With new challenges in nonprofit giving, the need to engage your donor base is more important than ever. Staying connected to your donors and communicating your impact can help ensure your organization continues to get the funding you need to continue your good work.

In the eBook, ‘Nonprofit Storytelling: Using Data and Performance Metrics to Motivate Donors’, you’ll learn how to leverage your financial data and performance metrics to better tell your story. You’ll also get best practices along with specific examples of how you can elevate your story to strengthen long-term sustainability.

Download your copy here.

​If you’d like to better understand what Sage Intacct can do for your organization, please contact us.

Cloud computing has revolutionized nonprofit accounting and financial management. What will be the next wave of change? We believe it will be Digital Transformation.

Join us for ‘Digital Transformation for Nonprofit Finance Teams’

This popular webinar, now on demand for you to watch at your leisure, will feature:

• Survey results – nonprofit leaders reveal their greatest challenges
• What digital transformation means for your organization
• How artificial intelligence (AI) is supporting digital finance transformation
• Nonprofit transformation stories
• Leveraging technology to make it happen

Click here to view the on-demand presentation.

Sage Intacct nonprofit accounting software gives you features for centralized control and distributed responsibility in one system – contact us, we’d be happy to show you how.

Are your nonprofit financials audit-ready? Do your financials present the lowest possible risk of errors, earning a “clean” unqualified opinion from your independent auditor?

With growing competition for funding and intensified scrutiny by stake holders, audit-ready financials are vital for your nonprofit organization’s mission success.

Download ‘How to Speed Up Your Nonprofit Audit with Audit-Ready Financials’ 

In the eBook, you’ll gain insights into the key to audit-readiness, learn how to properly organize and prepare audit-ready financials, and see how nonprofits like yours have been able to shorten audit preparation time by 62%.

We hope you find value in this resource - please contact us at info@leafsoftwaresolutions.com with your questions.

Leaf is a proud supporter of WFYI Public Media. In fact, we’ve been supporting WFYI since 2006, underwriting morning and afternoon radio programming such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Marketplace. What was the genesis of this support? Why have we continued to support public media?

Some History
As Leaf redefined its own space in the market, rebranding to Leaf Software Solutions in 2003, we were determined to reestablish the company as a local resource. We knew part of our core philosophy was to establish trust before offering solutions as we targeted customers in the Central Indiana area. As it turns out, the profile of our target customer happened to closely match the characteristics of those that were already listening to and consuming public media. 

As our chairman Mike Wilson states, “The opportunity to take advantage of this match between WFYI listeners and our target customer was percolating right under our noses. It was simply up to us to make the investment in a public resource we believed in. In early 2006 we started underwriting WFYI and have been pleased to be a part of their mission.” 

Underwriting vs Advertising
The revenue model public radio depends upon is based on underwriters, not traditional advertisers. The messaging within this model allows us to affirm our support for public media rather than simply pitch our product information. This style of communication resonates with listeners and creates a halo effect as we reiterate and confirm the values of public media to their loyal listeners. The Leaf brand message is showcased in an uncluttered environment, not in a block of ads where listeners may tune out. Just as Leaf establishes trust in our collaborative engagements with customers, WFYI establishes trust in its listeners by providing high quality educational and informative programming.

Our Target Customer Aligns with WFYI’s Radio Audience
When you look at the WFYI radio coverage map with its focus on Central Indiana, you see alignment with the Leaf target geography. Our desire is to be known locally, establishing business relationships and providing solutions here in Central Indiana. By underwriting local programming, Leaf is reaching those business leaders that are not only engaged in the community, but also are decision makers. 

Loyal Audience, Loyal Customers
A public radio audience values the difference between advertisements and sponsorships. When listening to commercial radio with its up to 26 minutes of non-programming time per hour, you’re more likely to change the station. With public radio listeners, over 56 minutes of programming occupies every hour, decreasing the clutter and resulting in a loyal audience keeping the dial set where it is. Clearly, this gives sponsors like Leaf a better chance to reach our audience. Listeners come to appreciate this schedule, and associate our brand with the high value, low interruption type of programming.

