Data Management

Connect the Dots: Building a Complete View of Your Supporters

Nonprofits and schools face a persistent challenge: constituent data is fragmented, inconsistent, and often duplicated across systems. As donor relationships [...]

June 9, 2025| 4 min Read

End-of-Year Giving

What is GivingTuesday? A Nonprofit’s Guide to a Global Giving Movement

June 18, 2025| 5 min Read

Financial Reporting

4 Nonprofit Financial Statements and How to Create Them

June 18, 2025| 4 min Read

Grants Strategy

Understanding the Grant Lifecycle: Info for Nonprofits

June 12, 2025| 5 min Read

Online Giving

The Impact of User-Friendly Donation Forms

June 12, 2025| 4 min Read

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Process Automation

5 Accounting Workflows Your Nonprofit Can Begin Automating Today

You work hard to keep your nonprofit finance office running smoothly. But some days, you feel like you’re swimming through [...]

July 2, 2025 | 6 min Read

Change Management

Listening for the Beat of Change: Conversational Grantmaking Where Accountability Demands Listening

Today, nonprofit leaders are navigating a challenging and ever-changing political and financial environment. According to the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s [...]

July 2, 2025 | 7 min Read

Fund Accounting

Nonprofit Accounting vs. For-Profit Accounting:  How They Are Different and Why Nonprofits Should Care 

Accounting is an essential part of any ongoing enterprise. It is the meticulous process of recording and organizing financial transactions [...]

July 2, 2025 | 8 min Read

Grantee Partnerships

Researching Your Grantmaker: 3 Questions to Consider

Let’s be honest: Not all grants are a good fit for your nonprofit. It can be easy to get caught [...]

July 2, 2025 | 4 min Read

Compliance

Understanding Endowments: Purpose, Protection, and Stewardship

Endowments are a vital part of how many organizations and universities thrive, yet they’re often misunderstood. Like many financial instruments [...]

July 1, 2025 | 4 min Read

Community Engagement

Prevention with Purpose: Making Summer Safety a Strategic Community Benefit

“School’s out for summer!” It’s the anthem of joy as kids burst from classrooms, cars blast music in school parking [...]

June 30, 2025 | 3 min Read

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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Try a New P2P Challenge: Tips to Move Beyond Run-Walk-Bike Events

March 11, 2025 | 6 min Read

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Give Your Peer-to-Peer Events New Energy with Activity Tracking

March 22, 2024 | 4 min Read

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

What Makes Team Fundraising Unique? 3 Key Differences

December 13, 2023 | 5 min Read

Community Engagement

How Can I Raise More Money with My 5K?

The 2016 Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study gives us interesting insights into different types of fundraising events, like how to raise more with 5Ks.

June 11, 2025| 5 min Read

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Strategic Planning

3 Imperatives for the Modern Nonprofit CFO in the Digital Age

As nonprofit finance leaders, we are charged with empowering our teams with the technology, skills, and support they need to [...]

November 3, 2022 | 5 min Read

Donor Cultivation

Engaging Your Donor Community: 5 School Fundraising Tips

Fundraising is often a necessity for schools to provide students and teachers with resources that set them up for success. [...]

April 10, 2023 | 5 min Read
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Grants Strategy

10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

Making impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough grant proposal evaluation. Be sure you're looking for these 9 things.

December 1, 2022 | 3 min Read

Grants Strategy

Types of Grants That Every Nonprofit Should Know

Of the many ways a nonprofit organization can get funding, grants often seem like the holy grail. Fill out a [...]

March 21, 2025 | 9 min Read

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Online Giving

The Impact of User-Friendly Donation Forms

If online giving is part of your organization’s fundraising strategy, user-friendly donation forms are essential for maximizing donor engagement, conversion [...]

June 12, 2025 | 4 min Read

Donor Cultivation

Philanthropy Is for the Optimists: How to Build a Shared Sense of Purpose

Be real, but believe. To remain an optimist as a fundraiser, you must be real especially about the challenges of [...]

