Budgeting

How to Overcome Common Challenges in Your Nonprofit Budget Approval Process

Navigating the budget approval process in nonprofit organizations can sometimes feel like a maze full of frustrating dead ends. You [...]

May 12, 2025| 5 min Read

Data Management

How ASC 958-205 and UPMIFA Enhance Endowment Transparency

April 15, 2025| 4 min Read

Compliance

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

April 3, 2025| 4 min Read

Grants Strategy

Types of Grants That Every Nonprofit Should Know

March 21, 2025| 9 min Read

Donor Stewardship

Build Trust by Integrating Your Fundraising and Finance Systems

March 10, 2025| 5 min Read

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    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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    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

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    Future of Nonprofit Finance: Cryptocurrency

    As part of the series Future of Nonprofit Finance, Blackbaud’s Sarah Curry sits down with Alex Wilson, the Co-Founder of [...]

    December 29, 2022 |19 min Listen
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    The 10 Most Popular ENGAGE Articles Published in 2022

    Hundreds of ENGAGE articles have been written by outstanding leaders and subject matter experts across the social good community in [...]

    December 19, 2022 | 2 min Read
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    Diversity Equity and Inclusion

    How COVID-19 Changed the Nonprofit and Local Government Funding and Reporting Landscape

    If you’re a nonprofit or local government agency or work alongside them, there is a good chance you have seen [...]

    November 28, 2022 | 4 min Read
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    Fundraising Measurement

    Building the Business Case and Proving the ROI of Your Extensibility Project

    Everywhere we turn, we hear talk of automation. Large and small nonprofits are finding ways to automate repetitive tasks, reach [...]

    November 14, 2022 | 5 min Read
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    3 Imperatives for the Modern Nonprofit CFO in the Digital Age

    As nonprofit finance leaders, we are charged with empowering our teams with the technology, skills, and support they need to [...]

    November 3, 2022 | 5 min Read

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    Nonprofit Pro’s Cheat Sheet to bbcon 2022 Virtual

    As a busy fundraiser or nonprofit data professional, your calendar is already packed, so wouldn’t it be great to have [...]

    October 13, 2022 | 4 min Read

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    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 [...]

    October 11, 2022 | 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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    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 [...]

    September 8, 2022 | 5 min Read
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    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 [...]

    August 22, 2022 | 5 min Read
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