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Resilient Communities Fund application questions

Charity Village

The Ontario Trillium Foundation has announced that grant applications for the Resilient Communities Fund are now open. The post Resilient Communities Fund application questions appeared first on CharityVillage. Application Deadline […].

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Creating Financial Transparency with Your IRS 990 Series (and Maintaining Tax Compliance)

sgEngage

And then there is your annual IRS 990 series filing deadline. With an ever-changing landscape of fundraising, economic conditions, and tactics for expanding mission-related programming, finding time for IRS tax reporting and filing 990 Series returns can be beyond challenging. This couldn’t be more inaccurate!

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How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle

sgEngage

Here are some of the internal controls your grantees should have: Formal Written Policies and Procedures You want to make sure your grantees have documented and defined ways of managing and tracking the funds they receive. How do you minimize the time between requesting grant funds and paying vendors? How do you track time and effort?

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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds.

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Protecting the right to give according to our values

Candid

Those concerns were borne out just a few months later in the form of a lawsuit brought by the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER)—led by the same conservative activist who’d brought the higher education case—against the Fearless Fund and its Fearless Foundation. What is at stake? Photo credit: Carol M.

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Five myths and misconceptions about Candid’s grant data

Candid

tax exempt nonprofit organizations must file various Forms 990 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) each year. We also link grants from different funders to the same recipient to visualize the broader funding ecosystem. For example: To get more accurate numbers about foundation funding, other funder types should be excluded (e.g.,

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

In contrast to for-profit organizations, nonprofits rely on donations, usually a combination of individual donations, grants, sponsorships, and corporate donations, to fund their operations and further their charitable missions. For example, different states have different processes for filing articles of incorporation and the fees required.