May 20, 2025 | 5 min Read

Donor Cultivation

8 Simple Tactics You Need in Your Fundraising Strategy Toolkit

Nonprofits work tirelessly to make a difference in their communities, and fundraising is often a vital yet challenging part of [...]

May 1, 2025 | 5 min Read
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Financial Reporting

4 Nonprofit Financial Statements and How to Create Them

Effective financial management equips you to make the most of your nonprofit’s limited resources. To produce meaningful reports to help [...]

June 18, 2025 | 4 min Read

Budgeting

10 Steps to Creating an Effective Nonprofit Budget

Imagine you’re preparing for a long road trip across unfamiliar terrain. You wouldn’t set out without a map, a plan [...]

June 5, 2025 | 5 min Read

Fund Accounting

How Purchase Cards Simplify Nonprofit Accounting

Lost receipts, multiple tracking spreadsheets, and unchecked spending, oh my! Does this sound like your month-end scramble? These hurdles are [...]

May 20, 2025 | 4 min Read
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Awards and Scholarships

5 Strategies to Strengthen Your Scholarship Process

Is your scholarship process outdated, difficult for students to navigate, and a challenge for you to manage? These are common [...]

June 5, 2025 | 3 min Read

Tuition and Financial Aid

Improve Your Student Billing Process

Are you struggling with an inefficient student billing process? You are not alone. Many educational institutions face the challenge of [...]

March 24, 2025 | 4 min Read

Awards and Scholarships

Choosing a Scholarship Award Management System

Scholarship administrators have a lot to manage. They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who [...]

January 28, 2025 | 4 min Read
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Change Management

What It Means to be a Connected K–12 School

The definition of “a connected school” could be many different things. Each description, at its core, stems from the answer [...]

October 29, 2024 | 7 min Read

Data Management

Information: The Better Half of IT

We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology. As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half—the [...]

April 17, 2024 | 5 min Read

Tuition and Financial Aid

How to Improve On-Time Tuition Payments

Private and independent schools rely on tuition to fund operations. In its 2023–2024 Trendbook, the National Association of Independent Schools [...]

October 20, 2023 | 5 min Read
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Employee Wellness

Challenges of Establishing an Employee Relief Fund (ERF) and Recommended Solutions

The growth in Employee Relief Funds (ERFs) exploded in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 began to affect companies and [...]

September 8, 2021 | 4 min Read
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Change Management

Responsive Philanthropy: How to Address Community Needs in Time of Crisis

Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice, a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. The [...]

January 13, 2023 | 6 min Read
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Volunteer Management

How the Pandemic Has Changed Pro Bono

The pandemic pushed the social sector to make game-changing shifts in community programming, funding models and organizational leadership. Nonprofits that pivoted their programming in [...]

October 18, 2021 | 3 min Read
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Compliance

Conflict of Interest Guidelines Every Grantmaker Should Follow

Humans are complicated creatures. While, as grantmakers, you see a lot of amazing work humans do every day, you also [...]

May 19, 2025 | 6 min Read

Community Engagement

5 Ways Funders Can Address Nonprofit Burnout

Nonprofits play a critical role in addressing our most pressing issues and addressing gaps for the most vulnerable among us. [...]

April 9, 2025 | 5 min Read

Grantee Partnerships

Innovative Approaches for Grantmakers to Address Grantee Well-Being

Economic fluctuations, policy changes, climate events, and rapid advances in technology are just a few of the factors fundamentally reshaping [...]

March 18, 2025 | 6 min Read
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Crisis Management

How Savvy Organizations Weather Uncertain Times

Preparing for the unknown is a tenant of leadership in today’s ever-changing economic, political, and cultural landscape—and those who know [...]

June 11, 2025 | 4 min Read

Manager Skills

3 Ways to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Leadership Approach

When it comes to employee satisfaction in the nonprofit sector, the writing is on the wall—nonprofits have the highest turnover [...]

June 3, 2025 | 3 min Read

Employee Engagement

Why Should Nonprofits Invest in Professional Development?

Nonprofits face a critical question: How do we build stronger, more sustainable organizations that can make a lasting impact? The [...]

May 30, 2025 | 5 min Read
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