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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

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In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. Why we use the Foundation 1000 sets for trends analysis As illustrated in the chart above, the Foundation 1000s’ grantmaking is much more stable over time compared to the broader grant data set.

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Nonprofit Accountant vs. Fractional CFO: The Key Differences

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Having multiple people working on your organization’s finances helps ensure accuracy—not only by delegating tasks efficiently, but also by allowing for additional review of records and reports. Focus Area Your accountant’s primary focus is on financial analysis. Filing tax forms. Analyzing budgets. Preparing for audits.

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

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In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Holding questions about power and privilege in mind, is it still justifiable that such waste is required of nonprofits?

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

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Yet, at most foundations, rarely does anyone with a communications background ever review the story this critical document shares with the outside world. All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them. Open Data Defined. What kinds of use cases are there?

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Export Your Universal Analytics Data Before It’s Too Late

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By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. Segments (optional): Isolate specific groups of users or sessions within your data for more targeted analysis. It can also be time-consuming and requires determining a storage location and naming convention for the resulting files.

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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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Trends in Sustainer Giving – Key Findings from the 2019 donorCentrics Sustainer Summit

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This year’s summit included 35 large nonprofit organizations that participate in our sustainer program benchmarking to review aggregate program performance, trends and challenges affecting sustainer giving. Data, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 17.7 billion in FY2018.

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