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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Conference Review: SphinxConnect by Eric Joseph Rubio

In late January 2024, your correspondent attended the Sphinx Organization’s SphinxConnect in Detroit, Michigan. The conference is billed as “the largest and longest-standing convening de…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:24PM
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Level Up the Net Assets Portion of Your Balance Sheet by Eric Joseph Rubio

Accounting software will come “out of the box” with at least two accounts within the Equity (or Net Assets, in nonprofit terminology) section of your Statement of Financial Position (als…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 08:57PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Depreciation Basics for Non-Profit Arts Organizations by Eric Joseph Rubio

Depreciation, in the accounting sense, is the bookkeeping process of lowering the value of something that your organization owns over time. It is generally applied to physical or tangible ob…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

How to Account Your Earned Revenue by Eric Joseph Rubio

In the not-for-profit world, there are two types of revenue (as defined by tax law and accounting standards): contributed and earned. Contributed revenue includes monetary donations from ind…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 10:41AM
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Common Points of Confusion Between the Accounting and Development Teams by Eric Joseph Rubio

As our organizations grow, the number of donations and the number of financial transactions grow along with it. On top of that, the accounting function, if it hasn’t already, likely will m…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:07AM
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Review: 2023 Nonprofit Technology Conference by Eric Joseph Rubio

In mid-April 2023, your correspondent attended NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Denver, Colorado. This was the first in-person instance of NTEN’s annual conference since 2…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 07:04PM
Monday, April 3, 2023

Important Financial Management Elements of a Guest Artist Contract by Eric Joseph Rubio

It’s spring, so your artistic operations team might be in the thick of drafting and sending contracts to next season’s guest artists. Regardless of your contracting cycle or when you rea…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:58PM
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Budgeting Tip: Separating Types of Expenses in your Chart of Accounts by Eric Joseph Rubio

If your programming runs from fall to spring/early summer, you most likely have a fiscal year that begins in mid-summer, and you most likely are presently in budget season. Here are two quic…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:05PM
Thursday, January 19, 2023

AmazonSmile Closing on February 20: What Your Organization Should Do Now by Eric Joseph Rubio

Disappointingly to the broader nonprofit community, including many arts organizations, Amazon announced on January 18 that effective February 20, 2023, it is closing its AmazonSmile program.…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 02:46PM
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Worth a Look for Arts Organizations: Small Business Travel Rewards Programs by Eric Joseph Rubio

If you ever have employees or artists traveling to or from your organization’s home city, your organization should be earning small business travel rewards whenever possible. Many hotel ch…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:29PM
Monday, November 21, 2022

A Simple Way to Distinguish Contractors’ Pay from Reimbursements by Eric Joseph Rubio

Many arts organizations will have artists as well as other vendors that need not only payment for their service fees, but also will incur various reimbursable expenses while providing their …

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:01PM
Monday, October 31, 2022

Are You Ready For Mastercard’s New Recurring Payment Rules? by Eric Joseph Rubio

Earlier this fall, Mastercard issued new rules for merchants processing recurring credit card charges on its network (essentially, merchants who process recurring charges to a Mastercard-bra…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:19PM
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

A Quick Solution To The Problem Of Missing Credit Card Receipts by Eric Joseph Rubio

We’ve all been there, on one end of the conversation or the other: it’s the end of the month and the finance team is missing receipts for charges on company credit cards. Cardholders get…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Keeping Your Books Audit Ready by Eric Joseph Rubio

For arts managers outside the finance team, the idea of an audit may seem either terrifying or mundane. Even some inside the finance teams, of organizations of all sizes, the annual external…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM
Monday, November 16, 2020

Bridge the Board And Management With A Working Committee Structure by Eric Joseph Rubio

“I just love board meetings!” said no arts (or any other kind of) manager ever. While I can’t promise you will actually start to say that, I can offer a model that I’ve seen work wel…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards