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Documentation

JSN Epic is equipped with very comprehensive documentation package that will help you with template utilization.

• Quick Start Video
  This video gives you a quick-start describing how to configure the template to make it look exactly like the one on the demo server.
• Configuration Manual
  This PDF document gives you detailed description of every template feature. You can print and use this document as a reference every time you want to configure your template.
• Customization Manual
  This PDF document gives you easy-to-understand instruction how to customize template elements to make it suites you or your client.

Support

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• Support Forum
  In the support forum we provide support for everyone who bought the PRO Edition of our products. Here you will get support from our support team as well as thousands of active members.
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  One more great benefit is that we provide support for all questions related not only to the product, but also to your Joomla! configuration.

All JoomlaShine.com templates have special built-in design optimized for modern mobile devices iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile-based.
Unlike other template providers, we do not develop something that looks like a mobile app with heavy menu and animation. We built compact and lightweight version of the template preserving the whole original look-and-feel.

Mobile layout overview

All JoomlaShine templates can be effortlessly configured by template parameters. In template setting page, you will find 48 template parameters arranged into logical groups for convenient operation.

Set parameters without confusion

Most parameters are designed that way that you can simply select options without confusion about what value to define. All parameters are equipped with description text for easier understanding.

Parameters to control layout dimensions

Parameters to control colors & styles

Parameters to control mobile settings

Parameters to control extended styles

At JoomlaShine.com, we put great efforts in optimizing our templates performance by multiple techniques like image sprites application, clean html code output and now one new step CSS/JS Compression.
What it does is to combine all CSS/JS files into a single file and deliver it in GZIP compressed state to browser. This feature significantly reduce http request number to server as well as overall loading size, which results in 35% performance boost.

Custom CSS File(s)

This feature allows you to load multiple custom CSS files among with template default files. This feature is very useful, when you have special dedicated CSS file for content styling.

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Charity Intelligence has created profiles on over 700 Canadian charities that focus on assessing a charity’s transparency and accountability, need for funding, cost efficiency, and, where possible, social impact. 
Charity profiles are created by Ci analysts from publically-available information, including the charities’ audited financial statements, annual reports, websites, and CRA T3010 filings. Ci takes financial information primarily from the charity’s audited financial statements.  These are the most reliable source of financial data, in Ci’s opinion.  The objective of these profiles is to provide consistent analysis on charities, which, for financial analysis, requires full statements, including all financial notes provided by the auditors.  A charity’s regulatory filings are only used when Ci can reconcile these filings with the audited financial statements and when these filings provide a more specific breakdown of line items.
Charity Rating
Charity star ratings are determined using a combination of the metrics that appear on the profiles.  For detail on how these ratings are calculated, please visit our charities-rating-methodology Rating Methodology page.

Social Results Reporting

Charities are rated based on the public reporting of their activities and what they do with donor dollars.  This score does not assess the strength of the charity’s strategy, the quality of its activities, the level of its outputs or the impressiveness of its outcomes; rather, it assess if enough information has been disclosed such that any reader would have the opportunity to make those assessments.  The score is a letter grade based on the relative scoring of the charity compared to all other Canadian charities analyzed.

Financial Transparency Rating

Charity Intelligence believes that the first key step for a charity to be open and transparent is to make its audited financial statements available to donors.

Charities are assessed a rating out of 3 based on their transparency in providing complete audited financial statements, including the financial notes and accounting policies, to the public. If the most recent statements are not available within 9 months of the charity’s year-end, the transparency score is reduced by 1.
Score Description:
3 – Audited financial statements for at least the last 2 years posted on the charity’s website.
2 – Audited financial statements for the most recent year posted on the charity’s website.
1 – Charity provided Charity Intelligence with its audited financial statements upon request by email or telephone.
0 – Charity did not provide Charity Intelligence with its audited financial statements upon request. Financial statements were provided by Canada Revenue Agency.

Need for Funding / Program Cost Coverage

Program cost coverage is a financial ratio for assessing a charity’s need for funding. It compares funding reserves relative to program costs. Funding reserves are calculated as liquid assets of cash, cash equivalents, and investment securities, less interest-bearing liabilities. The program cost coverage ratio is calculated by dividing the year-end funding reserves excluding donor-endowed funds, by the program costs for the year less 5% of donor-endowed funds (or the disbursement rate disclosed by the charity). This is expressed as a percentage. The charity’s funding reserves and program costs are also displayed in a chart.  .

 
Fundraising Costs

Fundraising costs have consistently been presented as gross of fundraising expenses using financial information provided in the auditor’s notes. These fundraising costs are presented as a percentage of donations rather than total revenues. Charities may have different streams of revenues, like interest income, government funding, or lottery profits, but the fundraising costs are a result of the costs of soliciting the public for voluntary donations.

Cents to the Cause

This chart displays how many cents went towards the charity’s programs for each dollar donated. This is calculated by taking 100% less the fundraising ratio, less the administrative cost ratio.  This measures, for every dollar donated, if you take off the share spent to raise that dollar, and then take off the share spent on administrative costs, how much is left over for the charity’s programs. This measure does not take into account whether some of the leftover amount was a surplus that went into funding reserves.
The number 1 question we are asked at Charity Intelligence is “how much of my donation goes to the cause?” In line with our belief that the answer to this question only matters in extreme circumstances, we have created what we call a “reasonable range” for overhead spending, within which 70% of charities fall. This range is displayed in white. If above 95% of cents are directed to the charity’s programs, there are 2 potential issues, thus we have made this a light red zone. First, the charity may not be spending enough on its fundraising and administrative costs to support its operations. And second, the charity may not be appropriately disclosing its overhead costs. Where the cents to the cause is below 65%, this is a caution to donors that the charity may not be operating the most efficiently. When the cents to the cause is below 50%, we have shaded this as dark red to indicate a stronger caution that the charity is spending significantly more on fundraising and administration than the average of 75%.
Impact Rating
Impact Ratings appear on charity profiles for those charities that we have assessed for social impact to date. The Impact Ratings display the social impact produced by the charity for each dollar donated as well as a measure of the quality of the data available to assess the charity’s social impact. For a more detailed description of this metric, please see our social-impact-ratings Social Impact Ratings Methodology page.

Cash flow from operations

Ci presents revenues on a cash basis and excludes non-cash expenses such as depreciation and amortization.  Cash flow from operations is the surplus (deficit) from these adjusted revenues less expenses.

Financial Notes

The financial notes following the Summary Financial Statements explain adjustments made to the financial numbers to provide a consistent basis for comparison.

Salary Information

The information on staff and salaries is sourced from the charity’s most recent T3010 filings with the Canada Revenue Agency. The salary information includes all wages, including any commissions, bonuses, and other benefits. For Charity Intelligence’s findings and position on charity salaries, please read: charity-salaries-a-donor-hot-topic-but-useless-tool-in-intelligent-giving” rel=”alternate Charity Salaries (2015 data)