Linking Our Brand with WFYI
One thinks carefully before choosing an advertising or underwriting partner. Do you and your brand want to be linked to the values and character of that partner? Associating our brand alongside a partner providing engaging and thought-provoking content positions Leaf favorably. Leaf lives by its core principles of Fairness, Kindness, Effectiveness, and Significance. We see those principles reflected in the way WFYI delivers trusted and valued content to Central Indiana, which confirms our commitment as an underwriter.

Are you interesting in learning more about WFYI Public Media? With your support, you’re contributing to the WFYI Mission to empower, educate, entertain and connect the community through impactful journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Donate to WFYI Public Media
Interested in supporting WFYI? Visit the donate page here. 

Corporate Support of Public Media
Is your business interested in underwriting public media? See this page. 

Nonprofit finance leaders need to assume a more strategic role in organizational intelligence and planning. To do that, you need better visibility into both financial and operational metrics, so you can make better decisions.
In the Secrets to Gaining Visibility into Nonprofit Financials eBook, we explore the challenges of nonprofit financial reporting, reveal the secrets to gaining the visibility you need to develop winning strategies to advance your mission and discuss how your peers are using the cloud to deliver on growth strategies.

“Before, everyone was in the dark, but with Sage Intacct it’s a whole new world. Department managers can see precisely how they are doing with the click of a button . . . As a result, people are controlling their costs proactively, the organization’s overall expenses are down, we’re sticking to our budget, and our spend is under control.” Alisa B. CFO

If you’d like to explore how to better control costs and keep projects on budget, please contact us. We're happy to answer your questions and show you the solution.

In the mission-driven nonprofit world, accounting and financial management can sometimes slip down the priority list. It’s not always easy to allocate budget dollars to back office infrastructure that doesn’t directly support the nonprofit agenda, and it’s even harder to find the time and expertise to make it all work. Consider some of the obstacles:

• Capital investment for software and hardware
• Facilities and expert personnel to implement and maintain the system
• Lengthy deployment cycles
• Capacity / scalability
• Reliability / availability

These issues aren’t part of most nonprofit organization’s core competencies. That’s why many nonprofits are increasingly turning to new-generation cloud-based solutions to automate financial management. Cloud-based financials enable the application vendor to deliver shared, scalable services that the nonprofit agency can access over the Internet using a web browser or mobile device. There’s no need to buy, own, license, understand, manage, or control the underlying hardware, software, or data / networking infrastructure that supports the financial infrastructure. Cloud services are typically delivered on a term-based subscription basis, eliminating the need for upfront software licensing fees or major purchases of hardware. The result is cost-effective, anytime, anywhere managed access. While the urge might be to invest in programs rather than technology, it may be wise to calculate how a modest investment in technology can transform operations and ultimately help better manage programs. Cloud technology is much easier to implement than legacy systems of the past, and quickly delivers return on investment.

What do nonprofit financial leaders have to say about their move to the cloud?
“All of our chapters can access our cloud-based financials,” said Nikki Jones, Controller, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association. “We have volunteers working all over the world at all hours of the day and night. With our system, they access the same world-class financial foundation that many companies use. Our board and chapter leaders have real-time access to reports, registrations, metrics, and analyses. That means we’re constantly on top of our operation and can make strategic decisions faster.  For us, the cloud is critical.  It’s the only way to go.”

“Cloud financials are absolutely key to running a nonprofit today,” said James Linday, Vice President and CFO, Great Books Foundation. “Now we can eliminate lots of manual work, be more productive, and eliminate all of those capital investments. This is a predictable, flat operating expense, and we save at least $30,000 a year this way.”

​In nonprofit financial management, survival depends on predictable costs, a reliable infrastructure, and world-class functionality.

