5 Steps to Strengthen Your Grantmaking Organization’s Data Governance
A grant management system is no place for your garbage. And yet, many grantmakers leave duplicate records, incomplete contacts, and [...]
Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality
Working in the nonprofit sector is hard. You and your grantees are driven by a passion for your mission that [...]
Why Your Fund Accounting System Needs a Strong Partner Network
There was a time when you had to find one single solution that hopefully met the majority of your needs [...]
How Your Finance and Program Teams Can Work Together to Ensure Grant Compliance
As Winston Churchill said, with great power comes great responsibility, and nowhere is that felt more acutely than those who [...]
4 Strategies for Proactive Risk Management at Your Nonprofit
When everything is going well at your nonprofit, risk management may not seem like a priority. It’s easy to become [...]
Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?
The phenomenon of our shrinking school-aged population is well documented. People have been choosing to have fewer children, and that [...]
Modern Nonprofit Tools for Long-Term Success
When you look to donate money to a charity, what are some considerations that influence your decision? Of course, it’s [...]
3 Ways to Create Efficiencies in Your Nonprofit’s Monthly Finance Workflow
I love the saying: Where your attention goes, energy flows. We want to put our energy into the right things [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
