Step Up From Collaborating To Co-Authoring In MS Word 2016

It took them long enough but the folks in Redmond have finally made real-time co-author editing part of Microsoft Word. If you’re an Office 365 user and haven’t upgraded to Office 2016, you should hop on that ASAP and if you’re not a subscription user, then this feature alone is worth the cost of an Office 2016 upgrade. If you’re a Google doc user, you’ve enjoyed the benefits of real-time collaborative document editing for some ...

Discovering The True Cost Of Programs

For some time now the perception that a non-profit with a high overhead cost was inefficient has provided a disincentive for non-profit organizations to figure out the true cost of their programs. Recently non-profit evaluaters like GuideStar, Charity Navigator and BBB Wise Giving Alliance  have been advocating for eliminating overhead ratio as a measure of effectiveness.  The federal Office of Management and Budget recently implemented rules requiring governments at all levels to provide at least ...

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Teamwork Is More Than It’s Cracked Up to Be

As “non-profit-teers”, we have to do more with less. That’s underselling it I know, yet it’s a daily reality of the job. This isn’t something we lament, it’s a fact of our jobs that inspires us. It pushes us to use creativity and collaboration to be more and be better than we are today and it charges the efforts of our organizations to ascend to new and greater heights. My fellow ArtsHacker Sarah Marcynski penned a ...