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

sgEngage

With an accounting system designed to manage and track balances by fund and subfund across fiscal years and with supported documentation, you can minimize risk by making nonprofit compliance a streamlined process. It’s not just the end-of-grant reporting that can cause problems.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. Track your own data. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: .

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

This can cause problems when tasks fall through the cracks or emails go to inboxes that no longer exist. 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.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tracking: This is keeping track of the conversation themes and threads. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. If you facilitate and scribe, sometimes it can slow down the conversation and this can be problem if you are doing brainstorming.

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Five Steps to Finding ROI

Amy Sample Ward

So, how do identify if you are succeeding or evaluate if you are improving? We are usually pretty quick to highlight problems, so this is probably the easiest step! Be sure to focus in on the problems you plan to address with your social media strategies (we all want to change the world, but that’s not a specific).

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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

Get Fully Funded

” “The conversation easily gets off-track, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed and we haven’t even discussed important business because we’ve gotten off on a tangent again.” Overcoming Challenging Board Members Almost every small and growing nonprofit Board has problems. People-problems are harder to fix.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot?

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