Data Health

The Cornerstone of Financial Stability: Accounting System Setup and Data Health for Nonprofits

For nonprofits, every dollar is mission-critical, and every decision impacts lives. The finance team shoulders immense responsibility to make sure [...]

April 16, 2025| 3 min Read

Compliance

Mitigating Fraud at Your Not-For-Profit: Lessons Learned

April 3, 2025| 4 min Read

Internal Controls

How to Develop Scalable AP Policies for Your Nonprofit

September 19, 2024| 4 min Read

Process Automation

4 Ways Automation Streamlines AP for Lean Finance Teams

December 17, 2024| 3 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

    Why Your Fund Accounting System Needs a Strong Partner Network

    There was a time when you had to find one single solution that hopefully met the majority of your needs [...]

    November 6, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Grants Strategy

    10 Tips for Better Grant Management Processes

    While grant funding may not require the continual stewardship efforts and nurturing of traditional donor-led funding, it often presents its [...]

    September 25, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Fund Accounting

    5 Questions to Ask Your Fund Accounting Vendor

    When your nonprofit is looking to change its financial system, it would be nice to have a crystal ball. You’d [...]

    September 13, 2023 | 4 min Read

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    How Your Finance and Program Teams Can Work Together to Ensure Grant Compliance

    As Winston Churchill said, with great power comes great responsibility, and nowhere is that felt more acutely than those who [...]

    September 7, 2023 | 6 min Read

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    Nonprofit Finance Leaders: Don’t Miss These bbcon 2023 Sessions

    The annual conference celebrating Blackbaud’s ecosystem of changemakers is back and in person this year! In addition to getting to [...]

    September 5, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Fund Accounting

    4 Best Practices for Setting Your Accounting Team Up for Success Next Year

    It’s that time of year again—you’ve finally made it through your fiscal year-end, closed all your books easily, and had [...]

    September 1, 2023 | 3 min Read

    Strategic Planning

    The Hat Trick: Aligning Your School’s Three Revenue Teams

    In sports, a “hat trick” is when a player scores three goals in a single game. The phrase dates back [...]

    August 30, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Change Management

    Meeting Today’s Challenges: Why Your Organization Needs a Modern CFO

    Once, when asked what I do for a living, I responded, “I’m a CFO for nonprofits.” Instead of getting a [...]

    August 29, 2023 | 5 min Read

    Budgeting

    Evaluating and Streamlining Your Annual Budgeting Process

    Tips to help social good organizations streamline and improve the annual budgeting process.

    August 23, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Fund Accounting

    Form 990: What You Need to Know About Filing for Your Nonprofit

    It may feel like very few things involving the IRS are straightforward. But when it comes to nonprofit tax exemption, [...]

    August 2, 2023 | 5 min Read

    Budgeting

    5 Ways Fund Accounting Software Makes Nonprofit Budgeting Simple

    Building your nonprofit budget is often like putting together a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. You know what you want it to [...]

    July 24, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Budgeting

    What to Do When Your Nonprofit Budget Gets Blindsided

    With quickly evolving community needs and the ever-present possibility of a climate event or economic downturn, nonprofits know how to [...]

    July 3, 2023 | 3 min Read

    Board Management

    The Final Step of the Audit: Helping Your Board Understand the Nonprofit Audit Report

    Your nonprofit audit should reinforce the good work that you do. This post shares tips for how to effectively share your financial statements with your board.

    June 20, 2023 | 3 min Read
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    Preparing for Your School or Nonprofit Financial Audit: Identifying Risks and Establishing Strong Internal Controls

    The annual audit is often viewed as a chore.This blog post shares expert advice on how to prepare by targeting risks and measuring performance and compliance.

    June 15, 2023 | 5 min Read
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