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The data/crisis catch-22: How the pandemic created a social sector data gap  

Candid

tax-exempt organizations file annually, are a major source of data about nonprofits and foundation grantmaking in the United States. For one, busy and understaffed organizations are requesting filing extensions—the IRS expects roughly 762K tax-exempt extensions for fiscal year 2022. Case in point: 990 data. IRS Form 990s, which U.S.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This global Martus meeting brought together individuals who use Martus to address different human rights documentation and security needs in widely varied projects, to share their successes and challenges with the software. What if you could quickly and easily import data from other formats, like a Word document, PDF file or photograph?

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Where are the 2019 (and 2020) 990s? On filling the gaps in Candid’s grants data

Candid

There’s no universal date for filing 990s; instead, the end of an organization’s fiscal year determines when its 990 is due at the IRS. Add in six-month filing extensions and IRS processing time, and it can be two years before we receive all the returns for a specific year. A status update on filings.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. You can use Box's cloud-based storage and collaboration tools to replace traditional on-premises file servers and traditional file-sharing processes. See the Box.org Donation Program for details about this offer.

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Storymakers 2014 Winners — A Global Success

Tech Soup

TechSoup's annual storytelling campaign was created to help nonprofits and social good organizations communicate differently, to build community, and to educate on how to tell powerful and effective stories for a global audience. We were blown away by the global participation in this year's campaign. spanhidden.

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How "Small" Payroll Mistakes Cause Multi-Year S#!t Storms for Nonprofits

Blue Fox

This causes (1) incorrect filing of payroll forms (federal and state) for the period this occurred, (2) errors related to benefits and deductions like retirement balances, unemployment compensation, and workers comp. 3) No one files quarterly tax forms (yes, it happens). File your taxes on time, pay the correct payroll tax, etc.

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Paw-sitively Purr-fect Online Learning: The 'For The Paws' Summit

Care2

The For the Paws Global Fundraising Summit 2023 is the only international fundraising conference for animal welfare charities. Join 450+ animal welfare professionals on April 3rd to 5th to learn about acquiring monthly donors, growing your major gifts file, digital fundraising strategies and more. And, it's fully accessible online!