Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. A project charter is a brief, formal document that concisely articulates the essential details of the project, such as its purpose, scope, goals, and contributors.

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Software Funding Metrics Goals 111

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

That’s why it’s essential to carefully choose the right software solutions to support your operations–the right tool can drive a high ROI for your fundraising efforts. Luckily, there are many nonprofit software solutions designed to meet the unique needs of your organization and help keep you and your staff from getting overwhelmed!

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Software Nonprofit Management CRM 98

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

QuickBooks is depreciating the tags functionality in their accounting software starting March 8. If your nonprofit has chosen to use the tagging feature in QuickBooks to help identify your restricted revenue, this means you will be juggling even more spreadsheets outside of your software. There is a better way.

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Software Nonprofit Finance Management 74

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

With a fund accounting software system designed for nonprofits, you can fully track all your grants, especially restricted grants, in one place. Fund accounting software can allow you to accurately curate grant reports to track restrictions, set budgets, and audit grant awards.

Indirect Cost 115

Indirect Cost Indirect Software Funding 115

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Blackbaud SKY API, or Application Programming Interface, is basically a set of rules that outlines how one piece of software can access data or functionality provided by a separate piece of software. What is an API and how does it work? Whether you know it or not, you use APIs every day. So, what’s next? Go forth and conquer!

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Software Professional Services Grant Management Grant 97

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

These include: Donation receipts and tax acknowledgments: Promptly sending these essential documents shows your professionalism and gratitude while giving donors the information they need for tax purposes. Track these metrics using your nonprofit constituent relationship management system (CRM) and fundraising software.

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Metrics CRM Donation Fundraising 147

CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2025

Use your donation software such as a CRM or even a spreadsheet to track and monitor this essential donor data. If you captured any other pertinent data during the donation process, be sure to document this as well. Did they happen to stumble across your donation page through an online search?

Retainer 109

Retainer Media Donation Software 109

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Each of these documents organizes and summarizes your organizations financial data in a different, actionable way to promote improved internal decision-making and external transparency. Financial reporting is critical for accountability, and financial statements are among the most important reports your nonprofit will create each year.

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Liability Nonprofit Budget Finance 130

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

You can always take advantage of the funder information storage features of your grant research funding software. As I like to say, if you can’t get hold of a document in 10 seconds, it is useless to you. As a new grant writer, I always put this information into an Excel spreadsheet.

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Strategic Plan Grant Writing Budget Grant 230

Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

Document signatures. Youll want to keep informed about updates to the software that may change your workflows. Want to see how Blackbaud Grantmaking is expanding its partnership ecosystem to include better integrations with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT as well as data visualization and document signing partners? Fund accounting.

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Grant Management Management Grant Grants 94

DoJiggy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Increased Efficiency Using event management software can streamline tedious processes such as ticketing, sponsorship coordination, and communication with supporters. Real-Time Updates: Event software can send reminders to attendees or update them about schedule changes. Include key stakeholders in software demos or vendor discussions.

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Software Training Fundraising Goals 78

GrantNews

MARCH 27, 2025

Cloud Storage and Document Sharing: Securely store, access, and collaborate on files from anywhere. Accounting and Bookkeeping: Elect software that tracks expenses, generates reports, and simplifies financial management. Team Communication and Collaboration: Enhance teamwork with real-time messaging, file sharing, and video calls.

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Mentor Award Grant Grants 109

GiveSmart

MARCH 20, 2025

Watch On-Demand Why You Should Use Fundraising Software To Host Your Charity Golf Tournament Using software designed specifically for nonprofit fundraising makes planning, managing, promoting, and day-of for your golf outing go smoothly. Charity golf tournament software works as a centralized planning system.

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Fundraising Software Donation Procurement 52

Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

In case you haven’t heard, 501(c)(3) private foundations are now eligible to receive Microsoft donations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program. Microsoft has made several exciting updates to its software donation program to make it more convenient for all nonprofits to request software donations.

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Software Donation Funding Grant 71

Bonterra

JUNE 25, 2024

Medical grantmaking software Accelerate approvals and ensure compliance Bonterra’s grants software makes it faster and easier for you to process approvals for expanded access, medical education, and research grants programs. Speed up the application review, approval, and drug shipment process for program administrators.

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Software Grant Grants Application 52

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

They are building a free software lending library. The library is building a web interface and scheduling mechanism for the new software lending system this month and plans to have it ready for patrons’ use by January 2014. Patrons will store documents they create on their own computers. The User Experience.

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Software Application Applicant Readiness 61

Peak Proposals

JUNE 1, 2023

Several options exist for storing and adding references to grant proposals or other documents, such as project reports and research papers. A reference manager is a software program that allows you to organize and format your references. date of publication before the name of the publisher or the other way around).

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Proposal Management Grant Grants 52

Wild Apricot

APRIL 20, 2011

You’ll find a variety of tech tools in this 2-part series, from volunteer and member management, to web publishing and document sharing, to back office tasks, project management, and more.( read more ).

Publishing 164

Publishing Management Applicant Application 164

Blackbaud

AUGUST 7, 2024

With the right mindset and planning, you can organize and execute a seamless fund accounting software implementation that meets your needs—both for today and for the future. Before getting into the details of rolling out new fund accounting software, focus on the big picture. Mindset matters. Are they comfortable using new tools?

