Entries Tagged as 'Nonprofit'
Last week I revisited LinkedIn and updated my information. It got me thinking. I know my favorite head hunters like LinkedIn, but is this an effective way to network people for charity purposes? This week a board member working on a grant required some demographic data on each board member. I guess the donor wants [...]
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3. Marion Conway—Consultant to Nonprofit’s writes about, “Accountability and Transparency for nonprofits” and references Guidestar’s Accountability and Transparency article. Source: Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants #38-Nonprofit Management and Leadership | Aspiration I followed this jewel this morning and ended up at Guidestar.org site reading their article, Paper-Thin Transparency. In that article Guidestar defines transparency as: At [...]
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I just got through making a comprehensive budget/cash forecast for our local Habitat affiliate. I made a budget for affiliate two years ago but I was dissatisfied with the results. I plugged the historical values from our income statement into a spreadsheet and after a few calculations I plugged the resulting values back into QuickBooks. [...]
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This week’s edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, which is a joint edition with the Giving Carnival, is now up at Donor Power Blog and Tactical Philanthropy. You can read it either place. The selected posts are the same, but Jeff and Sean added their own comments to their versions. The posts take a [...]
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I am not sure it has much value for SBS customers. I setup a collaboration site and tried to envision our Habitat for Humanity affiliate using it. Although Office Live Collaboration looks like it has the potential to do the job, it would require a lot of customization to get board members to look at [...]
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I got distracted again! The Development Dirctor for our Habitat affiliate was complaining about the stale content on the affiliate’s website. For some time I have been thinking about the appropriate format for a charity website. I have begun to believe that a blog style website is a natural fit for charity websites. The social [...]
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This week I had a need to determine the payoff dates for some mortgages and along the way I found the “EDATE” function in Excel. You give the function the start date and the number of months and it returns the payoff date.
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I got an email recently from someone who was trying to import QuickBooks IIF transactions. Although I could not help this person with the problem, I did get motivated to write an Excel macro to import IIF transactions. One of the more tedious tasks I do as Treasurer for our Habitat affiliate is inputting payment data [...]
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FolderShareTM allows you to create a private peer-to-peer network that will help you to synchronize files across multiple devices and access or share files with colleagues and friends. You no longer need to send large files via email, burn them to CDs/DVDs and mail them, or upload them to a website. FolderShare allows you to [...]
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Solutions from PC Magazine: Before You Give Away Your Old PC Here is a nice article that outlines the process of cleaning up a PC so that you can safely donate it.
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I copied this from the SmallbizIT newsgroup so I could find this easier. This summarizes a lot of what’s been going on with the latest version of QuickBooks. Enjoy! Summary of Quickbook problems The following is information I have from various sources on some problems with the Quickbook programs. Where I have comments from others [...]
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Welcome to efile.form990.org The 990 Online, developed by the nonprofit Urban Institute, provides nonprofit organizations with a simple and completely free way to prepare their returns and electronically file them with the IRS. This is my second year using efile.form990.org to file the 990 return. It took me about four hours to enter, find the [...]
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Recently I was working at our local Habitat office and I noticed that our PCs could not see each other. After some research I discovered that they were using some unusual IP addresses(i.e. not private ips like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x). Technically the PCs were on different subnets. I asked the guy who should know and [...]
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