Planned Giving

Smarter Planned Giving Strategies: Using Data and Stewardship to Build Legacy

Planned giving is gaining renewed attention among nonprofit fundraising professionals. If you’re focused on long-term sustainability, you’re likely asking: how [...]

September 8, 2025| 3 min Read

Outcomes Reporting

Nonprofits and the Power of Impact: Tracking Success in a Changing World

August 26, 2025| 4 min Read

Financial Reporting

Bookkeeping for Nonprofits: Tips for Efficiency, Compliance, and Accuracy

August 25, 2025| 5 min Read

Data Management

Keeping Time: What We’re Learning from Conversational Grantmaking in Practice

August 19, 2025| 6 min Read

Change Management

Beyond the Pitch: A School Administrator’s Guide to Smart Vendor Selection

August 14, 2025| 4 min Read

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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

bbcon

What’s New and What’s Next: Why Your Finance Team Should Attend bbcon This Year

There are several exciting times of the year for nonprofit finance professionals—budget season, audits, year-end close. But one of our [...]

September 11, 2025 | 4 min Read

Recurring Gifts

Launching a Monthly Giving Program: Your Key to More Reliable Revenue

Fifteen percent. The president of my organization wanted me to raise our annual revenue by 15% by the end of [...]

September 11, 2025 | 5 min Read

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

Audits

Nonprofit Audits: What’s Required in 2025?

Whether mandated by law or undertaken voluntarily, a nonprofit audit can help your finance office get organized and give you [...]

September 4, 2025 | 8 min Read

bbcon

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

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bbcon

Why K–12 Professionals Should Attend bbcon This Year

July 28, 2025 | 6 min Read

bbcon

bbcon 2025: Elevate Your Grantmaking with Sessions, Insights, and Community

August 27, 2025 | 4 min Read

bbcon

What’s New and What’s Next: Why Your Finance Team Should Attend bbcon This Year

September 11, 2025 | 4 min Read

bbcon

Why bbcon Feels Like Summer Camp

Every fall, I pack my conference bag not just with chargers and notebooks—but with anticipation. bbcon has become my professional [...]

July 24, 2025| 2 min Read

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The Power of the Inbox: Mastering Email Marketing for Nonprofits

August 13, 2025 |34 min Listen

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January 28, 2025 |33 min Listen

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Revitalizing Volunteer Programs at Jackson: Overcoming Barriers to Participation

January 22, 2025 |40 min Listen

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Strategic Planning

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

Donor Cultivation

Engaging Your Donor Community: 5 School Fundraising Tips

Fundraising is often a necessity for schools to provide students and teachers with resources that set them up for success. [...]

April 10, 2023 | 5 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 Importance of Resilient Grantmaking Technology Focused on Human-Centered Design

Five key ways that foundations can future-proof their grantmaking, including with grantmaking technology centered in human-centered design.

October 23, 2020 | 5 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

Donor Cultivation

Philanthropy Is for the Optimists: How to Build a Shared Sense of Purpose

Be real, but believe. To remain an optimist as a fundraiser, you must be real especially about the challenges of [...]

May 20, 2025 | 5 min Read

Donor Cultivation

8 Simple Tactics You Need in Your Fundraising Strategy Toolkit

Nonprofits work tirelessly to make a difference in their communities, and fundraising is often a vital yet challenging part of [...]

May 1, 2025 | 5 min Read
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Financial Reporting

4 Nonprofit Financial Statements and How to Create Them

Effective financial management equips you to make the most of your nonprofit’s limited resources. To produce meaningful reports to help [...]

June 18, 2025 | 4 min Read

Budgeting

10 Steps to Creating an Effective Nonprofit Budget

Imagine you’re preparing for a long road trip across unfamiliar terrain. You wouldn’t set out without a map, a plan [...]

June 5, 2025 | 5 min Read

Fund Accounting

How Purchase Cards Simplify Nonprofit Accounting

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

May 20, 2025 | 4 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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Change Management

What It Means to be a Connected K–12 School

The definition of “a connected school” could be many different things. Each description, at its core, stems from the answer [...]

October 29, 2024 | 7 min Read

Data Management

Information: The Better Half of IT

We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology. As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half—the [...]

April 17, 2024 | 5 min Read

Tuition and Financial Aid

How to Improve On-Time Tuition Payments

Private and independent schools rely on tuition to fund operations. In its 2023–2024 Trendbook, the National Association of Independent Schools [...]

October 20, 2023 | 5 min Read
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Employee Wellness

Challenges of Establishing an Employee Relief Fund (ERF) and Recommended Solutions

The growth in Employee Relief Funds (ERFs) exploded in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 began to affect companies and [...]

September 8, 2021 | 4 min Read
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Change Management

Responsive Philanthropy: How to Address Community Needs in Time of Crisis

Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice, a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. The [...]

January 13, 2023 | 6 min Read
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Volunteer Management

How the Pandemic Has Changed Pro Bono

The pandemic pushed the social sector to make game-changing shifts in community programming, funding models and organizational leadership. Nonprofits that pivoted their programming in [...]

October 18, 2021 | 3 min Read
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Compliance

Conflict of Interest Guidelines Every Grantmaker Should Follow

Humans are complicated creatures. While, as grantmakers, you see a lot of amazing work humans do every day, you also [...]

May 19, 2025 | 6 min Read

Community Engagement

5 Ways Funders Can Address Nonprofit Burnout

Nonprofits play a critical role in addressing our most pressing issues and addressing gaps for the most vulnerable among us. [...]

April 9, 2025 | 5 min Read

Grantee Partnerships

Innovative Approaches for Grantmakers to Address Grantee Well-Being

Economic fluctuations, policy changes, climate events, and rapid advances in technology are just a few of the factors fundamentally reshaping [...]

March 18, 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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