Cycle of These 4 Elements

Blue Fox

Now, relate those to your external and internal environments. Let’s talk about, plan for and become proactive (a.k.a. steward) about your financial situation to put your organization in a more sustainable position. Data and the insights they reveal show you what financial risks and opportunities exist.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation? Use the perfect blend of visual and verbal.

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6 Online Speaking Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a presenter, advocate, or fundraiser, your job is to ensure that your colleagues, followers, or students want to soak up your message — a tall order, especially in a digital environment. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation? Use the perfect blend of visual and verbal.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

What do you think the ratio is of you talking versus the donor talking? Was a major environmental foundation because a dollar spent on the environment today is worth five dollars a decade from now if we’re doing things like climate change or preserving [inaudible 00:30:02] forests. . And the reason I don’t like them.

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