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DANCE
IDEAS
- RADAR Nonprofit Solutions seeks Remote Accounting Manager
Accounting Manager
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions
Responsibilities of this position include overseeing the accounting activities for various clients in the nonprofit sector. This position reports to the Accounting Director of their assigned team.
The primary responsibilities for this position are as follows:
- Oversee the daily finance operations of the accounting activities for assigned clients
- Conduct monthly bank reconciliations
- Responsible for running monthly reports and financials for assigned clients
- Manage the monthly, quarterly, and year end close processes to ensure all deadlines are met
- Manage the yearly audit and 990 process for assigned clients
- Responsible for creating new GL accounts and answering any questions
- Responsible for reviewing and approving payments and transactions as needed
- Monitors the shared Finance email inboxes for assigned clients
- Ad hoc reporting
Other duties
- Special projects as assigned
- Cross-train in Accounts Payable and Payroll to provide occasional assistance or coverage as needed
Skills and Education:
- Ability and willingness to learn new systems and skills
- Ability to meet deadlines while handling multiple priorities
- Detail oriented and highly organized
- Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Computer literacy in Office Windows environment including proficiency with Excel
- Minimum 3-5 years relevant work experience required
- Background in accounting, finance, or related field required
- Experience with nonprofit accounting preferred
- CPA/CPA eligible or an MBA with a focus in Accounting
RADAR Rundown
- We are a completely remote workforce
- Benefits include employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision options
- We offer a 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- We have an open vacation policy and require employees to take a minimum of 15 days each year
- We value investing in our employees so they can do their best work and we can provide the best service
- For more information, please visit https://radarnp.com/careers/
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our staff is critical to success and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse pool of candidates.
- The Most Popular TikTok Star On The Planet Is Detained By ICE And Leaves The U.S.
Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer with 162 million followers on the video app, was detained at Las Vegas airport for (as an ICE spokesperson put it) “overstaying the terms of his visa.” He was allowed to depart the country without being held to wait for a deportation order. – AP
- This Crisis Of Criticism Seems Different
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth pangs. – N+1
- A Shakespeare Producer Talks About “Translating” A Script Into Comprehensible 21st-Century English
Tracy Young: “I’ve seen nothing to counter the notion that Shakespeare was a populist. All about the people, and the audience’s kind of theater guy. … That to me was the real affirmation of why Play on Shakespeare is worthy. I have no complicated feelings about the rightness or wrongness of it.” – TheaterMania
- How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?
New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on active, outward cognition, such as attention, problem-solving, working memory and decision-making, it’s becoming clear that beneath the surface, our background processing is a hidden hive of activity. – Quanta
ISSUES
- UC Irvine In Negotiations To Run Orange County Museum Of Art
“The university would run the museum. The details are being worked out. Negotiations are ongoing and a finished agreement is months away with the anticipation to have finalization sometime in the fall.” – CultureOC
- Smithsonian Will Conduct Content Review Of Collections after Trump Request
“The board directed the secretary to assess content in museums and make needed changes to ensure unbiased content, including personnel changes,” a Smithsonian spokesman said. – The Wall Street Journal
- Some Of Paris’s Leading Museums And Monuments Are Raising Prices For Non-EU Visitors
“Beginning January 1, 2026, major French museums — including the Louvre and the Château de Versailles — will charge non-European Union visitors €30 (about $35), up from €22 ($25). …The new pricing, described as a ‘differential tariff,’ marks a sharp turn in France’s long-professed commitment to universal access to culture. It’s also triggered a domino effect.” – ARTnews
- Kyiv’s 1,000-Year-Old Cathedral Damaged By Russian Air Attack
St. Sophia, the 11th-century landmark considered the mother church of Orthodox Christianity in Russia and Belarus as well as Ukraine, was damaged by blast waves from bombs dropped on the Ukrainian capital last night by Putin’s armed forces. – Euronews
- Smithsonian Pushes Back Against Trump Over Attempt To Fire Portrait Gallery Director
The statement, which does not mention Trump, Sajet or the NPG, goes on to obliquely rebuke the president’s claims, clarifying that he does not have the authority to fire Smithsonian employees. – The Art Newspaper
MEDIA
- This Crisis Of Criticism Seems Different
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth pangs. – N+1
- Trump DOJ Says President Can Abolish National Monument Protections
The May 27 document, which reverses a legal opinion issued in 1938, could be laying the groundwork for Trump to abolish or dramatically shrink national monuments, which confer federal protections to millions of acres of federal land, much of it in the American West. – Washington Post
- A New Arts-And-Culture Journalism Outlet Is Opening In London
“Founder of culture and city guide Broadsheet Nick Shelton (explains) why the title is expanding from Australia and New Zealand into London. It currently has 85 staff based across Australia and begins its conquest of the London cultural media scene with a team of five later this year.” – Press Gazette (UK)
- Smithsonian’s Board Confirms That Its Chief Executive, Not The U.S. President, Has Hiring And Firing Power
While the Board of Regents (which includes the U.S. Vice President and the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice) didn’t directly address Trump’s attempt to fire National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet, the Board’s statement clearly affirmed that hiring/firing power belongs to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch. – The Washington Post (MSN)
- Trump Takes Over Arts Institutions. But Can He?
