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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

sgEngage

Neglecting Month-to-Month Financial Comparisons Month-to-month comparisons are crucial for detecting trends, anomalies, and areas of concern in your financial activities. It automates and facilitates these comparisons, allowing for more efficient monitoring and decision-making. Use financial management software with analytical tools.

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Finding a Nonprofit Partner: Who is the Right One?

BoardAssist

A financial analysis is typically a summary of key organizational financial data from the most recent 5 years of the Form 990, including calculations of growth rates, profitability, liquidity and asset ratios. Specific areas to evaluate are: signs of unmanageable financial problems, negative trends, or anomalies.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take a trend-line view. Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? Many times we need to use technology to facilitate the meeting, whether it is bring a remote worker or view a presentation. The difficult thing about time is that it is not infinite. Your teams needs to accept that you have to make choices.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . What do you do to facilitate it?

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Making the Most of Your Nonprofit’s Website: Understanding the Basics

Connection Cafe

Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. In terms of visual frontend elements, the contrast ratio between your site’s text and its background is key. This is a trend worth adopting! Your organization’s website should be fulfilling a few vital functions: Communicating your mission and work.

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7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You should pay attention to monthly trends of content consumption over time. Hard data points: Look at the feed subscribers trends from Feedburner and unique visitor trends from Google Analytics. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio. What do you do to facilitate it?

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11 Charity Auction Tips for Raising More Money

Neon CRM

This type of tool has a more narrow feature set—it focuses almost exclusively on facilitating bidding without including any other event planning tools. Try to strike a ratio of three bottles to every five attendees. Segment Future Event Invitations Are you noticing a trend here? Mobile bidding. at your event.

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