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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds.

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done.

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Fiscal Sponsorship for Nonprofits: An Alternative to 501c3 Status

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Put simply, fiscal sponsorship is an alternative method to obtaining tax-exempt status. The traditional method for nonprofits to obtain tax-exempt status is by filing as a 501(c)(3). For these types of organizations, the ability to raise funds as soon as possible is a critical part of their mission. What is fiscal sponsorship?

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent). Even a quick scan of the form fields above will reveal that much of this information is available from any public repository of 990 forms filed annually by US nonprofits. Research funding. How Did You Hear of Us (<1 percent).

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

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Cloud storage: For file sharing and storage, you can start with Drive through Google Workspace, so all documents can be stored in a convenient, accessible place. Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them. TechSoup can help you get set up with Office 365 at a discount.

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Alternately, performance pool continues operating, funded by cash returns re-investment by government.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. This alternative to cloud computing consists of all the computers that are already around us, connected in to a distributed network of devices through smart routers.

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