Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE , Founder and CEO at The International Social Impact Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, adapting to the digital realm has become a pivotal challenge. Among the innovative tools that have garnered attention is ChatGPT.

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VisionLink

AUGUST 31, 2023

Visionlink builds integrated software solutions, with expert consultation and implementation services, to transform people-serving organizations. Our Community Operating System™ is used by large and small nonprofits, 211’s, elder care agencies, state, county, and federal agencies, disaster relief organizations, and many others.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Your auditor’s year-end work will remain critical to ensure the financial integrity of your nonprofit’s books and records and compliance with ever-changing regulations. Audit firms have now, however, transitioned to long-term partners, particularly for nonprofits contemplating transformative system or operational changes.

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Forum One

MAY 13, 2021

In this post, we focus on the processes and technology of migrating your government services to digital. Streamlining and improving your processes. One of the goals of modernization should be to streamline and improve processes. Improving your process will be critical to the perceived success of your modernization.

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

Five questions you can ask your board to help build momentum and appetite for a tech shift: When you’re deciding how to approach your board about a change in technology, you can start by asking some or all of these five questions: What do you see as our biggest limiting factors (internally) for reaching our goals? Try one (or both!)

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

Upgrading and updating technology systems to keep up with the digital world are necessary evils. Writing RFPs and managing technology migrations detract from grants managers’ ability to process grants. What Is a System Migration? The specific steps and their order may vary depending on the project’s size and complexity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members. The seven roles are : The leader as sponsor -- You provide strategic direction, boundaries and coaching for the team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In other words, compliance, accountability, and efficiency are mission-critical, and they are achieved through effective time management and employee expense reporting systems. 4) Internal Communications Tools. Keeping teams organized and synched can be a convoluted process, but the right calendar option can remedy this problem.

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Increase efficiency and minimize manual work Accelerate approvals with tailored workflows, automated nudges, and end-to-end visibility at each stage of the application process. Integrate our analytics tool directly into workflows to drive real-time automation, decision-making, and consistency across your entire grants management process.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

The introduction of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, now allows AI applications to enhance the capabilities of machine learning models by integrating them with a retrieval component. Safety and Reliability: AI systems should be safe and reliable. Human in the Loop: AI should augment, not replace, human decision-making.

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Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

PEAK Grantmaking’s “Reimagining Philanthropy” conference in March exploring these themes was a fitting setting for a session Candid organized about advancing systems change via data collaboration at scale. Candid helps us to be transparent and accountable to our community,” Dickenson said.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Being aware of these common pitfalls is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your financial reporting and in turn, the trust of your supporters. How to Avoid: To avoid this mistake, organizations must develop robust systems for tracking and reporting on restricted versus unrestricted funds. Let’s dive in!

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

This curated track features members of Blackbaud’s K–12 Executive Advisory Board and our internal experts discussing how technology in schools has evolved, new best practices, and fresh ideas. Every manual process is an opening for human error, data loss, or outright theft. Where do you start?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members. The seven roles are : The leader as sponsor -- You provide strategic direction, boundaries and coaching for the team.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Tech stack integration Salesforce isn’t a tool that is used in isolation – it’s the central hub of an entire ecosystem. We’ll deploy proven AppExchange products to extend the scope of your Salesforce platform, as well as integrating existing components of your tech stack to create one holistic system.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about Salesforce for Nonprofits implementation, including what it involves, how long it takes, and what nonprofits like yours can expect from the process. Fundraising: Create and manage fundraising campaigns, process donations securely, and evaluate the success of these efforts.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But even when fundraising is routinely exceeding targets and the gifts cannot be processed – nor the donors thanked – fast enough, Development and Finance both hate when their numbers don’t correspond. let’s look at the top seven reasons to integrate your fundraising CRM with your general ledger: Reducing Errors. Reducing Effort.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

