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Nonprofit Accounting
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The Money Strings Attached: Navigating Donor-Imposed Restrictions
Explore the complex world of donor restrictions in nonprofit accounting, including financial accountability, fund allocation challenges, and strategies for better donor communication.
Nonprofit Accounting
8
min read
The Money Strings Attached: Navigating Donor-Imposed Restrictions
Explore the complex world of donor restrictions in nonprofit accounting, including financial accountability, fund allocation challenges, and strategies for better donor communication.
Nonprofit Accounting
8
min read
The Money Strings Attached: Navigating Donor-Imposed Restrictions
Explore the complex world of donor restrictions in nonprofit accounting, including financial accountability, fund allocation challenges, and strategies for better donor communication.
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Nonprofit Accounting
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The Money Strings Attached: Navigating Donor-Imposed Restrictions
Explore the complex world of donor restrictions in nonprofit accounting, including financial accountability, fund allocation challenges, and strategies for better donor communication.
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March 28, 2025
Nonprofit Accounting
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The Money Strings Attached: Navigating Donor-Imposed Restrictions
Explore the complex world of donor restrictions in nonprofit accounting, including financial accountability, fund allocation challenges, and strategies for better donor communication.
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How to Use Fund Accounting to Track Your Grants
Being awarded a grant is a great honor for nonprofits. The application process takes hard work, and there is often a lot of competition. But what happens after your organization…
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It’s important when you use nonprofit email marketing or social posts that you establish rapport by engaging in consistent messaging.
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Every nonprofit wants to build an audience of people who care deeply about the nonprofit’s message. The most meaningful relationships they can make are ones that last years, where the…
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Using Facebook Live for Your Fundraiser or Other Nonprofit Events
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One of the first things people should learn when they’re thinking of starting a nonprofit is understanding the difference between normal accounting and fund accounting. Because nonprofit organizations focus on…
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Year-End Closing Questions
Every January we hear some frequently asked questions from our nonprofit and church customers who are logging transactions and closing the books for the previous year. Since it can be…
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GAAP for Nonprofits
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