Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Council on Foundations’ 2023 Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Report Key Findings (for which Candid provided data analysis) offer a broad picture: Median full-time staff salaries for select roles rose 5.49% between 2022 and 2023, i as reported by a non-representative panel of 514 grantmaking organizations.

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Rate Survey Roles Director 106

sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It may be time to look for a purpose-built fund accounting system when you begin managing a variety of different funds and restrictions, when you have trouble getting a financial picture of your entire organization, or when you need to expand your internal controls past the functionality of your current system. Flexible chart of accounts.

System 52

System Organization Chart Fund 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity. For datamaking, visuals like charts, diagrams, or maps are important for more than data collection.

Data 105

Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 105

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While most nonprofits find funding from a variety of sources, one of the staples of charitable support comes in the form of grants. Consequently, nonprofit professionals should be well versed in crafting and compiling well-written grant proposals. If you referenced any visuals – pictures, charts, tables, graphs, etc. –

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Proposal Grant Money Summary 87

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting.

Blackbaud 86

Blackbaud Chart Denver Nonprofit 86

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

One study found that 86 percent of respondents believed that having a strategic plan positively impacted revenue generation through grants, donors, events, and other avenues. A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Seems reasonable, right?

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Examples Guide Model Los Angeles 119

Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Paint a picture of your organizational structure so the reader can understand quickly what your nonprofit looks like from an operational point of view. Donors don’t like duplication of services, and getting grants will be tough if you can’t articulate how your approach is unique. Management and Organizational Charts.

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Business Nonprofit Summary Homeless 124

sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

Be Intentional About What Data You Collect and Where With applications integrated directly into your grants management system and partnerships with organizations such as Candid, the days of pages-long grant applications are behind us. Check out our blog post, Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists.

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Story Impact Trend Grant 73

sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Whether you are part of a housing authority or a parks and recreation department, you need to quickly differentiate revenue from fees for a specific program and grants that require detailed reporting. A single source of truth for everyone in your government agency can also enable you to administer more grants without adding staff.

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Government Fund Software Grant 75

Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Custom photo stock This is a fun excuse for an intern to run around the office and any physical sites to take good pictures of work in action. Google Ad Grant account management The Google Ad Grant is part of the Google.com/nonprofits program offering $10k/month in search ads. that outlines departments, titles and names.

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International Program Ideas Data 52

sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

Include expected grants , donations, events, fees for services, and any other revenue streams. Include notes when appropriate : Don’t take for granted that key stakeholders fully understand underlying budget assumptions. A lynchpin grant doesn’t come through, or a generous donor makes a large contribution out of the blue.

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Process Create Stream Review 95

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income. Tip 2: Review your upcoming funding requests, fundraising goals, and grant applications to make sure you are including an appropriate allocation for your indirect costs. Identify the top line for each channel. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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Foundation Build Fund Review 85

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Designated Funds: Funds donated or granted for a specific purpose. Income types that are unique to nonprofits include grants, donations, endowment funds, and government funding. . Nonprofit Accounting Basic #4: Know the “Big Picture” of Your Organization’s Finances. Think of this in terms of a pie chart, not a donor list.

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Team Nonprofit Profit Fund 77

Everyaction

JANUARY 31, 2018

FALL Build Beautiful Charts & Graphs with Data Visualization on EveryAction Whether it's for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data. Often, this means settling for (pretty ugly) charts with data estimates made in Excel or Powerpoint, but no more!

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Tools Chart Grant PowerPoint 43

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. Track your grants and pledges all in one place.

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Advocacy Offline Gartner Nonprofit 88

sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income. Tip 2: Review your upcoming funding requests, fundraising goals, and grant applications to make sure you are including an appropriate allocation for your indirect costs. Identify the top line for each channel. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

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Foundation Build Fund Review 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Accessibility Copyright Law Library 205

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

Report 85

Report Template Org Nonprofit 85

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Be ready to paint the picture of where you’re going and then motivate folks to join you for the journey. Explain what needs to be done and how it fits into the big picture. I think because we take it for granted. A leader who can’t manage their time is distracted and disorganized, always working on things at the last minute.

