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How Nonprofits Can Avoid Buyer’s Remorse for Fund Accounting Software

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Involve your staff by developing a steering committee comprised of different members of the team who interact with your system, including your accounting, technology, and program teams. Is my fund structure correct? Assess your organization’s wants and needs before you even start talking to potential vendors. Don’t do this in a vacuum.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

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As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Data gives us context. How do I care for my data? That’s okay!

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). Participants can be placed into the rooms automatically (randomly) or you can manually assign people to different groups. Here’s some ideas for different questions for virtual icebreakers for nonprofits ). There are two ways to do brainstorming. What is a challenge?

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QuickBooks for Nonprofits PRO TIP:  How to Use Classes for Painless Grant Writing

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#nerdalert) Using this method, you can allocate a percentage of staff salaries, general overhead, and direct program costs to each program WITHOUT adding a gazillion lines to your Chart of Accounts. As a general rule, class labels and categories should be DIFFERENT from line items in your Chart of Accounts.

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The One Record Myth in K–12 School Software

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Your school has a wealth of vital information—enrollment applications, student records, financial records, donor and alumni records—and stakeholders with different requirements and abilities. We asked ourselves: “What if there’s a better way to structure our resources?” We took two steps: 1.

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Integration: The Ultimate Solution for Nonprofit Data Silos

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The challenge is due in part to data silos , or groups of raw data isolated from different departments. Often, organizational structures within individual facilities and departments create their own data platforms and workflows that are not aligned with one another.

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Five myths and misconceptions about Candid’s grant data

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Once Candid collects data from these sources, we clean, code, structure, and enhance the data to make it more accessible and useful. We also link grants from different funders to the same recipient to visualize the broader funding ecosystem. The chart below shows how the percentage of our data sources shift as more 990 data comes in.

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