Blue Fox

AUGUST 14, 2022

Introducing the Chart of Accounts (COA) Are you ready to nerd out on nonprofit accounting? Introducing the Chart of Accounts (COA) - the foundational accounting tool every nonprofit leader needs to get right for maximum financial insight and awareness. What is a Chart of Accounts? It’s just that important.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience is utilizing the data you collect about their giving trends to inform your future fundraising decisions. . A big part of this is understanding and leveraging data to inform any changes they make to the donor experience.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Once again, it’s time for annual reporting! Are you ready to level up your annual report to highlight the true value of your association? Learn how to refine your annual report to reflect your staff’s hard work and your organization’s accomplishments. Make your report stand out with the right tools.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Blackbaud recently announced the end of support of a few applications hosted in their Citrix environments, including Crystal Reports (CT). While there are standard reports built in Raiser’s Edge, if you need to create custom and specialized reports, you would have previously had to use Crystal Reports for Blackbaud.

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Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Topping the charts of most-read Candid blogs of 2022: the overhead myth. An open grant report to MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett by Ann Mei Chang of Candid. The data/crisis catch-22: How the pandemic created a social sector data gap by Cathleen Clerkin and Anna Koob of Candid. by Sarah Willey.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Unfortunately, social sector data has also been impacted. Staff working long hours responding to multiple crises have little time and energy for data collection and dissemination. This creates a data/crisis catch-22: While it’s important to have recent data when managing a crisis, it’s also harder to get.

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Charity Village

JANUARY 13, 2022

YMCA WorkWell has released their Insights to Impact Report, which aims to address questions such as: How has the pandemic impacted employee well-being in our communities? The data, collected between September […]. The data, collected between September […]. Has employee well-being evolved since the start of COVID-19?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. To do so, it’s easy to assume that the best place to start is with as much data as possible. Instead, we rely on a data set called the Foundation 1000. foundations in a given year (see chart below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2013

But being a nonprofit data is not just about being an Excel ninja, it is also about visualizing data and being a chart master. When Ann told me she has lots of secrets and time saving tips for charts and offered to write this guest post, I was thrilled. Charts can be one of your strongest communication tools.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The annual report has an empty page with the heading “Full-Year Financials.” While perhaps not as demanding as your other reporting duties, the annual report can be a chance to focus on telling an engaging financial impact story. What’s an Annual Report even for? Except for one last thing. That Variance column?

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sgEngage

MAY 3, 2024

The right technology can be like an assistant, automating tasks and putting important data at your fingertips. A fund accounting system with a segmented chart of accounts enables you to build systemic controls into each specific grant to ensure any booked financial activity is compliant with available budgets and contract restrictions.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2023

How to easily manage and assign seating at your fundraising event Seating charts at benefit auctions are not for the faint of heart. You don’t have to dread the seating chart with Greater Giving’s automated table seating tools. The post A New Way to Simplify Fundraising Seating Charts appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. In case you missed our webinar, feel free to watch it here and learn how to create annual reports that rock! These elements can also increase engagement with your report when shared online.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that time of year – time to create your nonprofit annual report. An annual report is a great way to give both donors and the community an overview of what your nonprofit accomplished during the year. Let’s start with the purpose of your annual report. And an annual report is a great way to do that.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2024

These are just some of the findings from Candid’s newly released 2024 Nonprofit Compensation Report , the most comprehensive study on executive compensation in the social sector. In addition to these insights, the report provides information to help nonprofits benchmark compensation to ensure competitive salaries for their employees.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Many nonprofit professionals greet the annual reporting process with apprehension. This is because nonprofit annual reports have a bad reputation. However, you don’t need to dread the creation of your annual report! This post is designed to guide your organization through the nonprofit annual report creation process.

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Candid

JUNE 24, 2024

Funders are increasingly using demographic data about the staff and leadership of the nonprofits they support to assess their impact and reach. At the same time, many of these same funders seek best practices in how to glean meaningful insights from this data. Identify questions you’re interested in using the data to answer.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But without the right systems in place, administrative tasks like pulling grant reporting can be time-intensive and error-prone. Your food bank needs accounting software that can help you manage a variety of funding sources while also helping you make strategic, data-driven decisions based on inventory and forecasted community demand.

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The MatrixFiles

MAY 23, 2024

of MatrixMaxx , a leading Association Management System (AMS) that helps trade associations and professional societies manage their organizations better, have great member journeys, and be higher performing through data. These highly visual dashboard elements will give staff a new perspective on membership data and trends.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Data hygiene projects This can range from cleaning and completing Salesforce, spreadsheet, CRM or other databases for stakeholders. The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform. that outlines departments, titles and names.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2023

How can nonprofits showcase their year-end results in a digital report? What should you include in your year-end report? Where and how should nonprofits share their report? That’s where reporting comes in. Reporting on your end-of-year giving results is a great way to help your nonprofit stand out from competitors.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Nonprofit annual reports play an important role as we head into the end of the fiscal year or the onset of giving season. Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact. DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI).

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2024

Nonprofit annual reports play an important role as we head into the end of the fiscal year or the onset of giving season. Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

Source: Gemma Correll – I Love Charts. Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets , but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Reporting is a key aspect of nonprofit financial management. Essentially, this term refers to the process of pulling your documented financial data and communicating it to stakeholders. Besides promoting accountability at your organization, financial reporting is legally required according to government regulations for nonprofits.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Queries and reporting tools will provide an efficient means of building a list of relevant activities. This effective guide will be a comprehensive blueprint to working at your organization, including links to relevant resources, steps for data entry, and flow charts outlining who is responsible for which tasks. Likely no.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Whether its for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data in an easily understandable way. or relying on (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint. For many organizations, that's probably all they'll ever need.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One of the major differences between Salesforce and BBCRM is the capability and intuitive interface of native reporting. Let’s start with native reporting. Not only is the need to utilize an auxiliary reporting tool cumbersome, but Blackbaud has also discontinued support for Crystal Reports. a relational DB, like BBCRM).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read on to discover the value of data-driven storytelling and how this key feature increases trust and enables your nonprofit to drive more revenue. By applying simple information-sharing strategies, you can appeal to donors who, in today’s dynamic world, are more sophisticated and demand data when deciding how to allocate funds for donation.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Nonprofits rely on raw data to learn about supporters, track the success of marketing and fundraising campaigns, and measure program progress. Using this data, your organization can determine which metrics are best for measuring your social impact and illustrating all of your work’s tangible achievements. Identify key data to share.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You need data collection and data structure skills, not just a data entry person—someone who knows how your organization operates and the best ways for information to be delivered. This person shouldn’t be the clerical or data entry person. Name a point of contact who sees the big picture. Think about the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

Source: Juice Lab Chart Chooser. Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best?

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. They don’t come with any direction or reporting requirements.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

The best part is that you already have access to a major part of the solution – your data! That’s why it’s also important to view behavioral data alongside survey data. One of our customers uncovered this insight after digging into their data. Which reports are necessary and which ones are outdated?

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fusionSpan

JUNE 1, 2023

Two prime examples of no-code or configuration based Salesforce data tools are List Views and Report Builder. When you’re working with Salesforce, though, really understanding the differences between List Views and Reports is crucial. List Views List Views are a powerful tool for organizing and displaying data in Salesforce.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It is a technical handshake that allows one system to request pre-determined data from another system and get a response in a standardized format. They can handle complex queries, large amounts of data, and real-time updates. You don’t have to download files, upload them to your system, or manually enter data.

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