Services
Finance Operations
Keep your focus on your mission and the people you serve. Ascent can provide the number-crunching services needed to ensure your nonprofit’s success.
-Bookkeeping: Let Ascent take the reins on managing the data entry for your revenue, expenses, and your monthly accrual postings.
-Financial Reporting: Ascent can reconcile your books and provide monthly reports that will inform your decision making.
-Budget Creation: Plan for the future through the creation of your annual budget, project budgets, and department budgets.
-Audit Preparation: Audits are daunting to even the most experienced nonprofit professional. Ascent can take the work off your hands and work directly with your CPA and/or auditor to organize your financial records and book your adjustments.
-Accounting Systems Evaluation: Ascent can assess and update your financial systems, your chart of accounts, and your statement of functional expense to inform your programming and its impact. Together we can improve and build on what you are already doing and position you for future growth.
Fundraising Operations
Prioritize the champions who make your vision possible. Ascent can streamline your reporting, restructure your database, and utilize your data to build stronger relationships with your stakeholders and community.
-Grant Reporting: Every foundation and government entity has its own rules for evaluating your work, which can be overwhelming and time consuming. Ascent can provide financial reporting services for your grants and their reporting needs.
-Database Administration: Does your donor database collect dust? Are you using your systems to properly communicate to your constituents? Is it time for a database overhaul? Ascent can work with you to find the right solution for your organization’s needs.
-Gap Analysis: What is the gap between what you are currently raising and what you need to raise to achieve your programming goals? Ascent can collaborate with you to identify the gaps in your fundraising plan so that you can target the right resources to grow.
-Data Evaluation: How does your data work for you? Do you know who your lapsed donors are? Ascent can do a deep dive into your database to find out who your future stakeholders are.
-Communication Plans: Let’s create a plan to segment your audiences to ensure you are talking to each of your constituents in an exciting and engaging way to strategically generate buzz about the benefit your nonprofit brings to the world.
Organization Operations
How do you put people first with limited resources? Ascent can optimize your backend activities and reduce your operating costs so you can invest in your team.
-HR Benefits: Ascent can work with your insurance agents for your annual renewals and update your staff on the most recent changes to your benefit coverage.
-Policy Manuals: Let us help you update your employee manuals and document your staff’s processes to ensure business continuity.
-Org Chart & Job Description Evaluation: Is your organization optimized to deliver the best programming possible? Ascent can work with you to build the best version of your team.
-Workflows & Staff Resources: Is your tech getting you down? Is something amiss in the way your team collaborates? Ascent can assess the solutions that make work harmonious and teams sync.
-Special Projects: What do YOU need to ensure that your nonprofit ascends to the next level? Let’s discuss your strategic priorities, make a plan, and turn your aspirations into operations.