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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 [...]
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The Lifecycle of a Nonprofit Budget: Keeping Your Mission at the Center
A budget is more than just a financial document. It’s a reflection of your mission, vision, and goals. It helps [...]
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Nonprofit Budgeting and Forecasting Made Easy with Fund Accounting Software
It’s budget season, and the spreadsheet chaos has begun. But you want to make this year different. You want to [...]
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How to Build a Better Nonprofit Budget in Less Time and with Less Stress
Like a good recipe, your nonprofit budget requires high-quality ingredients, easy-to-follow steps, and a knowledgeable cook or two to put [...]
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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too
Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given [...]
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3 Strategies to Build Your Organization’s Financial Capacity
Here are three strategies your organization can use to build its capacity to plan for more, not less resources to meet its mission.
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Don’t Jeopardize Your Nonprofit Compliance with a Commercial Accounting System
Grant-funded nonprofits know compliance isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a must-have. You might be able to win back an unhappy donor [...]
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Evaluating and Streamlining Your Annual Budgeting Process
Tips to help social good organizations streamline and improve the annual budgeting process.
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5 Ways Fund Accounting Software Makes Nonprofit Budgeting Simple
Building your nonprofit budget is often like putting together a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. You know what you want it to [...]
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What to Do When Your Nonprofit Budget Gets Blindsided
With quickly evolving community needs and the ever-present possibility of a climate event or economic downturn, nonprofits know how to [...]