Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

When set up right, your nonprofit accounting system will help you manage your nonprofit and streamline processes like budgeting, projecting cash flow, and even hiring. The problem is that if you’re like most, you haven’t paid a lot of attention to your accounting system. It should be part of your organization’s internal culture.

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EveryAction

MARCH 8, 2023

Ask if they’re capturing and maintaining data in places such as spreadsheets or email inboxes to make sure you migrate all necessary information into your new software system. Review your data tables, queries, reports, and exports. Provide them with user names and passwords for system and program access. Do a data clean-up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? How long is the onboarding process?

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

Your audit might explore any, or all of, these seven areas: Technology systems Policies and procedures Security Productivity Communication Culture Professional development How you present this initiative to your employees is critical. Review your organization’s strategic goals, team KPIs, and performance evaluations.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 25, 2024

A major perk of having your a ssociation m anagement s oftware (AMS) built on the world’s top CRM platform is being connected to the Salesforce ecosystem. Choosing Nimble AMS and connecting to the Salesforce ecosystem helps you extend your system, ensuring you always have a solution for your next challenge.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 11, 2023

Making technology or process changes in the workplace is hard work. User adoption is the experience employees go through when using new technology or following new processes with existing technology. It might also be helpful to hold annual workshops to review the most frequently used terms in the dictionary. It takes time.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit firms have now, however, transitioned to long-term partners, particularly for nonprofits contemplating transformative system or operational changes. Nonprofits would sometimes modify or overhaul their systems and controls without engaging their auditors.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy. Tip 2: Bring both your program and finance teams into the grant application and award process.

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sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2024

To mitigate risk throughout your grant cycle, you need to know your grantees through relationships and documentation, support their internal controls, and set up a process for whistleblower complaints. Depending on how your application is set up, you can add an open-ended question or discuss it during a follow-up conversation.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule. This document will help new team members absorb your unique grantmaking process and keep everyone on the same page.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Streamline event registration and ticketing processes with an AI-powered chatbot. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Most associations don’t have an easy way to measure member engagement across all their different systems and touch points. Step 2: Explore – In addition to reviewing the data in their dashboard, IAEE asked members in its annual member survey and in post webinar surveys about topics they’d like to learn more about.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Grant writers are often the unsung heroes of the application process. But it never hurts to review what information you’re asking for and whether it can be shortened or be collected in a different way. Are any of the questions duplicative? Also review your formatting guidelines and templates. Try to fill it out yourself.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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. Preparing a board to tolerate risk, is a sales process. Companies with between five and 250 employees are the target market for this system.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

This short paragraph should answer questions such as: Why is this project worth doing? The problem statement should not presume a cause or prescribe a solution but should answer questions such as: What’s wrong or not meeting the needs of our stakeholders? Why is it important to do it now? When and where do problems occur?

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Fund accounting systems with grant management can help you from beginning to end if you are a grant-funded organization—or want to be. Here are three ways that your fund accounting system can support your grant management needs. The more manual data entry you do, the more errors can creep into your accounting system.

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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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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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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Still have questions about the importance of data hygiene? Cleaning your data can also improve its accuracy, helping to inform your decision-making process. This is why the process of data hygiene is crucial for your organization. Stark needed to take a closer look to review the analytics in the system.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. Here are some questions to ask yourself: How long does it take for your grantees to fill out your application? What feedback have you received from your grantees about your application process?

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

While we have several channels for gathering customer feedback, UX research is unique since it is about partnering with our current and prospective users to help us understand and adjust to their needs and motivations during the product development process. But the good news is we didn’t have to develop complex new systems to find out.

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Double the Donation

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We’ve made a lot of significant changes to the Double the Donation platform this year in order to provide increased functionality and streamline matching gift processes. The set-up for connecting DTD with our CRM system AND our email platform literally happened in just a few clicks. Product Updates & Enhancements.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Whether you are considering a new fundraising and engagement CRM, advocacy tool, reengineered database, custom integration, CMS or back office system, a separate discovery is the BEST approach to ensuring success. Your people can help answer critical questions: Are we solving the right problem? Why is that?

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2023

By taking these steps early in your audit process, you can make your remote audit seamless and almost painless. It’s important to find an auditor who is engaged in the process, and that you enjoy working with. Having an auditor whose calls you aren’t tempted to send to voicemail will make the entire process more enjoyable.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Since your website is such a vital component of your online outreach strategy, you’ll need to choose the right content management system (CMS) to build and manage it. You may be considering revamping your website by migrating it to a new system or creating a brand new site from scratch. Compare top platforms.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Finally, because the Foundation 1000 represents a much smaller subset of grant data, it is possible to review the data more thoroughly. We also conduct manual review of the largest grants by dollar amount to ensure that they’ve been coded accurately (see more on this below.) Still have questions about the Foundation 1000?

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 8, 2022

A well-executed data governance policy will often include a steering committee or leadership board to determine the data standards and discuss the implementation process and enforcement procedures. Without proper care for your data, your system can fall prey to data inconsistencies, causing major problems across your organization.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Whether you’re implementing a new CRM or looking to refamiliarize your staff with an existing system, these insights will help you pursue your data-driven endeavors. Provide guidelines on how employees should handle and store data within the CRM system to maintain data integrity and confidentiality.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 2, 2022

We do a lot of federal grants,” says Chuck Everhart System Software Manager of the IACP and Nimble AMS customer. . The process of grant writing can be complicated, and even if your association has been getting funds for years, there’s always ways to improve. Recruit a reviewer. Do your research.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Time to start the RFP process to make sure you find the best vendor for your organization. While creating a Request for Proposals can be labor-intensive, time consuming, and stressful, we've put together some tips to make the whole process go a little smoother. Some questions should include. You know what that means!

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2023

Donation processing poses a significant risk to your nonprofit organization, both in terms of reputation and finances. We’ll discuss the potential risks associated with donation processing and provide proactive measures you can take to safeguard your nonprofit’s funds. But this doesn’t have to be a place of anxiety.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

With careful planning, agile processes, and responsiveness in your grantmaking process of giving can help you react in a more thoughtful way. By following these five best practices, you’ll create a more efficient healthcare grantmaking process where you can anticipate evolving community needs and be more agile in your funding.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 22, 2023

Creating a business case requires you to review your organizational goals and challenges and the potential benefits a new software solution can provide. Does the AMS create staff efficiencies through process automation that streamlines manual processes? Your entire board will want to work more efficiently and effectively.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Finally, we add Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System (PCS), a comprehensive coding system that allows people to sort grants by hundreds of categories to better understand where funding is going and what it’s for. Candid has been a pioneer of using AI and machine learning to scale up the amount of data we can process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

At a nonprofit, a donation must be tracked throughout the accounting process, and if the funds are restricted, supporting documentation is required to prove that the funds were only used for the stated purpose. If you are a grantor you may need additional tools to handle the application, award, and post-award processes.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

We’ll explore: Types of fundraising software to consider 7 essential fundraising software features to look for 5 steps to buy fundraising software 5 questions to ask when buying fundraising software It’s worth taking the time to research potential solutions, discuss options with your team, and deliberate before coming to a final decision.

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

That said, it’s not only a question of keeping up with the times. It’s a matter of making sure your teams have the best tools and processes at their disposal, your members get the best experience possible, and you can deliver on your mission. Can you streamline the process to make it easier to join?

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