Key Best Practices for Survival:

• Move financial management to the cloud for optimal accessibility and lower cost
• Enable global real-time access to financials, reports, and analyses
• Use cloud architectures to eliminate manual work and improve productivity while providing world-class functionality that far exceeds primitive single-user tools

To learn more about the cloud-based financials we recommend, you can view this short,  on-demand video https://rc.sageintacct.com/product-demos/sage-intacct-for-nonprofits?referral=LeafSoftware

Earning Gold Partner status with Microsoft enables Leaf Software Solutions to further meet the current and future needs of customers seeking application development and integration.
 
CARMEL, IND. (August 20, 2020) - Leaf Software Solutions has earned Microsoft Gold Partner status. The Gold Status is reserved for those partners who have agreed to collaborate and establish a close working relationship with Microsoft. The title communicates to the marketplace that Leaf has applied itself and has earned the highest standard of Microsoft's widely recognized competency program.
 
Justin Kruse, who leads the Microsoft Power Platform practice at Leaf stated, “Our team, with their 50+ years of combined experience developing Microsoft applications, has proven expertise delivering quality solutions to the marketplace. By earning Gold Partner status, we are now better prepared than ever to take on the complex problems that businesses are encountering through thoughtful software development using the Microsoft Power Platform.”
 
To earn the Gold Partner status with Microsoft, the team of dedicated software development experts at Leaf demonstrated expertise in the applications and infrastructure areas of business and technology including application development, app integration, cloud platform, and DevOps. These competencies are designed to not only prepare Microsoft Partners to meet customer needs, but also to help attract new customers who are looking for Microsoft-certified solution providers. Leaf Software Solutions now stands apart from their peers by being part of this elite tier within the Microsoft Partner Network.
 
About Leaf Software Solutions: Leaf Software Solutions has been delivering mission critical business solutions for 33 years. Our consultative approach results in custom-tailored solutions that create value for your business. Learn more at www.leafsoftwaresolutions.com.
 
For more information contact:
 
Leaf Software Solutions
Marty Bird
317-814-8000
mbird@leafsoftwaresolutions.com

​Two Indiana companies are collaborating by combining testing and laboratory services with a software solution that tracks, monitors, and reports results.
 
CARMEL, IND. (August 6, 2020) - Leaf Software Solutions has developed a COVID-19 test tracking and compliance solution. In collaboration with ARIA Diagnostics, which operates COVID-19 testing sites throughout central Indiana, the software application is now being offered to organizations wishing to proactively address the sudden changes required as people return to work, school, and other activities. With a comprehensive testing, tracking, monitoring, and compliance solution, organizations will have information at their fingertips that will allow them to make decisions that prioritize the health and safety of their workforce, customers, student body, visitors, teams, etc.
 
“Our goal from day one has been to help people return to their lives as safely as possible,” said Vipin Ahlakha, President of Aria Diagnostics. “The software application from Leaf is a valuable complement to our diagnostic testing and laboratory services. A single test result is certainly useful, but organizations require a comprehensive view to track results and have information to help keep people’s safety first as the country and the state reopen.”
 
Chad Hankinson, President at Leaf Software Solutions noted that, “Proactive testing and tracking provides businesses, schools, higher ed institutions, and many others with the tools needed to keep safety as the top priority for their operating procedures. It makes good business sense, as does the collaboration with ARIA.”
 
As a result of this partnership, organizations may use ARIA Diagnostics for on-site testing as well as several drive-through locations along with the Leaf test tracking application as one comprehensive solution. The tracking application from Leaf has capabilities that include an executive dashboard, individual compliance and monitoring, test tracking, system generated alerts and reminders, 360-degree views, as well as field level auditing. By using the Microsoft Power Platform, the developers at Leaf created a flexible solution that may be repurposed and customized to add value to organizations seeking to track virtually any process, such as policy and procedure testing, compliance, and skills testing.
 
About Leaf Software Solutions: Leaf Software Solutions has been delivering mission critical business solutions for over 30 years. Our consultative approach results in custom-tailored solutions that create value for your business. Learn more at www.leafsoftwaresolutions.com.
 
