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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

Without that, the SOA can misrepresent the financial health of the organization and lead to future funding issues. Often, this leads to large audit adjustments, budget vs actual reporting difficulties, and other funding challenges. Broadly grouped expenses or revenues can obscure the allocation of funds across different programs.

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10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A good example of a donation page with proper branding is the World Wildlife Fund’s primary donation page : Accepting PayPal in addition to credit cards is a good idea to accommodate those donors that prefer to give through PayPal, but don’t make all donors use PayPal.

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How to Tell Your Donors Where Their Money Is Going

NonProfit Hub

If you want to go the extra mile, you can create charts and graphs that show how you allocate funds. For example: “Why are so many of your funds being spent on administration and supplies?”). Make it visual. You should also remind donors to keep the bigger picture in mind. Don’t forget about emotion.

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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. Funding sources (who funds your organization and what are their reporting requirements?). Building Your Chart of Accounts. So What Exactly Is a Chart of Accounts?

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The Lurker to Contributor Ratio: Tagging Communities Compared To Other Online Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE??? project 2007 Survey , Via Stephen Downes comes a pointer to a David White's JISC funded ???SPIRE??? Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 technologies.

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Guest Post: Introducing the New GuideStar Nonprofit Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Users can now see organizational growth, revenue, expenditures, and funding in a historical context. Turning snapshots into stories . Data is meaningless without context.

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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.