
Review: 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference
In mid-April 2023, your correspondent attended NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Denver, Colorado. This was the first in-person instance of NTEN’s annual conference since 2019 (though this instance kept the hybrid option introduced in 2021). There were reportedly over 2,000 attendees across both options, with over half of us gathered for three days in Denver. This review consists solely of my own opinions and reactions to the conference. In full disclosure, I received a ...

Important Financial Management Elements of a Guest Artist Contract
It’s spring, so your artistic operations team might be in the thick of drafting and sending contracts to next season’s guest artists. Regardless of your contracting cycle or when you read this article, here are four important elements of a guest artist contract that your finance team will appreciate having included. Disclaimer: What is a blog post about a legal or financial topic without a disclaimer? This is not legal advice. You should not be ...

Budgeting Tip: Separating Types of Expenses in your Chart of Accounts
If your programming runs from fall to spring/early summer, you most likely have a fiscal year that begins in mid-summer, and you most likely are presently in budget season. Here are two quick tips for organizing your Chart of Accounts. What is a Chart of Accounts? A Chart of Accounts is less a chart in the visual sense than it is a list of all the account names your organization uses within its accounting software, ...
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