About ARIA Diagnostics: ARIA Diagnostics is a high-complexity, CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited clinical diagnostic reference laboratory located in Indianapolis with over a quarter million patient specimens’ experience delivering timely, accurate, clinically actionable information through our nationwide COVID-19 testing, medication monitoring and drug testing services. ARIA Diagnostics is committed to the improvement of patient care by expanding its national clinical laboratory network to provide population specific, decentralized, and clinician tailored testing. Learn more at www.ariadxs.com.

For more information contact:
Leaf Software Solutions
Marty Bird
317-814-8000
mbird@leafsoftwaresolutions.com
 
ARIA Diagnostics
Susana Suárez
617-633-8927
susana@mediamoon.us

Leaf and CarDon Collaborate COVID-19 Testing and Tracking Application 

CARMEL, IND. (June 15, 2020) – Leaf Software Solutions has recently developed a COVID-19 testing, tracking, and compliance solution for CarDon, which owns and operates over 20 senior housing communities in the Midwest. With operating procedures changing fast due to the coronavirus pandemic, CarDon needed to ensure the safety of its residents and associates by employing a comprehensive testing, tracking, monitoring, and compliance solution. That’s when they turned to the experts at Leaf based in Carmel, Indiana.

Tom McClelland, Executive Director ‑ IT for CarDon stated, “From the start, our focus has been on leveraging the best technology to keep our associates and residents safe. We feel we accomplished that by partnering with Leaf.”

Chad Hankinson, President at Leaf Software Solutions noted that, “CarDon offered us the opportunity to do what we do best – listen, consult, evaluate, and create a best-in-class solution to add value while meeting a true business need.”

CarDon enjoys capabilities of the solution including the executive dashboard, individual compliance and monitoring, test tracking, system generated alerts and reminders, 360-degree views, as well as field level auditing. By using the Microsoft Power Platform, the developers at Leaf created a solution that may be repurposed and customized to add value to other businesses seeking to track virtually any process, such as policy and procedure testing, compliance, and skills testing.

About Leaf Software Solutions: Leaf Software Solutions has been delivering mission critical business solutions for over 30 years. Our consultative approach results in custom-tailored solutions that create value for your business. Learn more at www.leafsoftwaresolutions.com.

About CarDon & Associates: CarDon & Associates owns and operates senior housing and rehabilitation communities in central and southern Indiana. It is one of the largest such companies in the state, with 20 senior centers and approximately 3,000 employees. It is family-owned with main offices in Bloomington and Fishers, Indiana. Learn more at www.cardon.us.

For More Information contact:

Leaf Software Solutions
Marty Bird
317-814-8000
mbird@leafsoftwaresolutions.com

CarDon & Associates
Kendra Fauth-Edwards
317-600-2040
kfauthedwards@cardon.us

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New technologies and growing expectations are changing the job of CFOs like never before. An article in Forbes put the matter like this: “Perhaps chief technology evangelizer, chief strategic engineer or chief operations partner should share the billing with the finance title. CFOs today are expected to fill all of these roles.”​

To be more strategic and a champion of growth, CFOs need to embrace technology in all its forms. Deloitte research indicates seven technologies that “have growing interaction and relevance for how the work of finance gets done:”

1. Cloud computing
2. Process robotics
3. Visualization
4. Advanced analytics
5. Cognitive computing
6. In-memory computing
7. Blockchain

“Together, [these technologies] form a toolset finance can use to improve its own performance and serve the business more effectively, especially when they are used together,” according to Deloitte.

Elevating finance to the cloud
In particular, tech-savvy CFOs are looking to the cloud to expedite financial accounting tasks and get the insights they need to grow their business. Cloud-based financial management solutions such as Sage Intacct are essential to progressive CFOs for several reasons:

1. Greater operational efficiency. Sage Intacct replaces the “million spreadsheet march” with smart and streamlined automated financial processes, including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and project accounting. Sage Intacct has the flexibility to automate workflows including PO approvals, automatic invoicing, and more—without a spreadsheet in sight.
   
