Budgeting

Cost Optimization for Nonprofit CFOs: Your Mission-Driven Playbook for Doing More with Less 

You are in nonprofit finance. “Doing more with less” is in the job description. But good cost optimization walks a [...]

December 1, 2025| 4 min Read

Internal Controls

How to Manage Internal Controls with a Small Nonprofit Accounting Team

November 11, 2025| 4 min Read

Donor Cultivation

Art of the Ask: 10 Steps to a Yes

November 1, 2025| 2 min Read

Change Management

How Development and Finance Can Get Along (Really!)

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Giving Tuesday

Your Guide to a Winning GivingTuesday Text Messaging Strategy

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9 Years Strong: Blackbaud Wins Big at 2025 WebAwards

Celebrating Excellence in Educational Website Design Blackbaud has done it again! At the 2025 WebAwards, two Blackbaud school websites earned [...]

December 3, 2025 | 2 min Read

Artificial Intelligence

3 Ways AI is Making Wealth Screening More Effective

The nonprofit sector is embracing artificial intelligence. In fact, more than 80% of respondents in a recent report from Blackbaud [...]

December 3, 2025 | 3 min Read

End-of-Year Giving

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year to Give: Cultivating End-of-Year Giving through a Community Benefit Lens

Each winter, the holiday season brings a natural spirit of giving, from food drives, coat collections, toy donations, and acts [...]

December 3, 2025 | 3 min Read

Endowments

Ensuring Utilization of Spendable Funds in Endowment Management: A Practice Guide for the Finance Office

Accurately identifying and utilizing your endowment’s spendable balances is one of the most powerful ways your organization can strengthen donor [...]

December 2, 2025 | 6 min Read

Artificial Intelligence

The Future of Advancement: Human Connection and AI in Education

Blackbaud’s recent eBook, The Forward-Thinking Nonprofit: Leading Through Change, offers insights from 19 sector experts. From navigating economic instability to [...]

November 26, 2025 | 4 min Read

Change Management

What’s Missing? Building a Connected Nonprofit from the Inside Out

Nonprofits understand gaps—gaps in funding, gaps in services, gaps in outcomes. But what about the gaps within our own organizations? [...]

November 25, 2025 | 4 min Read

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Artificial Intelligence

Building an Equitable Future for AI in the Nonprofit Sector

November 10, 2025 | 4 min Read

Budgeting

5 Tips for Budgeting During a Nonprofit Leadership Transition

October 24, 2025 | 4 min Read

Change Management

Change Management: 4-Step Guide to CRM Implementation

October 1, 2025 | 5 min Read

Change Management

What’s Missing? Building a Connected Nonprofit from the Inside Out

Nonprofits understand gaps—gaps in funding, gaps in services, gaps in outcomes. But what about the gaps within our own organizations? [...]

November 25, 2025| 4 min Read

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Grants Strategy

10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

Making impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough grant proposal evaluation. Be sure you're looking for these 9 things.

December 1, 2022 | 3 min Read

Digital Marketing

The Power of Podcasting: Making Audio Content for Nonprofits

Your nonprofit relies on storytelling to forge emotional connections with potential supporters and spread awareness of your mission. As technology [...]

January 17, 2024 | 4 min Read

Major Gifts

How The Salvation Army Uses Power BI to Boost Major Giving

To help major gift officers focus on donors instead of desk work, The Salvation Army Southern Territory has begun using [...]

October 8, 2024 | 5 min Read
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Outcomes Measurement

Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

For years, we’ve used language from for-profit businesses to explain nonprofit organizational activity. However, that's made it more difficult to explain the critical connection between financials, fundraising, and mission delivery.

October 4, 2018 | 4 min Read
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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.

April 18, 2022 | 4 min Read

Outcomes Reporting

4 Elements of a Compelling Nonprofit Case for Support

You’ve scoured your database to identify major giving prospects; you’ve spent months cultivating relationships; and now it’s finally time to [...]

