Blackbaud

APRIL 7, 2025

Like your K12 private school budget. A well-crafted budget is essential for aligning financial resources with the strategic goals of your private school, and with the right processes and tools, it doesnt have to be stressful. Your school may have multiple budgets, each with a different purpose.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2025

Explore top event ideas to strengthen relationships between donors and beneficiaries, enhance engagement, and maximize fundraising success for your nonprofit. By Jen Wemhoff Nonprofit fundraising is about more than just dollars—it’s about connections. For smaller nonprofits, these relationships are incredibly powerful.

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Clairification

APRIL 20, 2023

Which means that: Budgets Timelines Plans Decision trees and projections are nothing to be afraid of. Please consider getting access to all my blog articles, monthly tips, webinars, podcasts, bonuses and other content via enrollment in ‘Clairification School.’ They’re a gift. I am deeply appreciative for your support!

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IT Nonprofit Budget 224

Blackbaud

MAY 6, 2024

Like a good recipe, your nonprofit budget requires high-quality ingredients, easy-to-follow steps, and a knowledgeable cook or two to put it together. Here are a few simple steps to help you create a solid budget that helps your organization allocate resources effectively and makes your budgeting process easier.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 3, 2025

In the nonprofit sector, both time and money are always limited so you have to strike the right balance between mission-oriented activities and backend operations. But how do you justify spending money on a budgeting tool instead of supplies for an after-school program? Be sure to clearly lay that out.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 16, 2025

For nonprofits, every dollar is mission-critical, and every decision impacts lives. When I meet with nonprofits about their struggles, the majority of these problems can be traced back to the way their accounting system was set up. For nonprofits, their duties involve more than just basic bookkeeping.

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Finance Budget Nonprofit Management 93

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Organizations are always making miracles happen on tight budgets. So, it’s hard to imagine cutting additional costs at a nonprofit. The best leaders understand two things must happen to sustain a nonprofit: SAVING money and RAISING money. Afterall, nonprofit is your tax status, it shouldn’t be your business model.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 7, 2025

As leaders in nonprofit finance, it’s our job to be prepared for the inevitability of change. We build a budget that is fair, balanced, and built on evidential history, but flexible ready for whatever hiccups and bumps come along. Im sure everyone is mildly familiar with budgeting. Why Do Nonprofit Budgets Change?

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 13, 2025

Finance teams can help their nonprofit organizations evaluate new revenue streams, enhancing the organizations stability and mitigating risk while intentionally experimenting with varied income sources. This alignment prevents mission creep and maintains the integrity of your nonprofit’s goals. Ask the finance team.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Budget planning is an art and a science. Watch this on-demand webinar for best practices for working efficiently to build budgets for multi-year and unusual grants, manage cash flow and handle budgets-to-actuals.

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Budget Grant Management Grant Grants 96

Candid

MAY 2, 2025

As federal funding cuts, freezes, and executive actions create uncertainty across the sector, many nonprofits are struggling to find the resources they need to serve their communities. nonprofits report receiving government grants. inflation) of 3% to 5% for future-year budgets. Roughly 30% of U.S. Factor in cost increases (i.e.,

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In this article, we will cover online fundraising methods, tools, and some quick tips to get your nonprofit started! Read Blackbaud’s recent report from The Resilient Nonprofit that highlights fundraising giving trends and outcomes. Recurring donations can provide nonprofits with steady income, improving long-term financial stability.

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Fundraising Nonprofit Media Donation 98

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Launching a new nonprofit is an exhilarating feeling. Here’s something to keep in mind, starting now: self-funding a nonprofit is not sustainable. In fundraising terms, this means you can break the mammoth task of raising money for your operating budget into small steps that feel less intimidating.

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Funding Nonprofit Fundraising Donation 98

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

With the right policies and strategies in place, your nonprofit organization can draw from your operating reserves during and after an emergency without putting future operations at risk. Want to learn more about operating reserves for your nonprofit organization? Check out our webinar with A.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 19, 2024

In an era of rapid change and evolving priorities, using traditional approaches to budgeting and planning may no longer be enough for your non-profit to increase financial success and boost community impact. Check out this on-demand webinar to learn transformative practices that can revolutionize the way your nonprofit approaches budgeting.

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Grant Writer Team

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

However, you find that your budget won’t allow for the purchase and now you’re stuck. When someone receives and uses a branded item, they form a positive association with your nonprofit or small business. GrantWriterTeam has donor-centric tips and tricks for nonprofits seeking corporate sponsorships! #1:

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Candid

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Latinx community is often missing from philanthropic discussionsboth about donors and about nonprofit organizations. population, but from every measurement in philanthropy including grants to Latinx-focused nonprofit organizations to representation among board members and staff, you wouldnt know there were 62 million of us.

