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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Unlike for-profit businesses, churches are not owned but rather are run by pastors, a church board, other governing bodies, and staff who are often a combination of paid employees and volunteers. Unlike a business’s revenue, these assets either have donor restrictions or are considered unrestricted funds. What is Fund Accounting?

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AI in Action: Deploying Responsible, Effective, and Trustworthy AI

sgEngage

. “At this stage, one of the barriers to widespread AI deployment is no longer the technology itself; rather, it’s a set of challenges that ironically are far more human: ethics, governance, and human values.”— For example, let’s say you’re building a CRM to track relationships with your donors. That’s rules-based programming.

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Overcoming the Government-Nonprofit Dependency

ASU Lodestar Center

Federal, state and local governments increasingly depend on Social Service nonprofit organizations and, because of that dependency, have been willing to help fund them. government funding accounts for approximately one-third of the annual revenue received by nonprofit organizations, primarily through grants and contracts.

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Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

sgEngage

do not feel their education was worth the cost, colleges and universities have to work harder and smarter to recruit, enroll, and retain students. Declining enrollment leads to not only decreased tuition revenue but also diminished government funding and reduced philanthropic support.

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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

ASU Lodestar Center

Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization. Evaluation can be painful.

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

Individual donors and foundations increasingly view data “ as the fuel for innovation and social change.” Data is critical in evaluating programs, demonstrating the need for new services, and helping nonprofits build an airtight case for support. Based on that, funders may assume that AANHPI populations are universally well off.

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Training Nonprofit Staff & Volunteers Effectively in 5 Steps

Get Fully Funded

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. Now ask yourself, what changes are going to stay attractive for your donors? Not wanting to end all donor communication, you shifted into email and social media, but it was all DIY.

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