The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes Building a Strong Future: A Step-by-Step Guide to Non-Profit Planning Feeling overwhelmed by the challenges your non-profit faces? Many non-profits struggle without a solid plan in place. So, why do so many non-profits find themselves in hot water? You’re not alone.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This is especially the case during economic downturns, recessions, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic–when employment plummeted rapidly while some businesses posted record profits. Research in the for-profit sector has found that CEOs might make anywhere from six times to six thousand times as much as the median worker. How do U.S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Some of the main goals of the implementation meeting are to produce a consensus on the definition of: The chart of accounts. This blog will provide some suggestions on building your chart of accounts in a manner that is practical and that will satisfy as many users of the financial statements as possible.

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sgEngage

JULY 27, 2021

While diversifying campaigns and the swift pivot to virtual lowered some fundraising and participation expectations, reduced overheads from the cancellation of in-person events may have helped virtual event profitability. million for the National Health Service in the UK while completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday.

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Blue Fox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Here's how we describe it: In the for-profit world, classes are often used for cost center or location-based tracking of revenue and expenses. The management needs to see what stores are profitable, right? As a general rule, class labels and categories should be DIFFERENT from line items in your Chart of Accounts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2009

Come check out the Craigslist Foundation's Nonprofit Boot Camp on June 20th in Berkeley, CA. Darius Dunlap went to Boot Camp for the first time in 2004, the year he and his wife and founded the Square Peg Foundation. Photo credit: Photo of me writing on a flip chart at last year's Boot Camp by Jon Bauer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. A lot of the ideas resonate with.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Here are seven ways your team can make sure your nonprofit has a strong financial foundation this year. Do they give you the information you need?

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Tableau

JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this year, we hosted our first virtual Tableau Foundation Summit to bring together our community of non-profit data leaders. We also celebrated longtime Tableau Foundation partner, Community Solutions , for receiving a $100M grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Charting a digital future.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

But a nonprofit business plan is necessary to attract major donors, foundations, Board members, and other potential partners. Unlike for-profit businesses, you are not just selling your potential partners on the numbers and inviting them to make a profit. Management and Organizational Charts. Use only text.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2019

posted by Susan Nusall Director of Volunteers at Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education/Arizona Bar Foundation. It’s all about inviting all staff, including our Executive Director, to the trainings so we had buy-in across the Foundation. What comes to mind when you hear Diagnostic Survey? Words of advice?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

By applying FinOps principles, companies have an opportunity to significantly improve their gross margins and chart a path towards profitability, as well as alleviate investor concerns around revenue metrics. Gross margins are a board-level concern.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Adding Conflict Resolution Points To Your Social Media Policy: This includes creating a flow chart for dealing with an online conflict situation. Its focus is on advancing the full capability of individuals to communicate and engage in cyberspace in a responsible and accountable way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I finally had an opportunity to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor face-to-face. I first came across their thinking and work on building social networks for social change via the resources section on the Barr Foundation web site back in 2006. Later, I found the chart in Net Gains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. Leap of Reason offers toolkits for boards, nonprofits, and foundations on “do it yourself” outcomes based measurement. The skills are out there.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2023

There is a trickle-down effect from innovations and regulations of the for-profit sector. Often what’s happening in the for-profit sector gives nonprofit organizations new tools for growth and opportunities to tighten their internal controls. This includes the rise of donor-advised funds (DAFs) and an increase in Community Foundations.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Finance departments and CFOs often focus on project management—which is the technical side of change—making sure all the boxes are checked, and everyone moves along the Gantt chart in an orderly fashion. Nonprofits are rarely going to be able to provide compensation that matches their for-profit counterparts.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 31, 2023

This $400 million investment through the National Funders (The Canadian Red Cross, Community Foundations of Canada, and United Way Centraide Canada) will be used to support Canadian nonprofits to strengthen and transform their operations in post-pandemic recovery. Systems and Processes, apply to Community Foundations of Canada (CFC).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Zan McColloch-Lussier, a lifelong non profiteer, advises nonprofits and foundations on communications & social media through Mixtape Communications.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Obviously “profit” is a slippery slope, but in most scenarios, it isn’t the community at large that would financially benefit off of change. They also create the foundation for a community-driven strategy.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But I also was director of a large family foundation. What it means is there are 100,000 grant-making foundations out there right now in the U.S. These are the private foundations that you can access, 100,000 of those. Secondly, community foundations, which, in the U.S., They have corporate foundation arms.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

Foundations (12%). As the above chart illustrates, nearly half of the financial engagement between the U.S. Included in the tabulation of capital investments are Program Related Investments (PRIs) by foundations to support their philanthropic activities. Total Net Economic Engagement with Developing Countries, 2010 2.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. Global Fund for Community Foundations / Johannesburg, (Int.) Impact Foundary / McClellan Park, CA / $200. Philanthropy Southwest / Colorado Springs, CO / $1,100.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2009

Innovation intensive industries such as biotechnology, ICTs and super-semiconductors are the foundations of the new economy." In our work these days with non-profits and large government agencies alike, changing the culture within is often harder than any technical implementation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 12, 2014

The two are, however, extremely different in Turkey, and nonprofit organizations avoid using any term that will associate them with the for-profit sector such as “sector”, “client” and “marketing”. According to the Charities Aid Foundation''s (CAF) Global Giving Index 2013, the U.S.

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fusionSpan

AUGUST 7, 2024

This article will provide an overview of Tableau and its benefits, particularly for non-profit organizations and associations. Since its foundation in 2003, and having been acquired by Salesforce in 2019, Tableau’s mission has remained the same: to help people see and understand their data and empower them to drive change with data.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

My second blog dealt with setting up the chart of accounts in a nonprofit environment. Let's say that the XYZ Foundation awards your nonprofit a grant for 2011. In QuickBooks, set up a customer called "XYZ Foundation." " Next, set up a job underneath the XYZ Foundation called "2011 XYZ Foundation Grant."

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Lewis Foundation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

We must bravely confront this problem with whatever tools are available to us now while we still have a once-in-a-generation chance to shape the foundation of what is being built. Companies that stress internal diversity are more profitable, as they can successfully appeal to more diverse markets. It also makes economic sense.

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Tableau

JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this year, we hosted our first virtual Tableau Foundation Summit to bring together our community of non-profit data leaders. We also celebrated longtime Tableau Foundation partner, Community Solutions , for receiving a $100M grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Charting a digital future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design. It's a must-read. Britt Bravo covers it here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2017

Collectively, the Network connects over 800,000 NGOs in 236 countries and territories to donations of products, services, time and funding, and helps more than 150 technology companies, foundations, corporations, and philanthropists scale their philanthropic programs. Over the past 10 years, this group has delivered more than $7.6

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

They may give because of a foundation’s proximity, or because they feel moved by the cause. To get started, have your bookkeeper set up your accounting system to show Development Profit & Loss as a separate cost center. Nonprofits are harder to run than for-profits. Why is this important? How can you calculate this?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2023

Managing Financial Stewardship During Technological Advancement There is a trickle-down effect from innovations and regulations of the for-profit sector. Often what’s happening in the for-profit sector gives nonprofit organizations new tools for growth and opportunities to tighten their internal controls.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

Fails when they choose to market a product, but they leave out certain communities because they don’t believe those communities are sufficiently profitable to be worth selling to. There were foundations that were told that it was against their fiduciary duty to make investments in social enterprises.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is what you need to know to strengthen your financial savvy and keep your nonprofit on a strong financial foundation. Nonprofit financial management is the process of managing the money that flows through your not-for-profit organization. What is Nonprofit Financial Management?

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