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6 Tips for Quick Response During a Time of Need

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Structure Donation Forms Around Specific Relief Efforts One way to mobilize support quickly is by structuring your donation forms to highlight specific relief efforts. You may decide to create a designated disaster relief fund or ask donors to donate to a general fund.

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Strong boards make strong nonprofits: What you need to know

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That’s why setting up the board’s structures and bylaws with care is one of the most important things a nonprofit founder can do. The board agreement is signed by board members and spells out their responsibilities, while the bylaws lay out the composition, structure, and rules under which the board operates.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? But is this the right question?

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60-Day Guide to Launching Your Fund Accounting Extensibility Project

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Having a fund accounting system can significantly streamline your finance function. Tools like Power Automate and Power BI can extend your fund accounting and transform your nonprofit accounting software into an even more powerful tool. You have automation, workflows, and dashboards immediately after implementation.

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Scott Resumes Giving Away Millions In Large Chunks

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Coastal Enterprises in Brunswick, Maine received $25 million, the Nonprofit Finance Fund was awarded $22 million, and Craft3 in Seattle announced it received $15 million. LISC leaders will determine the specifics of how the new funding will be used in the coming weeks. million shares of her Amazon stock.

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What counts as racial equity funding?  

Candid

Why and how Candid updated our racial equity funding site . The nationwide racial reckoning triggered by the 2020 murder of George Floyd has resulted in a dramatic increase in funding for racial equity. The result is a refreshed site that gives a more complete picture of past funding and allows for stronger comparisons over time.

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

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Identify the specific functionality needs of your organization, such as a segmented chart of accounts for accurate fund accounting and whether the software was built for organizations like yours. This document will help you be better prepared when evaluating the potential vendors, easily eliminating those that don’t meet the requirements.

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