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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Leveraging Your Board for Nonprofit Fundraising: 10 Creative Strategies and Tips for Success

The Modern Nonprofit

Say goodbye to missed opportunities and hello to a thriving nonprofit as we dive into these game-changing methods that will set your board – and your organization – on the path to success. If employees or retirees who serve on a nonprofit board make contributions, they could receive higher matching ratios or limits on their matching gifts.

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What is Corporate Giving? The Ultimate Guide to Earning More

Nonprofits Source

Companies can mix and match different methods to create the perfect corporate giving program for their organizations. The concept of a matching gift is simple: An employee contributes to their nonprofit of choice, and their employer matches their donation at a predetermined ratio. What Are the Different Types of Corporate Giving?

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

Color theory, golden ratios, and hierarchy principles are rehearsed and practiced in design school and written about in magazines over and over again. What is beauty and good design, and who created the rules? . We often think of design as objective and fundamental. As designers, we practice the rules until they become second nature. .

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

You will not be able to identify tools and engagement methods for your organization online without knowing the bigger picture and without knowing it in concrete goals that will let you build and work towards them. Review the POST Method. are there new opportunities for partnerships or collaborations? Goals & Objectives.

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

Tech Soup

This ratio and the statement of functional expenses has become a barometer for a very important group of readers of the financial statements, and as such, we need to reflect this in the chart of accounts of a nonprofit organization to which SFAS #117 applies (and this is a large group of nonprofit organizations). SUGGESTED METHOD #1.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach. But thats okay.

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