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Development - Focus on your goals and accomplish with fewer obstacles
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Development Articles
Fundraising for your organization takes commitment, incredible amounts of time, and lots of creativity. These short articles are written to help you focus on your goals and accomplish them with fewer obstacles.
Maximize Fundraising Success With Free Tech Tools and Tips
Read this article for quick, easy and free tips that can help turn your next fundraiser into a success!
Grant Funding: How do we get Funded?
Follow these simple tips to get the grant funding your organization needs to fulfill its mission.
7 Must-Haves for a Successful Fundraising Event
When discussing with nonprofits what constitutes a successful fundraising event, several topics appear and re-appear again and again.
Fundraiser or Friend-Raiser? What's the Purpose of your Special Event?
Special events have many purposes including raising awareness, cultivating donors and introducing potential donors to the organization. Although we naturally want our special events to be successful in every aspect, ultimately their successes can only be truly measured on their intended purposes.
Special Events: Whose Budget is it Anyway?
A special event takes time, planning and a budget—whether it’s a black-tie gala, art festival, walk-a-thon, or neighborhood beautification day. But who really owns the budget—the finance or development department?
Building Circles of Support to Increase Your Annual Campaign Giving
Using word of mouth to build circles of support for your organization will create a positive buzz within the community, increase contributions, improve donor retention and bring new donors to the organization.
Top Ten Best Practices for Annual Giving Campaigns
We have gathered a consensus from our customer base and industry experts to compile a list of the 10 best practices for annual campaigns.
Media Relations: Making Your Annual Campaign Coverable
Your annual campaign is a foundation for gaining funds every year, and you can increase the success of your campaign by properly
publicizing it.
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Financial Management - Keep your accounting department on top of it's game
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Financial Management Articles
These quick reads provide encouragement for keeping your nonprofit or government agency accounting department on top of it’s game. Find out how to maintain accuracy, simplify procedures, and establish a balance within your organization.
Nonprofit Financial Management
Legislation, Enforcement, Donor Skepticism and Fraud: Four Reasons for Greater Transparency in the Public Sector
This bite-size version of our white paper explores four realities that face organizations today and in the future: new legislation, increased enforcement, donor skepticism and, unfortunately, fraud.
Increasing Accountability & Transparency
Trust is a precious commodity in the nonprofit sector—are you doing all you can to keep it?
The Value of Effective Financial Reporting
Telling your organization’s story in a meaningful way can be done with effective financial reporting. This article provides tips for accurately illustrating your organization’s finances through concise reporting for varying audiences.
Special Events: Whose Budget is it Anyway?
A special event takes time, planning and a budget—whether it’s a black-tie gala, art festival, walk-a-thon, or neighborhood beautification day. But who really owns the budget—the finance or development department?
Government Financial Management
Sage Fund Accounting: Total Government Financial Management
A brochure of Sage Fund Accounting for governments in need of built-in system checks of balances, automatic allocation of expenses, and easy-to-track audit trails of specific transactions.
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Third-Party - Read third-party articles & reviews of products & services
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Third-Party Articles and Product Reviews
These articles have appeared in magazines and e-newsletters that you may receive. In addition to our industry experts providing helpful information and advice through outside media, we receive third-party reviews of our products and services from objective sources. Visit these prominent publications to read the most recent articles.
Campbell Award 2011
Sage 100 Fund Accounting Honored With Fifth Consecutive Campbell Award
Sage 100 Fund Accounting, the accounting suite designed specifically for nonprofit organizations and government agencies, has been honored with the 2011 Campbell Award for Highest Customer Satisfaction.
Advancing Philanthropy
Maximize Fundraising Success With Free Tech Tools and Tips
Read this article for quick, easy and free tips from Sage’s Stacy Dyer that can help turn your next fundraiser into a success!
CPA Technology Advisor
2007 Review of Not For Profit Accounting Systems: New Requirements Cement Need For Quality Not-For-Profit Products
Continuing in the 5-star trend for the 2006 review of Sage Fund Accounting, this award-winning product received another 5-star review from CPA Technology Advisor in this article from October 2007 by Mary Girsch-Bock.
FundRaising Success
Come Up First in Search: Use these search engine optimization tips to move your organization to the top of the results queue
Appearing in the November 2007 issue of FundRaising Success magazine, this column was co-authored by Sage’s Heather Burton and Sitewire’s Josh Yeager.
NTEN
NTEN Detailed Review of Low Cost Donor Management Systems
Sage Fundraising 50 gets top pick from Idealware and NTEN Idealware, a nonprofit organization that provides candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits, and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), the membership organization of nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes, released A Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems. Sage Fundraising 50 was reviewed, and praised as one of the “best fundraising [solutions] $4,000 will buy.” The product was also chosen as one of the Top 10 products reviewed.
The NonProfit Times
Case Study: Sharing the IT Health of Who, Why, and How Much?
This January 2008 case study features Albert Pick Jr. Fund (AFP), a Chicago foundation, and quotes Sage’s Bonnie McLain on the increasing sophistication in operational complexity for nonprofit organizations.
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