Trump may not have the formal capacity to shape the leadership of any of the Smithsonian’s museums, but if others treat him as if he does, then, well, what’s the difference? – The New York Times
MUSIC
- For North America’s Beleaguered Indie Publishers, A New Distributor Is Coming
With the sudden closing of Small Press Distribution last year and the impending disappearance of National Book Network, the avenues for small presses in North America to get their books into retail stores have been evaporating. Enter Stable Distribution, a joint venture of Hachette Book Group and the Stable Book Group. – Publishers Weekly
- How I Rediscovered The Joys Of Reading In BookTok
To read for joy, for wonder, for emotional truth is to hold onto something deeply human. And in a moment when the stories we’re allowed to tell and read are increasingly politicized, if not outright banned, that act feels quietly radical. – The New York Times
- As AI Writing Becomes More Ubiquitous, Will We Change How Humans Write?
Will we now push ourselves to write in a style that means we can’t possibly be confused for AI? Might we try to sound more human, more distinct, more fleshy, and therefore less algorithmic. – 3 Quarks Daily
- Is Poetry Just About The Words? (Not Really)
While what’s lost in translation is admittedly enormous, to conclude that poetry is therefore untranslatable is to fundamentally misrepresent both what poetry is and what translation is. – Poetry Foundation
- In New Fiction, The Subject Of AI Has Moved Beyond The SciFi/Fantasy Genre
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been a staple of science fiction, but editors are seeing a change in how novelists are exploring the subject in light of societal shifts in AI use and familiarity and concern about its implications.” – The Bookseller (UK)
PEOPLE
- RADAR Nonprofit Solutions seeks Remote Accounting Manager
Accounting Manager
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions
Responsibilities of this position include overseeing the accounting activities for various clients in the nonprofit sector. This position reports to the Accounting Director of their assigned team.
The primary responsibilities for this position are as follows:
- Oversee the daily finance operations of the accounting activities for assigned clients
- Conduct monthly bank reconciliations
- Responsible for running monthly reports and financials for assigned clients
- Manage the monthly, quarterly, and year end close processes to ensure all deadlines are met
- Manage the yearly audit and 990 process for assigned clients
- Responsible for creating new GL accounts and answering any questions
- Responsible for reviewing and approving payments and transactions as needed
- Monitors the shared Finance email inboxes for assigned clients
- Ad hoc reporting
Other duties
- Special projects as assigned
- Cross-train in Accounts Payable and Payroll to provide occasional assistance or coverage as needed
Skills and Education:
- Ability and willingness to learn new systems and skills
- Ability to meet deadlines while handling multiple priorities
- Detail oriented and highly organized
- Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Computer literacy in Office Windows environment including proficiency with Excel
- Minimum 3-5 years relevant work experience required
- Background in accounting, finance, or related field required
- Experience with nonprofit accounting preferred
- CPA/CPA eligible or an MBA with a focus in Accounting
RADAR Rundown
- We are a completely remote workforce
- Benefits include employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision options
- We offer a 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- We have an open vacation policy and require employees to take a minimum of 15 days each year
- We value investing in our employees so they can do their best work and we can provide the best service
- For more information, please visit https://radarnp.com/careers/
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our staff is critical to success and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse pool of candidates.
- The Most Popular TikTok Star On The Planet Is Detained By ICE And Leaves The U.S.
Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer with 162 million followers on the video app, was detained at Las Vegas airport for (as an ICE spokesperson put it) “overstaying the terms of his visa.” He was allowed to depart the country without being held to wait for a deportation order. – AP
- This Crisis Of Criticism Seems Different
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth pangs. – N+1
- A Shakespeare Producer Talks About “Translating” A Script Into Comprehensible 21st-Century English
Tracy Young: “I’ve seen nothing to counter the notion that Shakespeare was a populist. All about the people, and the audience’s kind of theater guy. … That to me was the real affirmation of why Play on Shakespeare is worthy. I have no complicated feelings about the rightness or wrongness of it.” – TheaterMania
- How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?
New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on active, outward cognition, such as attention, problem-solving, working memory and decision-making, it’s becoming clear that beneath the surface, our background processing is a hidden hive of activity. – Quanta
PEOPLE
- RADAR Nonprofit Solutions seeks Remote Accounting Manager
Accounting Manager
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions
Responsibilities of this position include overseeing the accounting activities for various clients in the nonprofit sector. This position reports to the Accounting Director of their assigned team.
The primary responsibilities for this position are as follows:
- Oversee the daily finance operations of the accounting activities for assigned clients
- Conduct monthly bank reconciliations
- Responsible for running monthly reports and financials for assigned clients
- Manage the monthly, quarterly, and year end close processes to ensure all deadlines are met
- Manage the yearly audit and 990 process for assigned clients
- Responsible for creating new GL accounts and answering any questions
- Responsible for reviewing and approving payments and transactions as needed
- Monitors the shared Finance email inboxes for assigned clients
- Ad hoc reporting
Other duties
- Special projects as assigned
- Cross-train in Accounts Payable and Payroll to provide occasional assistance or coverage as needed
Skills and Education:
- Ability and willingness to learn new systems and skills
- Ability to meet deadlines while handling multiple priorities
- Detail oriented and highly organized
- Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Computer literacy in Office Windows environment including proficiency with Excel
- Minimum 3-5 years relevant work experience required
- Background in accounting, finance, or related field required
- Experience with nonprofit accounting preferred
- CPA/CPA eligible or an MBA with a focus in Accounting
RADAR Rundown
- We are a completely remote workforce
- Benefits include employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision options
- We offer a 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- We have an open vacation policy and require employees to take a minimum of 15 days each year
- We value investing in our employees so they can do their best work and we can provide the best service
- For more information, please visit https://radarnp.com/careers/
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our staff is critical to success and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse pool of candidates.
- The Most Popular TikTok Star On The Planet Is Detained By ICE And Leaves The U.S.
Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer with 162 million followers on the video app, was detained at Las Vegas airport for (as an ICE spokesperson put it) “overstaying the terms of his visa.” He was allowed to depart the country without being held to wait for a deportation order. – AP
- This Crisis Of Criticism Seems Different
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth pangs. – N+1
- A Shakespeare Producer Talks About “Translating” A Script Into Comprehensible 21st-Century English
Tracy Young: “I’ve seen nothing to counter the notion that Shakespeare was a populist. All about the people, and the audience’s kind of theater guy. … That to me was the real affirmation of why Play on Shakespeare is worthy. I have no complicated feelings about the rightness or wrongness of it.” – TheaterMania
- How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?
New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on active, outward cognition, such as attention, problem-solving, working memory and decision-making, it’s becoming clear that beneath the surface, our background processing is a hidden hive of activity. – Quanta
THEATRE
VISUAL
- How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?
New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on active, outward cognition, such as attention, problem-solving, working memory and decision-making, it’s becoming clear that beneath the surface, our background processing is a hidden hive of activity. – Quanta
- Good Taste Will Be Even More Important In The Age Of AI
Taste is a subtle sensibility, more often a secret weapon than a person’s defining characteristic. But we’re entering a time when its importance has never been greater, and that’s because of AI. – The Atlantic
- What Monet Understood About Evoking A Place
This immersiveness does not come from an illusion of being in three dimensions – the opposite, in fact. Monet does a few subtle things that destabilise the elements of the perspective. – Psyche
- The Truth About Finding Your Own Creativity
The myth of the genius is that these individuals woke up one morning and excelled. As a result, too many people are convinced that either you’re creative and you just happen to be able to find flow, or you’re not and you don’t. – Aeon
- What Set Marc Maron’s Podcast Apart
Sure, now everyone (and their annoying friend) has a podcast, but not in 2009, when Maron got his start with WTF. “The podcast made me feel as if … I could also come back from career humiliation in a way that could be creatively satisfying.” – The New York Times