sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Having a fund accounting system can significantly streamline your finance function. Tools like Power Automate and Power BI can extend your fund accounting and transform your nonprofit accounting software into an even more powerful tool. Week 1: Analyze Your Business Processes First, understand your current business processes.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This plan should outline the roles and responsibilities of your teams communication strategies and other specific actions to respond to various scenarios. Key Components of an Emergency Response Plan: Roles and Responsibilities: Assign clear roles to each team member to ensure accountability.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On the businesses’ side, Double the Donation’s statistics speak for themselves: 55% of employees say they would take a lower salary to work for a socially responsible company. Nonprofits and businesses alike understand that CSR is here to stay. Takeaways for Businesses Adopt an ESG approach. Track ESG impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. Many receive a combination of both.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Maintaining compliance can protect existing funding, as well. The Importance of Accurate Time Allocation for Nonprofits Accurate time allocation is a cornerstone for nonprofit organizations, especially those with grant funding. Grants often come with specific stipulations on how funds should be allocated and reported.

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2025

Link Technology Investments to the Organization’s Strategic Plan and Objectives To make a strong business case for any technology investment, you need to ensure that the proposal benefits not only the finance team but the organization as a whole. However, a strong business case can demonstrate the value of the investment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2023

Nonprofits of all types and sizes can use golf as an effective vehicle to raise mission-critical, unrestricted funds. What’s more, golfers tap into their personal and professional networks to fill their team for your tournament, which raises more awareness about your mission and subsequently broadens your donor base.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2025

Establish funding priorities: What gifts do you need of time, talent, and treasure to robustly champion your mission? Never underestimate the power of flexible when-and-where needed most funding. Set stretch but realistic goals: Now put numbers to the funding priorities. Capital projects and improvements? Programs and services?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Since contributions tend to pour in when hardships hit close to home, appeals for the emergency fund will be immediate. In an unfolding emergency, work with your marketing team to create a FAQ page, providing at-a-glance answers to the questions you know supporters will be asking. You can be very specific about funding.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 8, 2025

If the team at Intermountain could understand the path, they would be in a better position to make it smoother and more rewarding. The team at Intermountain Health used their existing donor data to identify the new donors they wanted to focus on. We [discovered that we] weren’t really using our data as well as we’d hoped.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Not only can you create a web application from a spreadsheet, you can pull data from a variety of sources to create a sophisticated business application automatically (although some tweaking may be required). The company has a big vision to be the software development tool for business units.

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The Fundraising Authority

JANUARY 2, 2021

Like great sales organizations, great development operations need a constant stream of prospects… individuals, companies, and foundations that are, or are likely to be, interested enough in your mission to donate funds to your non-profit. Creating and growing a prospect list is one of the key responsibilities of your fundraising team.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Creating a nonprofit business plan is an important step for any organization whether you’re about to launch or are well established in your community. . A nonprofit business plan is slightly different to the commercial sector. Leadership team building. Government funding and donor support. Financial projections.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Little surprise, then, that the YouTube star has spent the past few years leveraging his fame to build businesses that have nothing to do with the social media platforms he started out on. As reported by Bloomberg , Beast Industries has secured more than $450 million in funding over the past four years to fuel its businesses.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

However, effective procurement requires a strategic approach so you can use your nonprofit’s resources wisely and maximize the amount of event funding you can put toward your mission. and certificates for services (such as childcare or pet-sitting) that would make their busy lives easier.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

To confront these challenges, a nonprofit should ensure that its digital storytelling adheres to four essential guideposts: Transparency speaks to a nonprofit’s ability to demonstrate its legitimacy as a good steward of donated funds by, for example, sharing its audited financial statements and other, similar information. 3) Business Profile.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The right fund accounting software can save you time and streamline your processes. That’s why it is vital to make sure your team is prepared for the change and ready to identify the improvements that will increase your community health center’s efficiency and accountability. Identify the right skills on your team.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2024

You know how important it is to manage your funds according to their purpose and source. Or do you have to rely on manual workarounds, spreadsheets, and guesswork to track and report on your restricted funds? Without fund accounting software, tracking at that level of detail must be done manually outside the system.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. Give your project an easily identifiable name, such as Fund Accounting Software Implementation. What is a Project Charter? When and where do problems occur?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

As leadership and development teams lean in for a final push, donors are receiving countless requests for limited financial support. . It often takes 2-5 business days for the stock to be transferred and received, depending on the time of year. Appreciated stock represents $100 billion in potential funding.

