Category: "Best Practices"
March 22, 2022
How to Combat Rising Wages Without Breaking the BankFor employers used to having the upper hand in the last 40 years, the Great Resignation is demanding a rethinking of employee relations. For the foreseeable future, power rests with workers, and wages are therefore starting to rise throughout the economy. To put it in perspective, Warehouse club Costco has boosted pay to a minimum…
January 27, 2022
10 Strengths Nonprofits can Leverage to Attract and Keep Employees10 Strengths Nonprofits can Leverage to Attract and Keep Employees From the Nonprofit Experts Many industries continue to suffer labor shortages as employees reevaluate their work experiences. In what some are calling “the Great Resignation,” employees are leaving their jobs at historic rates to pursue better career opportunities. The last couple of years have completely…
November 9, 2021
5 Financial Best Practices for Nonprofits#1: Find a Trusted Financial Advisor #2: Go Paperless The benefits of going paperless span from saving the environment to streamlining processes and saving costs throughout the organization. Paper drives manual processes and inefficiencies which sap energy and funds. Going paperless, from invoicing to bill payments to full-blown accounting in the cloud, helps nonprofits to…
October 28, 2021
JMT Consulting and Vena as Life Saving ToolsTools to Navigate a Nonprofit Budget Process In the past few years, we, as a whole, have learned that there’s no excuse for working with outdated technology, especially when it comes to the process of budgeting. When we talk with nonprofits about their budget process, it’s usually accompanied by moans and groans about what an…
August 5, 2021
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in NonprofitsDiversity and inclusion are specifically important concepts in the nonprofit sector because nonprofits are created to serve the community, made up of people from different backgrounds including different races, ages, genders, and abilities.
July 30, 2021
Generating Reliable Revenue for your NonprofitOptimize key sources of revenue for Nonprofits such as fees from programs, goods, or services, government grants, and investments with JMT.
July 27, 2021
Attributes of Grant-Winning CharitiesGrants are usually awarded because the charity presents a set of intangible reasons that helped convince the foundation staff and board to make the commitment How often do we find ourselves feeling more than a touch of envy when we hear of another charity – much like our own – winning a grant? Followed by…
July 26, 2021
Nonprofit Passion and the Need to Digitally TransformNonprofit organizations need very strong fund accounting and grant management support I admit I am new to the technology world of nonprofits, having come from enterprise solutions in the manufacturing and supply chain world for multi-billion-dollar organizations. Though nonprofit organizations tend to be much smaller, that does not seem to make their needs for certain…
April 21, 2021
Sage Intacct User Management – Creating and Deleting User AccountsModify Your Sage Intacct Users or be Ready for Surprises Do you like receiving surprise invoices? Of course not! Who does? At JMT, we want to spare our clients the annoyance and anxiety of receiving unexpected invoices. The main culprit for them? User modifications. Like any workplace, nonprofit organizations experience occasional employee turnover. When staff turnover does…
March 3, 2021
2021 Nonprofit Technology Trends ReportThe report shares the results of over 500 nonprofit finance leaders who participated in the survey. Hot off the press is the 2021 Nonprofit Technology Trends Report. Available in the report are the survey results around the topics of funding and donors; programs and services; communication and constituent engagement; market trends; technology; and accounting and…
September 23, 2020
Protect with Tech: The Importance of Investing in Secure, Modern Technology at NonprofitsThis post contains the full text transcript of an interview conducted by Paul Clolery (Editor-in-Chief, The NonProfit Times) featuring nonprofit experts Jacqueline Tiso (Founder & CEO, JMT Consulting) and Emily Sachs (Nonprofit Executive & Consultant, Sachs Associates). Read along as they discuss the rising data security risks and other challenges facing organizations in times of…
June 22, 2020
Sisyphus Looks Inward: Nonprofit Short and Long-Term Decision Making Starts with Honest Self-AssessmentThis article is the second installment in a guest blog series by Russell C. Pomeranz, President and CEO of Claverack Advisory Group. You can click here to read part one, “Sisyphus Had It Easy: The Case for Nonprofits to Prioritize Long-Term Solutions Even When Short-Term Challenges Abound.” Upon finding out in part one of our series…
