Later today, TechSoup will be hosting a free TechSoup Talks! webinar with one of our donor partners, Acteva, to discuss the features and answer questions about their event-registration, ticketing, and management tool. Here are more details:

Acteva: Event Registration Made Easy
11 am Pacific today!

Are you planning an event for your organization? Have a big fundraising banquet coming up? What about a member conference or alumni gathering? Maybe you run a theater or hold paid training events for community members. Acteva might be the right event registration solution for your nonprofit or library!

Through TechSoup, Acteva Plus event registration, ticketing, and payment management solutions is available for donation to nonprofit organizations and public libraries for a $50 admin fee.

In this webinar, TechSoup's Becky Wiegand will interview Ed Lemire, Acteva's Executive Vice President, and Jonathan Cohen from Cohen Camps — sponsors of Camps Pembroke, Tel Noar, and Tevya — who recently held two events for his camp alumni using Acteva. We'll discuss the overall features of Acteva's toolset and the ins and outs of planning your next successful event!

Join us at 11 Pacific: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule /display.do?udc=1ljm0iyzznp2

In addition to this webinar, we'd like to invite you to share your experiences using Acteva to plan an event at your organization, to ask any questions about how their tool functions, or about their donation program for nonprofits and libraries through TechSoup. You're welcome to discuss your thoughts on other event registration, payment processing, and ticketing tools you've used as well.

Reporting and metrics are important sources of information for nonprofits and the foundations that support them, by making data available about who is benefiting from their work in the social sector. VentureBeat, a blog on news and trends in the venture capital sector, blogged about Acumen Fund's project on a metrics tool for social enteprises and nonprofits.

Paying bills never sounds very sexy, but having money in your bank sure can be! And one thing nonprofits universally need is money in the bank to run programs and provide services, conduct advocacy and education, or a host of other social benefit work.

One financial management tool frequently used by companies and organizations is QuickBooks. If you're not familiar with it QuickBooks helps organizations manage essential financial tasks like paying bills, creating invoices, producing reports, and tracking expenses, contributions, and payments.

QuickBooks Premier 2009 allows the installer to select from a general business version or five industry-specific versions of QuickBooks, including Nonprofit Edition. QuickBooks Premier Editions 2009 is available for an admin fee of only $45.

Need an accounting package for your nonprofit, but don't know what to look for? Read A Few Good Accounting Packages in TechSoup's Learning Center to find outmore about QuickBooks and other solutions.

The Nonprofit Finance Fund has announced a special package of services designed to meet the needs of nonprofits in the current economic climate. According an email from the NFF:

We have put together a flexible combination of advice, coaching, planning tools and a variety of loan products … to help [nonprofits] manage through the recession while positioning them for long-term financial and programmatic strength. These services can be combined and customized to fit the needs of nonprofits on both an individual and group basis. They are designed to help answer questions that range from the simple to the complex: "what’s our current financial condition and where are we headed?"; "how do we decide whether to reduce, combine or cut programs?"; "how do we communicate our position to our board and funders?"; "how do we plan for different financial outcomes such as reductions in funding?"; "how do we deal with cash flow shortages?"; "what measures can we adopt that will leave us stronger when the recession is over?"; "should we consider [a] merger, or strategic alliances?"; "how do we protect our core services?"; "should we borrow and/or open a line of credit and how do we do that?"; "what should our financial strategy be over the long haul?"; or even "how can we turn the recession to our advantage?"

CompassPoint's Silicon Valley office is offering a workshop on selecting and implementing database software on December 14 from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Milpitas, California.