Carrie Watkins

Carrie Watkins is a senior content marketing manager at Blackbaud and has been writing about complex topics in the banking, technology, education, and nonprofit industries for more than 20 years. Before joining Blackbaud, she led the marketing initiatives for an educational technology nonprofit working to lower the cost of college credit. She regularly volunteers with organizations that focus on food insecurity in her community and has a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri.

Articles by Carrie Watkins

Compliance

4 Reasons Why Government Agencies Need Fund Accounting Software

As a government agency, your team is used to doing more with less. But just because your accounting is complicated—with [...]

April 11, 2023 | 4 min Read

Compliance

5 Advantages of Grants Management Software

The person who coined the term “cat herding” may have been a grants manager. From applications to reviews to reporting, [...]

April 7, 2023 | 5 min Read

Data Health

Trends in Grantmaking: Putting Equitable Grantmaking into Practice

Having a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workspace is the right thing to do. But above that, the evidence is irrefutable: [...]

March 31, 2023 | 4 min Read

Board Management

The Benefits of One Story: Communicating Financial Information to Your Nonprofit Board

The members of your nonprofit’s Board of Directors are many things: knowledgeable and successful in their areas of focus, community [...]

March 28, 2023 | 5 min Read

Grants Strategy

Trends in Grantmaking: Bring Your Community into Your Decision-Making Through Participatory Grantmaking

Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and [...]

March 27, 2023 | 4 min Read

Grants Strategy

Trends in Grantmaking: Achieving Lasting Impact Through Trust-Based Philanthropy

Trust must be earned. “Earning” denotes work. And that work can come in a variety of forms: work by your [...]

March 21, 2023 | 4 min Read

Data Management

Trends in Grantmaking: Don’t Leave Your Foundation’s Impact Story to Chance

If a grantmaking organization creates a funding opportunity, but there is no way for anyone to hear about it, does [...]

March 10, 2023 | 4 min Read

Employee Wellness

Trends in Grantmaking: Workplace Wellness for Grantmakers and the Nonprofits They Support 

Employee burnout was around long before the transition from work to home meant moving to a different cushion on the [...]

March 7, 2023 | 3 min Read

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

Change Management

Shifts in Nonprofit Finance: Looking Back at 30 Years of Evolving Technology

Manual typewriters. Paper checks. Handwritten ledger books. A bottle of bleach at the ready for ink-inscribed mistakes. This isn’t the [...]

January 3, 2023 | 4 min Read