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sgEngage

MAY 3, 2024

With multiple points of accountability and dynamic funding sources, accounting professionals in community health centers face complex challenges. And with that form of funding comes significant compliance requirements. With fund accounting software, you get an extra level of control over grant expense tracking and reporting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

If there is a key campaign or event happening for the organization, ask the organization if you can forward information to: businesses or other organizations you are involved with. Ask any businesses you know with an email newsletter or other marketing budgets to promote the organization 1 or 2 times a year. your neighbors. This works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

That said, the number of businesses fighting for their attention in their inboxes and on their news feeds may have left them feeling a bit fatigued. Now your team can boost your open rates to 37% just by adding video! Besides, think about how far your team has come! Not to worry.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Stellar stewardship can deepen your relationship with your partners and help build trust in your area of expertise that in turn translates to positive funds for your mission. We’ve borrowed basic business principles to help you steward your partners like a boss ! In business, customer retention is “big business.”

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As the coach of a youth sports team or the leader of a school-affiliated academic bowl team, you know that there are some aspects of team fundraising that make it different—and often more challenging—than other types of fundraising. Team members can personalize their efforts. Team members can personalize their efforts.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who fit donors specific requirements, shepherd those students through the application process, manage scholarship review committees, disburse awards, and report back to the donors how their funds were utilized. Ask for opinions and referrals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The platform was rushed into a live beta, since its team wanted to go public in a time when the chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter leadership was front and center in our collective headspace. Post News, a Twitter alternative, gets funding from a16z by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Don’t be afraid to reach out to event sponsors, grant funders and major donors to see if they’d be willing to work with you on how unspent funds are allocated, such as event table sponsorships. If fundraising via events, instead find creative ways to continue to raise funds virtually.”. “We Again, get creative and just GO!

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Whether you have inherited accounting software or are tasked with a business decision to choose a new solution that fits your needs, they both face their own challenges. It is just as important for partners to be good stewards of user data and comply with the same standards as your fund accounting software.

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sgEngage

JULY 3, 2024

A Director of Finance at a nonprofit shared this sentiment with us during our research on the value of AI in fund accounting. AI in fund accounting has the power to drive deeper analysis and increased efficiency across your nonprofit accounting team, with the right safeguards for accuracy and privacy. Not bookkeeping.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. million in “expansion” funding from Aruwa Capital, a Nigeria-based early-stage growth equity and gender-lens fund. . When Dada launched the platform, its target audience was solely businesses.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Until you can surround yourself with people who want to help, you’re going to be a team of one. And financial breakdowns are helpful as you manage your finances each month, especially when funds are tight and you need to see exactly where every penny is going. That’s important when you’re a team of one. But take heart!

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sgEngage

JUNE 26, 2024

Over the past year, I’ve spoken with more than 100 heads of schools and industry leaders about the independent school business model. We’re experiencing multiple stressors related to the independent school business model. I’ve yet to hear a single head of school say anything remotely similar. Every state in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sponsored by GalaBid – a digital fundraising platform that helps thousands of nonprofits raise funds through live and online silent auctions, digital raffles, and donations. Online silent auctions help non-profits raise funds effectively without having to organize a full-scale in-person event.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Secretary of Homeland Security Jacob Wood Co-Founder & Executive Board Chairman Team Rubicon Team Rubicon became one of the most impactful nonprofits under Wood’s leadership. Team Rubicon is widely known for its innovation and unique culture. Following four years in the U.S. Following four years in the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its been gradual, but generative AI models and the apps they power have begun to measurably deliver returns for businesses. It allows employees of all technical backgrounds to quickly generate personalized, accurate answersand even create their own no-code tools to make the agents work better for the specifics of their jobs and businesses.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For years, weve used language from for-profit businesses to explain nonprofit organizational activity. There are undoubtedly for-profit business practices that we in the charity world use every day for the benefit of our employees and missions. If you can establish a positive ROM, then you have a project worth pushing forward.

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