Abila has added MIP Fund Accounting to its Elevate fundraising platform. The update to Elevate includes integration with hosted versions of the desktop-based fund accounting and cloud-based MIP Advance. Additional enhancements include bulk acknowledgements, consolidation of gift attributes, and improvements around Chart of Accounts importing.

A five-year-old recently destroyed a $15,000 Lego sculpture within an hour of the exhibit's opening in China. I think it's safe to say that whoever was responsible for security has never been a parent with young children. When my daughter was that age, I wouldn't let her around a dollar set of glassware unsupervised. ... News reports continue to appear about the discovery of a small number of Nile crocodiles in Florida. They are much like their American counterparts except for being bigger, more aggressive and showing a taste for people.

SSI Consulting has been chosen as a Partner of the Year by Unanet, which makes on-premise and cloud-based project accounting applications. The other two firms honored both serve government contractors. These are Strategic Consulting Solutions and Redstone GCI. Vienna, Va.-based SSI, which became a Unanet referral partner in 2008, is now a full-fledged reseller. SSI, led by Bill Aiton, also offers Dynamics GP and SL and Intacct.