Future Focused Solutions

Future Focused Solutions couldn’t exist without its star staff. Meg Hagan makes our grant tracking a reality, and also social media. She’s amazing

🌟 Grant Success: A Team Effort 🌟 Starting a grant program in small to mid-size nonprofits is all about teamwork! Grant writers can't work in isolation. Just like a strong financial audit process, a robust grants program thrives on the synergy between program operations, evaluation, and financial records. 👉 Check out this visual representation of how it all comes together. On the left side, you see the documents and information needed for a strong grant. On the right side, meet the departmental leads that hold that information. Each team member has a role to play, and the grant writer's job is to bring all that information to tell a compelling story of the organization's programs and accomplishments. 🌐 Every organization's roles and responsibilities chart may look different, but download this chart to use as a template and foster a grant-ready culture. Let's collaborate for grant success! 🤝💼 #GrantProgram #Teamwork #NonprofitSuccess #GrantReadiness

✨ When I founded my business in 2018, one thing I knew was important to me was creating a workplace where individuals could thrive in an innovative, self-organizing environment, and become #lifelong learners. As Future Focused Solutions continues to evolve, I remain committed to upholding this core value. Here are six valuable insights I've gained on nurturing a resilient team culture: ➡️Address questions promptly. ➡️Adapt to various learning styles. ➡️Embrace mistakes as learning opportunities. ➡️Set the stage for success, even if it means repetition. ➡️Encourage growth and innovation—your team has much to offer. ➡️Know when to step back—foster a team that can lead where you can't - Find the right people and get out of their way. 🌱 Let's continue to cultivate a culture of growth and excellence together. #TeamCulture #LearningOrganization #InnovationMatters #Leadership

🎉 Happy Friday, everyone! 🎉 As we close the audit season, FFS would like to congratulate all our clients for achieving successful audits this summer! 🎉 Their dedication to an audit-ready team culture and agility has brought them to the final stages of this accomplishment. Curious about some steps you can take to begin preparing now for your successful audit? 💼 Our latest blog post has the ultimate guide to mastering the art of audit readiness. Learn about building a culture of success, organizing documents, and more! 📊 Plus, don't miss out on our FREE Audit Accountability Chart template - available for download. 📂 Get it now and streamline your audit process. 💪 #AuditReadienss #Nonprofitmanagment #Nonprofitfinance #Nonprofitsuccess #nonprofitoperations

🎉🎉 Exciting News! 🎉🎉 Your organization just received a 3-year grant for a program or project! Let's celebrate and give a round of applause! 🥳👏 But now, what's next? It's crucial to ensure proper tracking and restriction of the grant on the back end. Remember, the relationship with the funder is just starting when you get the grant. 📑🔍 Here is a simple checklist for things to remember so that you can turn that success into a long, fruitful relationship with the funder🗣️🤝 #GrantManagement #FinancialTransparency #GrantAccountability #LetUsHelpYou #NonprofitSuccess

Finding a workflow and creating flexibility for our staff is an important value at FFS. I believe that people thrive the best when they are given the freedom to structure their workday in a setting that makes sense for their lives and work style. I appreciate the data to support the benefits of a flexible work environment, but I also love having the unique perspective of watching it play out every day! FFS has team members from coast to coast; we even have one working this week in Ireland! We all enjoy the benefit of being able to work from anywhere! Here are some of the fun places our team has worked from this summer! 🌞🌴🏖️ Let's embrace the individuality of our unique lives and work style and find our perfect work spot! Where have you been working from lately? Share your exciting workspaces with us! 💼#TeamMorale #WorkCulture #FlexibleWorkLife #RemoteWork #SummerVibes #FunWorkspaces #FFSTeam #WorkStyle #ThrivingTogether

📊💼 Are you working on a grant budget and want to align it with your finance team's QuickBooks? One key to success is understanding your organization's Chart of Accounts (COA). What's a COA, you ask? 🤔 🔍 The COA is the heartbeat of your organization's inner workings. It should closely resemble your nonprofit's specific program areas, revenue, and expenses. While each nonprofit's COA will differ, some standardization is essential for 990 and other reporting requirements. Here's a snapshot of FFS’s standardized COA. We encourage to keep your COA similar year over year to track your organziations progress throughout your history. 💡 Need help customizing your QuickBooks Online COA to meet nonprofit needs and reporting requirements? Or linking your COA with grant budgets for recording accurate transactions that lead to effective grant report budgets? I would love to connect and see how we can help! #NonprofitFinance #ChartOfAccounts #StandardizationMatters #FinancialManagement #GrantBudgeting #FFSAssistance

🌟 Lifelong learning is one of our core values at FFS, and our team embraces this with passion! Over the past several months, we have fully onboarded three new team members, and each has shown incredible ambition, drive, and a thirst for knowledge. Empowering this amazing team has been an incredibly fulfilling journey for me at FFS! But it has not been all work... We recently had the chance to come together in person for a retreat to celebrate our achievements, and look forward to the exciting milestones ahead! We even got to meet SUE the Twins' organist! 🎉🙌 #LifelongLearning #PassionForGrowth #EmpoweredTeam #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork #CelebratingTogether #ExcitingAdventures