Deena Englander

Helping nonprofits overcome operations bottlenecks to impact. Consulting, programs, and free resources for mission-driven leaders.

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Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day, and it is a day to reflect on what it means to show up for Indigenous communities. For nonprofit leaders, one answer is to learn about the Indigenous-led organizations in your region and support their work.

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Nonprofit payroll comes with rules general payroll services may overlook, and when they do, the organization is the one left dealing with the IRS. Choosing a payroll provider that specializes in nonprofits protects you from compliance issues that are hard to fix afterwards.

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Built to be Funded is 90% off through October 31. Our self-paced course walks charity entrepreneurs through the foundational documents funders expect. Use code EARLYACCESS90 at checkout for $19.90: https://t.co/h13itV7QnI

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Google Docs has a voice typing feature built into the Tools menu, and almost no one uses it. Talking through a first draft of a grant narrative or board report is much faster than typing.

Open a Google Doc, click Tools, and select Voice typing to start.

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Keep a steady pace through Q4 to set yourself up for a stronger Q1. Year-end fundraising and board approvals hit at once, and pushing harder to get it all done leaves you depleted heading into January.

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Meet the WorkStream Nonprofit team. We're growing, and so is what we're able to offer. Operations experts, consultants, marketers, bookkeepers, and administrators now support nonprofits at every stage of their journey.

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Sponsors vary in how much they take on. Ours is built around getting organizations to independence. https://t.co/rqVlMI6rS5

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We offer fiscal sponsorship, paired with incubation.

Funding often arrives before your 501(c)(3) approval does. Our program gives that funding a legal home so you can start the work now, and the coaching to build an organization that stands on its own.

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Twenty to thirty minutes at month-end keeps the books audit-ready and gives leadership current financial numbers instead of quarterly guesswork. A repeatable monthly close checklist prevents unreconciled transactions and missing receipts from piling into a multi-day cleanup.

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Last week, our CEO Deena Englander was in New York for UNGA 81 High-Level Week with @AISafetyC. Diplomats, heads of state, scientists, and industry leaders came together for serious conversations on frontier AI safety and international coordination.

#AISafety #UNGA81

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This is from session two of our Operations Health Check Series. The full series is on YouTube and available as a free, self-guided course: https://t.co/78CYrWq6XE

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Your organization's reserves should be earning income for you. Money sitting in a standard checking account is money left on the table. A savings account or a simple investment policy approved by your board can turn it into steady income.

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The most common point of failure we see is a strong mission without a solid structure behind it. Fractional operations support and coaching: https://t.co/rqVlMI6rS5

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Depending on your state, a financial review or full audit can be triggered anywhere between two hundred fifty thousand and two million dollars in revenue.

Register in every state where you operate, solicit funds, or employ someone. Stay audit-ready as you go.

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Time reserved on the calendar now stays yours. Time added in Q4 comes at the cost of something else already there. Take twenty minutes this week to block off the hours you'll need for year-end fundraising and board prep before October arrives.

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A single automation running a hundred times a month is a hundred small tasks the team no longer has to touch. Zapier and Make connect software across the operations stack, so repetitive work happens without anyone having to remember to do it.

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It works best as a temporary arrangement, so make sure you need it before signing with anyone. Details and a link to talk it through: https://t.co/rqVlMI6rS5

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Before you spend six months waiting on 501(c)(3) approval, there's another route.

Fiscal sponsorship means a parent nonprofit houses your organization inside it. You run the program, and they carry the financial and legal responsibility for the money.

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@npquarterly The survey behind this found missing policies ranked ahead of cost as a barrier, which means the first move costs nothing. Decide who owns AI decisions and Set policy for which data stays internal. Only 8 percent of orgs have a roadmap, so that alone puts you ahead.

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@Philanthropy And most of that is reformatting data the org already has. Instead, you can build one internal master report holding every metric any funder has ever asked for, then pull from it when each template comes due. That cuts the monthly scramble.