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Beyond the Audit: 6 Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm

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Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles. Or possibly the organization is updating their internal controls and wants to make sure their changes are sufficient and reasonable.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. My colleague Joanna Pineda, Founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. An organizational chart. Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel.

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Don’t Jeopardize Your Nonprofit Compliance with a Commercial Accounting System?

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When evaluating an accounting system for your nonprofit, look for a segmented chart of accounts and record-based subfund tracking capabilities. You get more granular tracking for easier reporting without creating an unmanageably long chart of accounts. It’s front-and-center throughout the life of the grant—and beyond.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

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This effective guide will be a comprehensive blueprint to working at your organization, including links to relevant resources, steps for data entry, and flow charts outlining who is responsible for which tasks. Evaluate the tasks the new user will perform regularly before handing over keys to the system.

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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

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Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization. Evaluation can be painful.

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How Nonprofits Practice Continuous Improvement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the simplest ways to practice continuous improvement is to incorporate a process evaluation. And, of course, your evaluation will also include looking at the data from surveys and interviews with participants after the event. 4) The next step is compare these top level themes against the participant evaluation.(We

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

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One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. The four key questions are: What data to collect? How To Collect Data. Meaning Making. Communicating Results.

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