Description of Services

We assess and assist you to upgrade your accounting systems.

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• Examine your Accounting system (Chart of Accounts) Cash/Accrual

• Convert to a new accounting system if necessary

• Set up a payroll system

• Set up systems to integrate with bank or payroll system

• Create and enter a budget for comparison reports

• Create additional standard reports for board members

•  Train and support your team/bookkeeper (we do not do data entry)

We assist you to create and implement a plan for increasing and diversifying revenue.

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• assist you to identify available funds and create a fundraising plan (May include establishing projected budgeted income)

• Identify five new grant prospects / individual and corporate donors

• assist with the creation of a grant template and /or solicitation letter/email

• assist to find a grant writer to solicit funds 

• Create a system for tracking grants/ donors solicited and funds received   (May include setting up a CRM)

​We help you determine whether events are a viable option for your agency. 

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• Establish the purpose and goals for events

• Determine ways to increase sources of funding at events

• Form a committee to manage event details - Attend meeting

• Promote your event

• Involve board members in your events

• Discuss software you can use to make your event successful

• Connect with celebrities or speakers for events

We support your efforts to have a great board that gathers resources and governs effectively

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• Based on bylaws and discussion determine the number of board members you would like to have. 

• Create a grid to attract members to fill the organization's needs

• Register with agencies that provide board members

• Form Committees led by board members

• Create Board pledge documents with descriptions of board roles and duties

• Determine the minimum amount board members should contribute and solicit

• Create a structure for onboarding members and their terms, elections, and duties for officers

• Create a plan for storing board-related documents - Meeting minutes and agendas, reports, legal documents

• Attend the meeting if required to assist with creating agenda and minutes

• Facilitate board retreat

We guide your board as they have a preliminary Strategic Planning session with some of the elements of a full strategic planning process such as:

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• Discussion of Vision, Mission, and Core Values. 

• A simple SWOT analysis.

• A discussion about Core Competencies - What JIP will be able to achieve in the next two years?

• We will review any previous plans and whether goals were accomplished or should be repeated.

• We will examine what is needed in the following categories:  Administration, Fundraising, and Program, and determine which goals will take priority. 

• We will discuss growth and resilience strategies and attempt to come up with 4 to 6 overarching strategic imperatives (SMART goals)

This is not a How to Start a Nonprofit Class. There are great classes for that. This is the What, Why, Who, How and When to help you to decide to start a nonprofit or if you already started a nonprofit, have you asked yourself these questions. Churches are nonprofits too.

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Here are a few of the questions we will review.

What do you hope to accomplish? What are your goals and objectives?  

Who is your target population? Why do they need you?

Who works with you? Do you have a good board or team? Are you burnt out?

How are you going about it? Do you have a strategic plan?

When is a good time to start? If you started, do you have a calendar of activities?

Coming soon!!!

SDNC offers assistance with allocating salaries and resources across a number of government and private foundation grants.

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We recommend various tools and solutions to store data about your grants.

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Post award grants management can help you track, store and report on grants data to determine management methods to ensure compliance and most of all financial cost monitoring.

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Some government grants require procurement and contracting policies. We introduce clients to discuss creating systems to allocate salaries and plans to build capacity and infrastructure to manage grant requirements.