bbcon

Nonprofit Finance Leaders: Add these bbcon 2022 Sessions to Your Agenda

Incorporating automation. Having more detailed reporting. Being recession-proof. If any of these topics are showing up on your nonprofit organization’s [...]

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.

Change Management

Good, Better, Best: How to Become a Tech-Powered Nonprofit

Nonprofits operate on trust. To thrive in today’s philanthropic environment, nonprofits must demonstrate to donors and community stakeholders that their [...]

Donor Management

Got Silos in Your Nonprofit? It’s Time to Build Some Bridges!

Meet Barbara and Alan As a nonprofit technology consultant, I spend a lot of time talking with people about their [...]

Internal Controls

Breaking Silos: Standardizing Accounting Methodologies in a Catholic Diocese

The Catholic Church runs the largest network of private schools in the United States, with thousands of primary and secondary [...]

Internal Controls

Increasing Organizational Buy-in When Building a Culture of Strong Internal Controls

Here are 7 practices to help your nonprofit build a string internal control system that will increase buy-in today and stand the test of time for the future.

Financial Reporting

How Nonprofits Can Build Trust with Strong Internal Controls

Internal controls will minimize the risk of a nonprofit violating policies, regulations, and laws.

Audits

Kicking Off a Virtual Audit

As we trend towards a sense of normalcy in 2022, the convenience and cost savings of remote audits are here [...]

Fund Accounting

Building Connections Between Finance & Development

How can finance and fundraising departments better work with each other? Why does it matter? Often, these disparate personalities find [...]

Budgeting

Ask the Experts: Simple Budgeting for Community Health Centers

Federal grants complicate the budgeting process. You have to consider a lot of different scenarios, and you don’t have any [...]

Donor Management

Don’t Get Lost in Translation: What Finance Needs from the Development System

Nonprofit financial reporting is the responsibility of the finance team. But in a fundraising organization, Finance is heavily dependent on [...]

Financial Reporting

Solving the Plight of Church Bookkeepers with Financial Edge NXT

Gail Burdette works tirelessly as the bookkeeper at her church. She has faithfully served on the church staff for 27 [...]

Budgeting

Preparing for Budget Shifts

There’s always something that can throw your organization’s budget off track. Some crises are worse than others – the COVID-19 [...]

The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 177: Storytelling with Financials

Learn how to communicate your social good organization's financials with transparency and impact to staff, board members, donors and other stakeholders.