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Strengthening Your “Internal Partner” Muscles

VQ Strategies

Whether delivering services, providing pro bono support, governing as a board member, or sending advocacy emails, volunteers play vital roles in mission-fulfillment. Like most leaders of volunteers, you wear multiple hats because functioning as an internal partner requires it. Become an effective internal partner. Change Agent?

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Have grantmaker salaries kept up with inflation?  

Candid

The Council on Foundations’ 2023 Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Report Key Findings (for which Candid provided data analysis) offer a broad picture: Median full-time staff salaries for select roles rose 5.49% between 2022 and 2023, i as reported by a non-representative panel of 514 grantmaking organizations.

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

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The Role of Efficiency in Nonprofit Compliance Efficient and streamlined processes aren’t just important for your sanity—they are a key part of maintaining compliance. When evaluating an accounting system for your nonprofit, look for a segmented chart of accounts and record-based subfund tracking capabilities.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

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Here are some best practices for effectively managing staff turnover and onboarding with your grantmaking software, including some methods of reassigning existing records to new staff members, establishing clear security roles, and building a comprehensive policies and procedures guide to keep everyone on the same page.

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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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How to find your first prospective donors: Tips for new nonprofits 

Candid

Simultaneously, make sure your nonprofit has in place a clearly stated mission, vision, and values , as well as sound infrastructure: a qualified team, internal governance and management systems, technology, and partners. Bring on the board Your other early-stage prospective donors are your board members.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. Be internally and publicly transparent about the processes for data collection. Building knowledge is a social process where we make meaning together.

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