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

    How Purchase Cards Simplify Nonprofit Accounting

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

    June 15, 2023 | 4 min Read
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    Audits

    How Finance Can Partner with Program for Nonprofit Audit Success

    Want to learn more about preparing for a successful audit? This blog post shares tips for how Finance and Program can partner for success.

    June 7, 2023 | 3 min Read

    Financial Reporting

    A Checklist for a Smooth Fiscal Year-End for Your Nonprofit

    There is a shadow lurking behind all the excitement around your next big event. Something is looming behind your next [...]

    May 22, 2023 | 4 min Read

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    Fund Accounting

    How a Segmented Chart of Accounts Reduces Errors in Your Nonprofit Accounting

    To be part of a modern nonprofit financial office is to witness fingers flying over keyboards as information is entered [...]

    May 19, 2023 | 5 min Read

    Financial Reporting

    3 Ways Expense Management Can Help Your Nonprofit Close Its Books Faster

    Can your nonprofit confidently say you are successfully closing the books on time every month—or even most months? As someone [...]

    May 8, 2023 | 3 min Read

    Audits

    4 Ways to Take the Stress Out of Your Nonprofit Remote Audit

    Very few people enjoy being on the organizational side of a nonprofit financial audit. Those people probably enjoy visiting the [...]

    April 12, 2023 | 4 min Read

    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

    Financial Reporting

    Creating the Foundation for a Best-In-Class Nonprofit Finance Team

    Nonprofits rely on their finance teams to educate management and the board on all financial aspects related to the organization. [...]

    March 29, 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

    Fund Accounting

    Modern Nonprofit Tools for Long-Term Success

    When you look to donate money to a charity, what are some considerations that influence your decision? Of course, it’s [...]

    March 3, 2023 | 3 min Read

    Budgeting

    3 Ways to Create Efficiencies in Your Nonprofit’s Monthly Finance Workflow

    I love the saying: Where your attention goes, energy flows. We want to put our energy into the right things [...]

    February 27, 2023 | 4 min Read

    Fund Accounting

    5 Questions about Calculating Your Indirect Cost Rates

    Nonprofit organizations are beginning to use indirect costs more frequently in their budgeting processes, whether or not they are pursuing [...]

    February 9, 2023 | 4 min Read

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    Future of Nonprofit Finance: Cyber Security

    As part of Blackbaud’s series on the Future of Nonprofit Finance, Sarah Curry sat down with George Werbacher, the Senior [...]

    January 19, 2023 |24 min Listen
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    Budgeting

    Making a Case for Calculating Your Nonprofit’s Indirect Costs

    If the 500-piece puzzle you are working on only has 475 pieces, you would not only have gaps in the [...]

    January 16, 2023 | 4 min Read
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