Improving Internal & External Communications with Marketing Cloud. This migration couldn’t have come at a better time, according to Director of Digital Strategy Evan Thrailkill: “Marketing Cloud remedied internal communication challenges and replaced an email system that had become basically unusable.” .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Plain Language Association International. Your current CRM does not integrate with th parties , such as MailChimp, Shopify, Stripe, and Facebook Fundraising Tools. Include the option to add credit card processing fees. You will only receive the name and email address of donors if they opt-in during the donation process.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Your online giving platform should be backed by a reliable, secure payment processing system. The system should have anti-fraud measures in place and be PCI-compliant. Your donor management system should provide data about who your most engaged supporters are. These platforms may include: An email marketing tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing. The vendor will craft the system and recommendations according to your internal constraints and capabilities. Is your website a one-person operation?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I’ve summarized advice from our contributors to offer practical ideas for beginning to integrate the Association 4.0 Sig VanDamme, the Founder of NimbleUser, GoJectory, and VA2A, offered this advice to bring the board along on those speculative ventures: Preparing a board to manage risk is a sales process. “Association 4.0:

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

With a little preparation and proactive communication, your remote audit can be a smooth process that helps you start the year understanding where you are. Tip 2: Prepare your fund accounting system for the audit. Tip 1: Carve out 30 minutes to review the dashboards and customized reports in your fund accounting system.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Kindful allows users to create visually engaging peer-to-peer campaigns that integrate with your website, social media, and email marketing. They only con working with them in the past has been a lack of responsiveness on the customer support side, as well as issues with integration from previous platforms. . 5) Neon :: neoncrm.com.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

As Catholic schools address enrollment and fundraising challenges and rising operating costs, it becomes critical to break down those silos and standardize accounting practices and systems within a diocese. Another thing to consider is what some software systems call “view-only access.” Get an Enterprise View. Involve All Stakeholders.

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Forum One

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, it can result in improvements to a grant application process, which returns much stronger applications that ultimately create a bigger impact for your organization. Service design can facilitate internal innovation by working across previously siloed teams and spur new ideas and approaches. Save time and money.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

The Salesforce nonprofit grantmaking solution, foundationConnect, was created over 15 years ago on the belief that we could support better collaboration among stakeholders in the grants management process. A point solution makes data collection from multiple sources difficult and often requires integration with third-party applications.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For funders and nonprofits alike, we now offer robust tools and resources to make the process of collecting and accessing demographic data as simple as possible. One major step was integrating this data seamlessly into our partners’ existing grantmaking workflows.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

During the Type 1 audit, businesses are evaluated on their hiring and data management systems, and the SOC 2 auditors determine if their design meets the trust principles. In Type 2, the continued effectiveness of those systems is checked. . There are two parts of the SOC 2 Certification, Type 1 and Type 2.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Statement of Scope With so many issues that could be addressed and so many intersection points across organizational processes, scope creep—the tendency for a project to expand beyond its originally intended purpose—can quickly bog down a project. Make sure to document exactly what your project will be focused on (i.e., out of scope).

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s designed to consolidate and integrate data from various sources, including CRM systems, fundraising software, financial databases, program management tools, and more. This centralization allows nonprofits to process and organize data from multiple places so that it’s easy to understand and use altogether.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Whether involved in humanitarian response in conflict or disaster situations, development work, human rights, or peace-building, our international nonprofit customers have some of the most complex nonprofit missions on earth. You can do this by going to Profile > System Preferences > disable “Export Reports”.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 5, 2023

Salesforce is a CRM (customer relationship management) system provider. This allows nonprofits, whether specializing in human rights, environmental concerns, arts and culture, and more, to customize their system to their exact specifications. Salesforce is a comprehensive system with an extensive array of apps.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

By leveraging technology and streamlining processes, your organization can adapt to rising demands with the financial flexibility to thrive. Inadequate Processes. For many nonprofits, outdated and manual processes place a further burden on staff’s time. Build Integrations. Prepare for Changes with Documented Processes.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This means customers are able to freely import data from external sources, utilize custom mapping to connect that data to the desired objects or fields in a Salesforce org and catch any potential duplicate records in the process before they are created. OmniStudio for Admissions Connect.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Successful grant management for your nonprofit, foundation, or federal grant recipient depends on doing the small tasks well, such as internal controls and risk management, while also understanding what opportunities (and threats) are ahead. Internal controls are not just for finance people anymore. Not so much.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

You also monitor progress and ensure integrity in the team's operating processes. You also ensure internal coordination of activities among team members. The seven roles are : The leader as sponsor -- You provide strategic direction, boundaries and coaching for the team.

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