September 29, 2025 | 4 min Read
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Data Insights

How to Use Data to Improve Prospect Identification

I have always found one of the most exciting things about the nonprofit sector to be its diversity. Nonprofits encompass [...]

September 22, 2025 | 6 min Read

Online Giving

The Impact of User-Friendly Donation Forms

If online giving is part of your organization’s fundraising strategy, user-friendly donation forms are essential for maximizing donor engagement, conversion [...]

June 12, 2025 | 4 min Read
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Data Management

Endowment Fund Management: 5 Effective Accounting Tips

Endowments are the result of a successful long-term strategic plan. Through major giving and capital campaigns, your organization has created [...]

October 8, 2025 | 4 min Read

Change Management

Advice for a New Nonprofit CFO: Expectations and Tips from Real Financial Leaders

You’ve landed the nonprofit CFO role—congratulations! Now comes the hard part: creating better solutions for the “temporary” Excel workarounds that [...]

September 24, 2025 | 7 min Read

Risk Management

Nonprofit Risk Management Strategies: Complete Implementation Guide

Every nonprofit loves a little publicity: an innovative program that solves a real need or a prominent community member highlighting [...]

September 11, 2025 | 7 min Read
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Awards and Scholarships

5 Strategies to Strengthen Your Scholarship Process

Is your scholarship process outdated, difficult for students to navigate, and a challenge for you to manage? These are common [...]

June 5, 2025 | 3 min Read

Student Experience

Improve Your Student Billing Process

Are you struggling with an inefficient student billing process? You are not alone. Many educational institutions face the challenge of [...]

March 24, 2025 | 4 min Read

Awards and Scholarships

Choosing a Scholarship Award Management System

Scholarship administrators have a lot to manage. They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who [...]

January 28, 2025 | 4 min Read
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Professional Development

4 Ways to Use Quick Formative Assessments in Your Classroom

Formative assessments are an effective way to gauge short term student progress. Learn how to implement them in your class from the experts at Blackbaud! [...]

September 10, 2025 | 2 min Read

Artificial Intelligence

Transforming K–12 Education: Insights on AI from Industry Leaders

Remember when the biggest technological disruption in your classroom was deciding whether to use PowerPoint or that new interactive whiteboard? [...]

July 9, 2025 | 4 min Read

Enrollment and Retention

Private School Admissions: Breaking Down the Data

The private school admissions process is increasingly competitive, requiring smarter strategies and more innovative tools. Whether yours is a small [...]

June 11, 2025 | 6 min Read
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Community Engagement

5 Reasons Funders Should Exercise Their Convening Power to Meet this Moment

As funders, it’s hard to know how best to use limited resources to best benefit your communities, grantees, and issue [...]

September 16, 2025 | 5 min Read

Grantee Partnerships

Bridging the Empathy Gap: Fueling Collaborative Impact in the Social Sector

Most of us enter the social impact space with a fervent desire to change the world. We meticulously build solutions, [...]

September 2, 2025 | 6 min Read

Data Insights

How Grantmakers Can (and Should) Get Started with Research

Now is an important time for small and mid-sized foundations to engage in research activities. Institutional foundations are fighting to [...]

June 17, 2025 | 6 min Read
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Crisis Management

How Savvy Organizations Weather Uncertain Times

Preparing for the unknown is a tenant of leadership in today’s ever-changing economic, political, and cultural landscape—and those who know [...]

June 11, 2025 | 4 min Read

Manager Skills

3 Ways to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Leadership Approach

When it comes to employee satisfaction in the nonprofit sector, the writing is on the wall—nonprofits have the highest turnover [...]

June 3, 2025 | 3 min Read

Employee Engagement

Why Should Nonprofits Invest in Professional Development?

Nonprofits face a critical question: How do we build stronger, more sustainable organizations that can make a lasting impact? The [...]

May 30, 2025 | 5 min Read
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