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Demystifying the Major Nonprofit Accounting Methods

Pamela Grow

Keeping thorough, accurate records of your organization’s finances allows you to know how much funding you have on hand and effectively allocate it to further your mission. To keep your financial data organized, you can use either of two primary tracking methods: cash accounting and accrual accounting.

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What to Do When Your Fundraising Methods Fall Flat

Get Fully Funded

It’s a horrible feeling when the tried-and-true fundraising methods that have worked in the past stop working. Even experienced fundraisers sometimes use fundraising methods that just don’t work for a particular organization or audience. Let’s back up and look at your methods of fundraising through the eyes of your donor.

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The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity

NTEN

It is missing a translation layer, which is why even the largest, most well-funded organizations struggle with technology. It would cost executive jobs if competitors in the same industry, such as soda, shared formulas, manufacturing methods, and research to improve soda products’ quality across all companies.

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Are we building the Candid tools you need? 

Candid

To understand how Candid products can best serve our users, we need to know what problems those users are trying to solve. What problems are we trying to solve? For straightforward problems, we produce one design and ask users to confirm that it should work. And with each significant release, we conduct more formal testing.

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

Candid

Our executive vice president, Jacob Harold, wrote about three sourcing methods we use to collect grants data—IRS filings, direct reporting, and web scraping—on the Candid blog.) How has funding for Black communities changed since George Floyd’s murder?” COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem, especially for 2019 and 2020 data.

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5 Times Foundations Cause More Problems Than They Solve

NonProfit Hub

But all too often, foundations, corporate grantmakers, and donors end up unintentionally causing problems instead of helping to solve them. Here are five common ways foundations cause more problems than they solve: Providing short-term funding for a long-term outcome. Offering seed money without considering sustainability.

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Five Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits That Don’t Work (or Why You Aren’t Raising Enough Money)

Get Fully Funded

They’re excited to get their fledgling organization off the ground, and they need the funds to do it. Sometimes when people are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, they’re looking for a quick solution to solve their funding problems. Broken Funding Models for Nonprofits Truly, it’s not your fault.

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