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Useful Tips & Resources for Your Nonprofit’s Annual Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Even though nonprofit organizations aren’t required by law to publish annual reports, most nonprofit leaders recognize the value annual reports can provide. A well-written annual report will help you demonstrate your accomplishments to current and future donors, cultivate new partnerships, and recognize important people.

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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

Get Fully Funded

There are two things that can help A LOT here: organizational by-laws and Board member job descriptions. By-laws What do by-laws have to do with Board meetings? If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible.

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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available.

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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, nonprofits are guided by a mission- like providing education in under-served areas, supporting research to find cures to diseases, creating community among a specific group of people, and more. by donors, grantors, governing boards, or by law.???. An organization may have many funds supporting?its?mission.

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Conduct initial research Before taking any steps to formally establish your nonprofit, conduct background research into the people and groups who will help you get your new organization off the ground. Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community. Look into: Your primary audience.

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

women became the majority of law students. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. I have noticed that a significant percentage, I daresay a majority, of the people attending the big annual Nonprofit Technology Conferences (NTC) have been women every year.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Legal Counsel About Using Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. How do the rules on lobbying play into our social media strategy? What if we’re asking people to take action on Facebook, does that constitute lobbying? We run a social service agency that provides counselling to people. How do the [.]