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Funding Software Training Goals 92

GiveSmart

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With the help of a high-quality fundraising software solution, your nonprofit can stay organized and ensure every important need is met to continue growing and serving your mission. We are breaking down compliance considerations for nonprofit organizations and the ways fundraising software can help streamline compliance management.

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Software Fundraising Nonprofit Finance 52

Blackbaud

APRIL 15, 2024

If you are a grantmaker, you know how important it is to have a reliable and efficient software system that can help you manage your grants, track your impact, and collaborate with your stakeholders. MicroEdge was established back in 1985 and released their Grants Management Software “GIFTS Online” in 2009.

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AI Application Applicant Software 107

Bonterra

JUNE 25, 2024

Medical grants software Medical grants software Bonterra's grantmaking software makes it faster and easier for you to process approvals for medical education, research grants, and expanded access programs. Request a demo Frequently asked questions What is medical grants software?

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Software Grant Grants Grant Management Software 52

Blackbaud

MAY 27, 2024

You want to document your process to save yourself valuable time next budget season. Luckily, your fund accounting software helps you tackle all these situations. Each component of your fund accounting software that holds transaction data provides insight into how best to plan your operations.

Budget 59

Budget Software Funding Utilities 59

AmpliFund

DECEMBER 5, 2023

If you're managing grant funds in spreadsheets and keeping track of program progress and expenditures with documents and emails, you're likely keenly aware of the inherent risks and administrative headaches. You may already recognize that grant management software (GMS) can address these and contribute numerous other benefits.

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Amplifund Grant Management Software Grant Management Software 93

Blackbaud

APRIL 23, 2024

To mitigate risk throughout your grant cycle, you need to know your grantees through relationships and documentation, support their internal controls, and set up a process for whistleblower complaints. Mitigate Risks by Knowing Your Grantees The more you know about your grantees, the better decisions you can make.

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Grant Grants Policy Policies 111

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

Here are some best practices for effectively managing staff turnover and onboarding with your grantmaking software, including some methods of reassigning existing records to new staff members, establishing clear security roles, and building a comprehensive policies and procedures guide to keep everyone on the same page.

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Policy Policies Training Management 103

Blackbaud

JANUARY 17, 2024

Changing a core piece of software at your grantmaking organization is no picnic. But inertia is not an option when your grant programs outgrow your current solution, or your vendor sunsets the software you use, like Salesforce is doing with their grant management software, FoundationConnect. What reports do you pull regularly?

Grant Management 98

Grant Management Management Grant Management Software Grant 98

Blackbaud

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. It provides the ultimate tool to bring all your school software into one system and allows everything to talk to each other. Because I want to know!

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Calendar Software Contract Contracts 111

Blackbaud

MARCH 24, 2025

This is why having your enrollment management system integrated with your tuition and billing software is critical. Then that selection automatically sets up the payment schedule in your billing software and the system sends payment reminders when charges are coming due.

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Contract Contracts Education Software 53

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With an accounting system designed to manage and track balances by fund and subfund across fiscal years and with supported documentation, you can minimize risk by making nonprofit compliance a streamlined process. Here are four ways that accounting software built for nonprofits helps you improve your compliance processes.

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Software Grant Grants Nonprofit 96

GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2025

Writing Needs Improvement: If writing is not your thing, you might consider using a software program. Missing Items: Have all documentation ready and attached before you submit. In fact, you might even need a grant writer. Format Guidelines: Always follow the funder’s guidelines. Check and double check every item.

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Application Applicant Grant Grants 65

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Grant management requires keeping track of multiple moving parts, including deadlines, points of contact, unique application requirements, financial reports, and other documents that vary by grant. . In this post, we will explore four software tools your nonprofit can leverage to better manage your ongoing grant applications: Your CRM.

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Grant Management Software Management Grant Management Software 52

Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications collaboration PDF open source application software newsletters. read more ).

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Retainer Publishing Application Applicant 78

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Identify a place to store documentation, including applications and relevant policies, in a place where everyone has access, such as within the grant record within your fund accounting software or a cloud storage tool. Make these documents available to all stakeholders so everyone can reference them as needed.

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Government Indirect Cost Indirect Grant 116

Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

Of course, these software programs can be used in combination to put together visual communications — so for example, you might want to edit images before laying them out in a brochure or publishing them in a web page. PDFs can also be created from scanned paper documents and forms. The admin fee is $45.

Publishing 83

Publishing Onenote Application Applicant 83

Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Here are some of the key elements that should be included in your AP policy document: Receiving and Approving Invoices Outline how invoices can be received and who should approve them, including backup approvers when staff are out of the office. Clear documentation standards help maintain accuracy and facilitate audits.

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Policy Policies Nonprofit Training 105

Blackbaud

MAY 3, 2024

Fund accounting software with sub-fund capabilities makes it easy to manage multiple budget scenarios, understand encumbrances, and automate your internal controls for the highest level of accuracy and transparency. With fund accounting software, you get an extra level of control over grant expense tracking and reporting.

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Funding Budget Software Grant 104