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G2 Crowd Announces “G2 Gives” to Aid Nonprofit Software Purchasing Decisions
G2 Crowd, a business software review platform, today announced G2 Gives, a new program designed to bring both transparency and confidence to nonprofit software purchasing decisions while donating funds to help participating organizations deliver on their mission.
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Overall Charitable Giving to Nonprofits Down in September
The Blackbaud Index today reported that overall charitable giving to nonprofits decreased 3.5% and online giving increased 7.5% for the three months ending September 2015 as compared to the same period in 2014.
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Infographic: Nonprofit Finance & Accounting Study from Abila
Abila has announced findings from its Nonprofit Finance & Accounting Study – Trends and Challenges Facing Nonprofit Finance Professionals. The study explores key trends affecting nonprofit finance and accounting departments, as well as key challenges nonprofit finance professionals face daily. It also looks at the specific trends and challenges for three different generations (Millennials, Generation Xers, and Boomers) of nonprofit finance professionals.
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Read more...Infographic: Nonprofit Accounting Insights and Analysis Survey
The 2015-2016 Nonprofit Accounting Insights & Analysis Survey sought information central to nonprofit accounting management, including the amount of time spent inside and outside an organization’s financial system pulling and manipulating data, as well as specific software features used to manage nonprofits.
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Independent Sector Recognizes Nonprofit Leaders
Independent Sector (IS) is pleased to award Michael Brown, co-founder and CEO of City Year, with the 2015 John W. Gardner Leadership Award and Julieta Garibay, campaigns director of United We Dream, with the 2015 American Express NGen Leadership Award for their outstanding service and leadership in addressing some of the charitable sector’s most pressing issues. Brown and Garibay received their awards today at the conclusion of the 2015 Independent Sector National Conference, “Embark,” in Miami.
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Fidelity Charitable's $2 Million in Grants
This year, Fidelity Charitable reached $2 billion in donor recommended grants about two months earlier than any previous year, beating the record set in 2014. The grants supported more than 81,000 charities.
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Book: How to Be an Effective Board Member
Doing Good Better: How to Be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit Organization (Good Books, now available) is a trusted handbook for nonprofit board member service. Now revised and newly updated with brand-new case studies, it comes packed with even more tips and ideas from the trenches of nonprofit board work. Edgar Stoesz has made Doing Good Better a necessary guidebook for nonprofit board members, no matter their experience level!
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Independent Sector Introduces 2015 American Express NGen Fellows
Independent Sector is pleased to honor the 12 outstanding leaders from IS member organizations that comprise the 2015 American Express NGen Fellows Program. In its seventh year, this selective fellowship program continues to build the next generation of nonprofit and philanthropic leaders as part of IS’ NGen: Moving Nonprofit Leaders from Next to Now initiative.
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Webinar to launch Pro Bono Analytics Initiative
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research, today announced it is launching a new initiative -- Pro Bono Analytics – in an effort to connect analytics experts with non-profit organizations seeking to improve how they achieve greater results by leveraging data and information.
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Green Comma & Werkz Publishing Makes Publishing Dream Reality
As a digital interactive curriculum, (PageWerkz) took advantage of modern technology to add animation, video clips and classroom discussion to engage students in a more interesting and efficient learning process.” (Dr. Meera Chandrasekhar, University of Missouri)
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