   
2. In-depth insights, on demand. Sage Intacct provides comprehensive, real-time financial reporting and analysis, giving CFOs an up-to-the-minute picture of their entire organization. They can create any report, dashboard, or visualization they need with the precise metrics that matter to investors, lenders, executives, and department leaders.
   
   
3. More productivity, flexibility at less cost. Sage Intacct eliminate the hardware costs and IT burdens while delivering the advantages of modern financial software—with lower costs, more security, and increased productivity. In addition, Sage Intacct implementations can be adapted—including functionality, reports, and analyses—to stay in step with changing business requirements. In this way, CFOs sidestep the painful capital investments, and tap into the power of sophisticated, high-performance financial software that’s managed by experts in a world-class data center.

Kevin Craig, managing director at Concur Canada, summed up the benefits of cloud technology this way: “Ultimately, cloud-based solutions are the key to allowing CFOs to take on the evolving role they are expected to fill. With emerging technologies and increased automation helping to remove much of the mechanical burden placed on a CFO, these business leaders are free to concentrate on adding value in the form of creative innovation and strategic direction to continue moving their business forward.”

Grow your company and your role with Leaf Software Solutions
Technology in and of itself has little value without the right partner. That’s why you can trust the professionals at Leaf Software Solutions to select and implement a business technology solution for your organization—one that helps you meet current needs and provides a platform for growth.

Contact us today and let us know how we can help.

​Are you adding new locations?  Opening another office?  Congratulations!  Your business is on a growth path. While it’s exciting to cut the ribbon or open the bottle of the bubbly to celebrate, challenges await. New entities add complexities to your organization that your QuickBooks financial software isn’t built to handle.

Some of these include: decentralized payables, inter-entity transactions, multiple currencies, and global consolidations—all of which require a purpose-built financial management system such as Sage Intacct. Whether your business is global or domestic, simple or complex, now you can close the books faster and gain the visibility you need even as your operations grow and evolve.

Get quick and accurate closes with automated consolidations
Finance teams in distributed organizations struggle with QuickBooks’ inability to quickly consolidate information at period close or when it’s needed for decision making. Sage Intacct’s multi-entity structure allows you to consolidate multiple entities with just a couple of clicks. Now you get accelerated closes, improved accuracy, and better visibility. Plus, every global consolidation includes a detailed journal entry report for easy audibility.

Easily manage multiple currencies
Sage Intacct automates the management of multiple currencies, saving you time and increasing accuracy. You’ll use up-to-date exchange rates for currency conversions and revaluations, and instantly access information on currency gains and losses. You can also produce reports in your headquarters’ currency or the entity’s local currency.

Save time and effort with simple setup and maintenance
With Sage Intacct, all your business entities reside in one system. You can quickly set up policies, procedures, workflows, and reporting for new entities regardless of the complexity of your multi-entity structure. For example, you can easily configure each new entity with unique definitions. Or automatically “inherit” centralized definitions—workflows, charts of accounts, period definitions, and lists—across entities for a standard, organization-wide configuration. You can also opt for automated inter-entity transactions with manageable rules, making it easier to centralize payables and receivables.

Give the right people the right access with permissions
Sage Intacct provides permissions that can be scaled to just the location the user works in and to just the area that person needs to see. For example, you may want a person to be able to enter sales orders for their entity, but they don’t need to see everything that’s going on in purchasing. Also, you may want a manager to be able to pull a report just for their department without being able to delve into the financial information of the whole company.

Take advantage of fast, flexible reporting
Giving people self-service access lets them get to the information they need—when they need it—to help their part of the company grow, and you don’t become a single source for constant requests. And Sage Intacct makes it easy to quickly produce accurate financial reports, regardless of your organization’s complexity. You can get insights from real-time visibility with instant roll-up reporting (single currency) or push-button consolidations (multiple currencies). What’s more, you can easily switch between consolidated and local views for further insights into the figures.

