Financial Reporting

How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

When you go out on a boat, you don’t expect a bumpy ride. But you wear a life jacket anyway. [...]

January 9, 2025| 4 min Read

Donor Management

Is It Time for Your Nonprofit or School to Make a CRM Change?

December 12, 2024| 5 min Read

Crisis Management

As a Disaster Unfolds, Fundraisers Can Do More Than Raise Money

January 14, 2025| 5 min Read

Donor Cultivation

5 Components of an Effective Donor Stewardship Matrix

January 15, 2025| 4 min Read

Digital Marketing

From Mission Impossible to Mission Unstoppable: Cracking the Code on Nonprofit Brand Clarity

January 28, 2025| 4 min Read

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Data Health

Strategies for Nonprofits Affected by QuickBooks Tag Depreciation

QuickBooks is depreciating the tags functionality in their accounting software starting March 8. If your nonprofit has chosen to use [...]

February 4, 2025 | 3 min Read

Process Automation

60-Day Guide to Launching Your Fund Accounting Extensibility Project

Having a fund accounting system can significantly streamline your finance function. You have automation, workflows, and dashboards immediately after implementation. [...]

February 3, 2025 | 6 min Read

Community Engagement

Responsive Grantmaking: Five Ways to Stay Connected to Your Community During Times of Crisis

From funding uncertainty to overlapping natural disasters to the possibility of another global pandemic, the modern grantmaker must be prepared [...]

February 1, 2025 | 4 min Read
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Crisis Management

Communicating with Donors in An Uncertain Funding Environment

On January 27, the U.S.  Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum to all executive departments and agencies [...]

January 31, 2025 | 3 min Read

Grants Strategy

Best Practices for Creating an Effective Eligibility Quiz in Grant Applications

There are thousands of organizations in the world doing amazing work in your impact area. As a funder, you probably [...]

January 31, 2025 | 4 min Read

Website Design

How to Increase the ROI of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Using your nonprofit’s resources wisely over time is key to your long-term fundraising success and ability to achieve your mission. [...]

January 29, 2025 | 6 min Read

Diversifying Your Revenue Streams

Budgeting

How to Evaluate a New Revenue Stream

January 13, 2025 | 3 min Read

Crisis Management

How to Manage Your Arts and Cultural Nonprofit’s Revenue Streams in Uncertain Times

July 22, 2024 | 3 min Read

Fund Accounting

Building Resilient Funding Models: Essential Tips for Nonprofit Finance Professionals

November 20, 2024 | 5 min Read

Annual Giving

Get Your Grant-Funded Nonprofit Started in Fundraising

Grants are an integral lifeline for many nonprofits, providing the necessary funding to launch new initiatives, sustain critical programs, and [...]

December 5, 2024| 5 min Read

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Increasing Donor Retention through Engagement

November 26, 2024 |18 min Listen

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From Research to Reality: Experts Discuss the Generosity Commission Report

October 29, 2024 |40 min Listen

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Insights from the Giving USA Annual Report on Philanthropy

October 17, 2024 |25 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

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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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

Grants Strategy

Types of Grants That Every Nonprofit Should Know

Of the many ways a nonprofit organization can get funding, grants often seem like the holy grail. Fill out a [...]

May 8, 2023 | 7 min Read

Giving Tuesday

Stand Out This GivingTuesday: 200 Email Subject Lines

As GivingTuesday approaches, the inboxes of your supporters are bound to be flooded with messages from countless organizations, each with [...]

October 31, 2024 | 7 min Read

Board Management

How to Engage Board Members in Fundraising

Have you noticed your board members avoiding eye contact when the subject of fundraising comes up? Most people are motivated [...]

October 8, 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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Financial Reporting

GAAP for Nonprofits: How to Reconcile GAAP and Non-GAAP Results

Have you ever had your board members scratch their collective heads when the development and finance teams report their results? Do you get questions on why the two never match up?

September 13, 2024 | 3 min Read

Financial Reporting

9 Best Practices for Strong Nonprofit Financial Management

Smart money moves are vital for nonprofits. You’ve got to use funds wisely, aligning with your mission and honoring donor [...]

August 12, 2024 | 11 min Read

Fund Accounting

Nonprofit Accountant vs. Fractional CFO: The Key Differences

Effective nonprofit financial management is a team effort. Having multiple people working on your organization’s finances helps ensure accuracy—not only [...]

July 24, 2024 | 4 min Read
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Annual Giving

Rethinking Annual Giving Metrics: A New Storyline for Higher Ed

For many years, the overarching narrative for annual giving in higher education fundraising has been the same: We’re getting bigger [...]

October 4, 2024 | 5 min Read

Enrollment and Retention

Reimagining Graduate Student Recruitment: 4 Tips to Get Started

Students pursue advanced degrees with the promise of invaluable research opportunities, specialized skills, and increased earning potential. Accordingly, many college [...]

February 6, 2024 | 3 min Read

Awards and Scholarships

5 Ways to Empower Scholarship Reviewers

Reviewing scholarship applications can be one of the most complicated processes to manage during scholarship season. Reviewers are a critical [...]

December 28, 2023 | 3 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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Change Management

Questions to Ask If You Are Thinking About Moving to a New GMS

When your grantmaking organization first started, you didn’t need a lot of functionality to manage your single program and a [...]

November 7, 2024 | 4 min Read

Disaster Response

Preparing for the Inevitable: How Grantmakers Can Thrive Amid Climate Events

A huge thank you to Audrey Kidwell, Grants Manager for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, for providing many of the [...]

October 28, 2024 | 4 min Read

Budgeting

Finance Best Practices for Your Grantmaking Organization

As a grantmaker, you expect organizations you support to manage their awards effectively, accurately, and responsibly. Those same expectations should [...]

July 16, 2024 | 4 min Read
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The Art of Managing, Rather than Mitigating, Risk

In this excerpt of a conversation with Satonya Fair, President and CEO of PEAK Grantmaking, she encourages grantmaking organizations to [...]

December 20, 2022 |25 min Listen
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Volunteer Management

Volunteer Smarter, Not Harder: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros

Are you looking for ways to manage your volunteers more effectively? To conclude National Volunteer Month, we’ve gathered the best [...]

April 28, 2022 | < 1 min Read
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Manager Skills

4 Critical Elements of Managing Development Officers

There are many factors in fundraising, from early engagement to a donor’s ultimate or legacy gift. Some of these factors [...]

September 7, 2022 | 5 min Read
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