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Skills Leadership Director Nonprofit 119

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other hand, new grant opportunities came to light, and if you were good at identifying them, you made your case to individual donors. What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. Some went virtual, and others simply closed.

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Train Training Volunteer Effective 105

Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Funds typically come from three main sources: major gifts , corporations, and grants — with the bulk of the money coming from major gifts. Typically, these prospects include individual donors, corporations, and grant funders. Money raised during a capital campaign can only be used for that project.

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Campaign Phase Guide Gift 75

BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A dimensional chart of accounts structure creates a separate field in your database for each bit of expense information rather than cramming all the information into one account code field. Dimensions also enable your accounting software to run faster by streamlining the chart of accounts. Highlight key performance indicators.

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Report Ratio Comparison Chart 40

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

GuideStar has made a big step towards its 2020 strategic goal to provide a much more detailed picture of each organization's charitable work. There's a new section on "Charting Impact" — five questions that probe the results of a charity's work.

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Impact Profile Charity Metrics 36

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2019

They’ll stay involved longer and make a deeper commitment when they understand how their work impacts the big picture. When making decisions on buying supplies for their program or talking about the organization at a donor visit, they’ll think about the big picture because they actually understand it. Increased Contributions.

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Metrics Nonprofit Empowerment Picture 37

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

Granted, there are very real limits to the time and resources that a volunteer board can give. The big picture takeaway from our 2012 survey results is stark: for the fourth straight year, demand continues to rise while funding support is shrinking (or remains unpredictable, at best). So what does that mean for the board?

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Research Survey Stats Fund 85

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Many are founded on solving long- standing issues and they get into a cycle of awarding grants to the same organizations year after year. The chart below from Candid.org, shows that disaster relief is not new, but often times the organizations that focus on disaster relief can rally quickly.

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Design Technology Disaster Grant 27

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta is a relatively small organization, with 46 employees, $1B AUM, and they issued $128 million in grants to over 2,700 NPOs in 2018. This data is helpful, but simply reporting on the activities that grant funds support does not give the full picture. For example, what did the children learn?

Impact 28

Impact Help Foundation Atlanta 28

NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. They are attempting to get a big picture view of the impact of interventions children receive not only in school but through all programs: afterschool, college preparation, etc.

Data 36

Data Conference Report Proposal 36

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

You can draw pictures in OneNote with your mouse (or with your finger/stylus on a touchscreen) if you're a visual note-taker. In addition to your sketches, you can also insert pictures, charts, tables, documents, videos, and more into your notes. The latest version of OneNote supports a wide range of multimedia formats.

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Sharepoint Blackberry Phone Library 73

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture. Recommendations for Implementation. This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector.

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Build Arizona America Iowa 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But until I started talking big picture with Rob, I don't know that I was truly thinking out the big issues. What I particularly like about this post is that he's turning a critical eye to something many of us take for granted. The weekly calls and the Slack channel in preparation for writing the book was incredibly impactful for me.

Museum 27

Museum Roles Active Activism 27

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This helps your nonprofit get an even more accurate picture of how your donor base is performing! The features of Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud include: Grants management Program management Customizable dashboards Automation and workflow Pricing For pricing information, visit Salesforce’s website.

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Software Effective Nonprofit Collaboration 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Open standards (see picture above) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. Where they become difficult to achieve is at the level of organizational culture, grant-making priorities, and leadership. I understand fully that this conversation has been launched on many occasions over the years.

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Open Adopt Collaboration Social Network 50

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example. These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials.

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Adobe PDF PowerPoint Files 36

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example. These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials.

Adobe 36

Adobe PDF PowerPoint Files 36

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2017

Whether it’s a picture of people being served or a colorful chart showing the total funds raised, visuals can strike a chord that words alone often miss. Sometimes, it’s hard to limit the impact your organization has to a few sentences in a grant proposal. Oftentimes, visuals can speak louder than words.

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Volunteer Story NPO Images 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

As everyone finished, they brought them up to the flip chart. Student-led grant committee program with University of Central Florida. We found that many people only understand a small part of the Foundation based off of their experiences to date, but they don’t understand the big picture. Everyone had quite a few to share.

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