Growing businesses trust Leaf Software Solutions
QuickBooks, while excellent for new businesses, wasn’t designed for the complexities of multi-entity organizations. Whether you’re expanding geographically or diversifying your business, rely on Sage Intacct to keep you in control across your company. The professionals at Leaf Software Solutions can create and implement a technology solution that meets your unique business requirements—now and as you grow. Contact us by phone or email and let us know how we can help. ​

SupplyKick is an innovative online e-commerce company specializing in selling goods online on Amazon.com and other online retailers. Their mission is to simplify and revolutionize the world of e-­commerce and grow manufacturer’s brands to their full potential through lasting partnerships.

​The goal with this project was to find a more accurate approach to predict sales, to inform order restocking and inventory levels. As an Amazon retailer, overstocking leads to high warehouse storage charges, while understocking risks running out of inventory, bringing sales to a halt. This is a very complex problem for humans to solve as each product has different ordering trends and seasonality.

​One example that illustrates the difference between traditional and machine learning is trying to read handwriting. With traditional programming a programmer could attempt to program a set of rules that determine which letter is which, but this would be very time consuming and it would be impossible to generate a set of rules that is able to identify all types of handwriting. In machine learning, a user creates a model, which can be thought of as a complex mathematical function. The programmer will feed in handwriting data for which the correct answers are known. The model will read in all of this data, attempt to make predictions on what it thinks the answers (labels) are, compares its predictions with the correct answers, and adjusts itself until it is able to make accurate predictions. The machine learning model is not only much less labor intensive to produce, but also makes much more accurate predictions on many more types of data. 

​The model used in this project is a special type of machine learning model called a “artificial neural network.” These types of models have been around for over half a century, the first was theorized in 1958, however recent improvements in computation power has made it possible for practical use. Essentially, these are modeled off of the way brains (or “neural networks”) work, as they are an interconnected structure of “neurons” (or nodes) and “synapses” (or connections). Unlike real neural networks, which send biological compounds called “neurotransmitters” between neurons, neurons in artificialneural networks simply communicate using numbers. As it turns out, this seemingly basic structure is able understand complex concepts, similar to humans. It's worth noting that in this project a special type of neural network called a “recurrent neural network,” was applied, which is specifically designed to read sequences of data.  

​As we can see, the data is pretty noisy, which is not great for the model to achieve a fit. Really, we want the general trend rather than data that changes drastically day to day. In order to do so, we apply a smoothing function as illustrated in red.

​Of course, machine learning is cool, but you probably want to see the real business applications for the technology. Here’s an example of how it can be implemented in our services.

​This is a screenshot of the dashboard interface we have built for the client. As you can see it already provides them with lots of useful metrics to influence their business decisions. The end goal is to have the model running on the server, constantly pulling new data from Amazon and retraining itself. Then it would be able to show a projection of future sales in order to aid the client in reordering products. 

We’ve all seen it (and probably done it but we won’t talk about that) – a transposed transaction/document date.  And, of course, we rarely catch the transposition before we post.  Thus begins the long, arduous process of correcting a lousy posting for 2081 instead of 2018.  Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to prevent that?

​The good news is that thanks to Professional Services Tools’ Library (“PSTL”), there is!  The answer to our 2081 problem is a function within PSTL called Doc Date Verify. This function prevents a user from entering a transaction date that does not exist in the company’s fiscal period set up. 

​PSTL is now available free to all supported versions of GP (Click here for a list of supported versions and life cycle information).  PSTL should be installed on all workstations/servers to ensure that PSTL’s processes can run and validate all users’ data entry, validation, etc.  Additionally, some tools within PSTL do include the modification of data so we strongly encourage users to coordinate with their internal GP administrator or contact Leaf with questions before making any changes with those particular tools and when in doubt, back up the database!

​3.)  Under the “Misc. Tools” column on the far right, there is an option for Doc Date Verify. To enable, select the radio button and check the box next to Doc Date Verify. Once checked, you can click the “X” in the upper right corner to close the screen.  Doc Date Verify is officially enabled.

