Risk Management

Navigating a Government Shutdown When Your Organization Receives Federal Funds

As a nonprofit finance professional, have you added “navigating uncertainty” to your resume yet? The U.S. government shut down on [...]

October 1, 2025| 3 min Read

Change Management

Change Management: 4-Step Guide to CRM Implementation

October 1, 2025| 5 min Read

Community Engagement

5 Reasons Funders Should Exercise Their Convening Power to Meet this Moment

September 16, 2025| 5 min Read

Professional Development

4 Ways to Use Quick Formative Assessments in Your Classroom

September 10, 2025| 2 min Read

Planned Giving

Smarter Planned Giving Strategies: Using Data and Stewardship to Build Legacy

September 8, 2025| 3 min Read

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Budgeting

From Stock Picks to School Budgets: My Deep Dive into Educational Finance

I’ll be honest—I’ve always been a bit of a finance nerd. While other people were checking social media over their [...]

October 8, 2025 | 7 min Read

End-of-Year Giving

How to Optimize Your Donation Forms for GivingTuesday Success

It’s hard to believe that GivingTuesday is right around the corner! Whether your organization is gearing up for a big [...]

October 8, 2025 | 2 min Read

Data Management

Endowment Fund Management: 5 Effective Accounting Tips

Endowments are the result of a successful long-term strategic plan. Through major giving and capital campaigns, your organization has created [...]

October 8, 2025 | 4 min Read

Financial Reporting

10 Best Practices for Strong Nonprofit Financial Management

Smart money moves are vital for nonprofits. You’ve got to use funds wisely, aligning with your mission and honoring donor [...]

October 7, 2025 | 12 min Read

Change Management

How to Evaluate the Best Time for Your K–12 Private School to Implement Fund Accounting Software

They say that if you want something done, give it to a busy person because they know how to manage [...]

October 2, 2025 | 4 min Read

Change Management

How a Proactive Approach Made Our School’s Software Implementation a Success

You know that book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? Well, taking that a step further, [...]

October 1, 2025 | 7 min Read

Operating Reserves

Fund Accounting

5 Reasons Your Nonprofit Needs an Operating Reserve

September 21, 2022 | 3 min Read

Fund Accounting

Operating Reserves as a Key Indicator of Financial Health

January 9, 2025 | 5 min Read

Internal Controls

Managing Your Operating Reserves During and After an Emergency

February 14, 2025 | 4 min Read

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Fund Accounting

7 Step Policy Guide for Creating Operating Reserves

Establishing and documenting a formal reserves policy is a best practice that should be adopted by all nonprofits.

September 26, 2022| 4 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

Digital Marketing

The Power of Podcasting: Making Audio Content for Nonprofits

Your nonprofit relies on storytelling to forge emotional connections with potential supporters and spread awareness of your mission. As technology [...]

January 17, 2024 | 4 min Read

Major Gifts

How The Salvation Army Uses Power BI to Boost Major Giving

To help major gift officers focus on donors instead of desk work, The Salvation Army Southern Territory has begun using [...]

October 8, 2024 | 5 min Read
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Outcomes Measurement

Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

For years, we’ve used language from for-profit businesses to explain nonprofit organizational activity. However, that's made it more difficult to explain the critical connection between financials, fundraising, and mission delivery.

October 4, 2018 | 4 min Read

 

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Outcomes Reporting

4 Elements of a Compelling Nonprofit Case for Support

You’ve scoured your database to identify major giving prospects; you’ve spent months cultivating relationships; and now it’s finally time to [...]

September 29, 2025 | 4 min Read
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Data Insights

How to Use Data to Improve Prospect Identification

I have always found one of the most exciting things about the nonprofit sector to be its diversity. Nonprofits encompass [...]

September 22, 2025 | 6 min Read

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
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Data Management

Endowment Fund Management: 5 Effective Accounting Tips

Endowments are the result of a successful long-term strategic plan. Through major giving and capital campaigns, your organization has created [...]

October 8, 2025 | 4 min Read

Change Management

Advice for a New Nonprofit CFO: Expectations and Tips from Real Financial Leaders

You’ve landed the nonprofit CFO role—congratulations! Now comes the hard part: creating better solutions for the “temporary” Excel workarounds that [...]

September 24, 2025 | 7 min Read

Risk Management

Nonprofit Risk Management Strategies: Complete Implementation Guide

Every nonprofit loves a little publicity: an innovative program that solves a real need or a prominent community member highlighting [...]

September 11, 2025 | 7 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

Student Experience

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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Professional Development

4 Ways to Use Quick Formative Assessments in Your Classroom

Formative assessments are an effective way to gauge short term student progress. Learn how to implement them in your class from the experts at Blackbaud! [...]

September 10, 2025 | 2 min Read

Artificial Intelligence

Transforming K–12 Education: Insights on AI from Industry Leaders

Remember when the biggest technological disruption in your classroom was deciding whether to use PowerPoint or that new interactive whiteboard? [...]

July 9, 2025 | 4 min Read

Enrollment and Retention

Private School Admissions: Breaking Down the Data

The private school admissions process is increasingly competitive, requiring smarter strategies and more innovative tools. Whether yours is a small [...]

June 11, 2025 | 6 min Read
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Disaster Response

Corporate Responsibility’s Role During Disaster Response

The unexpected news of a disaster occurring can disrupt the communities that businesses serve and where their employees and customers work and live in. So what does CSR look like during these difficult times?

November 12, 2024 | 3 min Read

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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Community Engagement

5 Reasons Funders Should Exercise Their Convening Power to Meet this Moment

As funders, it’s hard to know how best to use limited resources to best benefit your communities, grantees, and issue [...]

September 16, 2025 | 5 min Read

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Bridging the Empathy Gap: Fueling Collaborative Impact in the Social Sector

Most of us enter the social impact space with a fervent desire to change the world. We meticulously build solutions, [...]

September 2, 2025 | 6 min Read

Data Insights

How Grantmakers Can (and Should) Get Started with Research

Now is an important time for small and mid-sized foundations to engage in research activities. Institutional foundations are fighting to [...]

June 17, 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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