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Demystifying the Major Nonprofit Accounting Methods

Pamela Grow

To keep your financial data organized, you can use either of two primary tracking methods: cash accounting and accrual accounting. In this guide, we’ll discuss what each of these financial management systems looks like in practice, their respective benefits and drawbacks, and how to determine which method is right for your organization.

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Your Guide to Year-End Fundraising Best Practices

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Traditional methods, like direct mail, are still important for reaching older or less tech-oriented supporters. After setting your goal for dollars raised, determine what metrics you will be tracking throughout the campaign and your goals to measure against. What do you want to get out of your year-end campaign?

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Measuring Your Nonprofit’s Success with Business Intelligence 

Qgiv

At least one of the criteria for measuring a successful year is related to your financials. Measuring business intelligence However, our research shows about 84% of nonprofits lack such profiles. When you gather the right data to measure business intelligence, your people know what to do—and guess what? How much did you raise?

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Member Retention Strategies For Professional Associations

Association Analytics

Here are some member retention best practices to help you hold onto your members. Standardize retention calculation: It’s difficult to tell how strong your member base is at any given time if there’s no standardized method for counting it. To learn more about member engagement best practices, check out this blog.

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Resources for Measuring What Matters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been curating resources on nonprofit measurement over on Scoop.It, with eye towards collecting useful material related to social media and social impact measurement. Despite this, when it is times to do measurement, many feel that it is a daunting task. How can we improve our measurement practice?

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Association Strategies: 7 Best Practices for Your Nonprofit in 2024

Neon CRM

The specifics of your strategy are going to vary depending on your industry or your members’ interests or any one of a hundred other factors—but there are certain best practices that pretty much all successful nonprofit association strategies have in common. Want some help? Addressing cybersecurity and data privacy is important, too.

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments.

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