​Now assuming you’ve read through the post and ensured all workstations and remote servers, have PSTL installed, users won't be able to enter transaction dates where the corresponding fiscal period is not set up.  Here is the Payables Transaction Entry screen to demonstrate.

​You’ll see below that my Doc. Date is set to 04/21/2220 which isn’t set up on my system (and hopefully isn’t on yours either!). 

​As soon as I attempt to move away from the Doc Date field to the next data entry, I receive the error message below.

Though the button option says “Continue,” all it does is revert me to the Doc Date entry.  I cannot continue with data entry until I put in a valid date (i.e., a date that is set up in your company’s fiscal period set up).

Entering a valid date does not prevent a user from keying a document date as 8/1/2018 instead of 7/1/2018 if both periods exist and are open in GP, but it is a great tool to capture those transpositions of numbers that put dates in nonexistent fiscal periods which are much harder to correct!

Microsoft 365 is a complete, intelligent solution, including Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security, that empowers everyone to be creative and work together, securely.

Microsoft 365 Enterprise is designed for large organizations and integrates Office 365 Enterprise, Windows 10 Enterprise and Enterprise Mobility + Security.

Microsoft 365 Business is designed for small- to medium-sized businesses with up to 300 users and integrates Office 365 Business Premium with tailored security and management features from Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security. It offers services to empower employees, safeguard the business and simplify IT management.

Businessman Simon Mainwaring once said, “The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.”  Transparency and accountability, in particular, are essential to a nonprofit achieving mission success.

How to show accountability and transparency
The willingness to be accountable and transparent about your nonprofit — especially finances — creates an environment of trust that encourages donations. Financial transparency and accountability are also essential for legal compliance.

Jimmy Briggs will be sharing a video game he built for the event to show how video games are created, so grab the family, head downtown Indy and check out Canal Nights this evening.  
July 18  //  6 - 8 pm

Canal Nights: Game Night + Member Night at Indiana State Museum
Join us as we celebrate summer nights out on our Canal Terrace for free activities and family fun Wednesday evenings in June and July from 6 to 8 p.m. Enjoy games, art, science and fun! Exercise your competitive side on game night or discover the science of bubbles through wacky water experiments. Each Wednesday offers a different kind of hands-on experience! 

• June 6 - STEAM Night 
• June 13 - Nature Play Days 
• June 27 - Build It! 
• July 4 - Boom and Sparkle 
• July 11 - Water Science 
• July 18 - Game Night + Member Night 
• July 25 - Jump and Play (fitness night) 

Canal nights are free and open to the public, though museum galleries remain closed.  All activities take place outside on the canal side of the museum.  In case of rain, the event will relocate inside to the Gov. Frank & Judy O’Bannon Great Hall. 
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Parking is available in the White River State Park underground garage, and visitors will receive $5 parking with validation.

Once again, Leaf Software Solutions has gained recognition as a leading ERP solutions firm. Leaf earned the 38th position in the much-respected “Bob Scott’s Top 100 VARs 2018.” This is a list of VARs across the United States who sell and support financial software. Ranking and selection were based on revenue, employees and financial software type. Companies represented on the list were broad in reported revenue and with a particular focus on the middle market. The financial software product lines included were Microsoft Dynamics 365 products, Sage Intacct, Netsuite, and Accumatica. Furthermore, the predominance of VARS in the list represented cloud-based business software, which supports the expected industry trend where many have or are moving away from “on-premise” systems.

Leaf Software Solutions has a long-standing presence in the Greater Indianapolis area and has spent the last 31 years accelerating commercial growth for its clients. Leaf brings a unique blend of talented business and technology resources to every project. Leaf offers a full suite of financial software options, including a robust development workforce and strategy. Leaf is recognized, by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, as one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana, and has received this award for seven consecutive years.

Bob Scott has been informing the mid-market financial software sector through print and Internet-based publications for over 24 years and has served as technology editor of Accounting Today and as executive editor of The Progressive Accountant.