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CauseVox

MAY 25, 2021

Save your seat today for the free webinar. Speaker : Taught by Kelly McLaughlin: Your NonproFIT Coach. Her FIT nonprofit coaching method was developed after spending years as both a nonprofit professional and a fitness trainer. Can’t make it live? Register anyway and you’ll receive the recording!

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CauseVox

MAY 23, 2023

Struck by the power of the Google Ad Grant, we wondered why more nonprofits were not utilizing it. We surveyed hundreds of organizations and found that 75% of eligible nonprofits either had not heard of, or were not currently using the Google Grant. Join our no-nonsense webinar. We are here to change that!

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GiveSmart

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What else can your nonprofit do to have a strategic end-of-the-year to reach your goals? What are my nonprofit’s needs between now and the end of the year? It’s time turn the page from your Giving Tuesday campaign and zero in on end-of-year giving.

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Center for Major Gifts

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

During a recent webinar, New Administration: How Nonprofits Can Survive and Thrive , I uncovered some shocking numbers about the decline in individual givingnumbers that have largely gone unnoticed in the nonprofit sector. Economic Uncertainty: Whats Next for Nonprofits? How Nonprofits Can Prepare for the Future 1.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Thanking donors is crucial for securing gifts—especially for small nonprofits trying to build a support base. By Logan Foote Building relationships is crucial for nonprofits to grow their impact. For small nonprofits in particular, these relationships are critical to growing and scaling your work to drive additional impact.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 30, 2022

For the vast majority of nonprofit organizations, your year-end campaign is, by far, the most important. A dynamic strategist, Julie Edwards turned her skills to the nonprofit sector in 2010, first as a development director and then executive director. In fact, 30+% of all annual giving occurs in December. About your Speaker.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Because nonprofits depend on donations, they’re often stretched thin for resources. Luckily, there are plenty of free nonprofit resources online for your organization to take advantage of. These resources come in various forms, ranging from educational webinars and podcasts to newsletters and fundraising software.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We all know how important the GivingTuesday and Year-End Fundraising campaigns can be for nonprofits. Because you have $10,000 to spend each month on Google ads, you don’t need to worry about how expensive those keywords get – it is almost as if you have an unlimited budget!

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Blackbaud

MAY 27, 2024

It’s budget season, and the spreadsheet chaos has begun. You want to document your process to save yourself valuable time next budget season. You want to be able to easily report on budgets in a variety of accurate, clear ways without too much fuss, and know what was approved versus what’s been modified. What if it raises more?

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Budget Software Funding Utilities 59

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In our webinar with Rachel Werner and James Spencer from RBW Strategy, they covered steps to help nonprofits that receive—or are looking to start receiving—government grant funding. Review them regularly against the approved budget. Share your policies for invoice reviews with your programmatic team members and sub-recipients.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

In working with nonprofit organizations, I have been a part of numerous conversations with organizational leadership who have seen grants as the solution to all their revenue shortfalls. Grants are part of the revenue mix for many nonprofit organizations, providing a source of funding for various projects.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

Just as the gauges on a car’s dashboard provide crucial information about its performance and physical condition, operating reserves serve as a vital indicator of a nonprofit organization’s financial health and as a measure of stability. operating leases). The net result will be operating reserves.

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Blackbaud

MAY 2, 2025

How This Downturn Could Be Different for Grantmakers While recessions typically strain financial resources and increase demands on nonprofits, todays economic landscape is shaped by a few unusual factors, making the road ahead particularly complex. According to the 2023 Nonprofit Workplace Survey , 51.7%

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 4, 2025

Jen Maffeo-Morrissey of S3 Catalysts is joining me for a FREE webinar on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at 1 p.m. What Jen is offering A practical, easy-to-use tool the Fit, Fuel, Footing Framework designed to help nonprofit teams qualify corporate prospects strategically, faster, and with more confidence. Tomorrow is the big day!

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2023

Nonprofit professionals are masters at stretching their budgets. Leveraging free platforms and features is one of the best ways to make a budget go further—but I know that these tools are only helpful if you can quickly get up to speed with how to use them. Our team set out to fix that.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

With a fund accounting software system designed for nonprofits, you can fully track all your grants, especially restricted grants, in one place. Fund accounting software can allow you to accurately curate grant reports to track restrictions, set budgets, and audit grant awards.

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Indirect Cost Indirect Software Funding 115

Candid

AUGUST 7, 2024

In June 2024, Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoed $32 million in state funding for nonprofit arts organizations. As I discussed next steps with a nonprofit partner—like educating their community about the impact of this loss of funding—concerns about engaging in “political talk” emerged. nonprofits across the country.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 10, 2021

You’ve got a brilliant idea for a new nonprofit. Whether you started your nonprofit last week or five years ago, if you’re still struggling to get your mission off the ground, this two-part course will help you jumpstart your work and set you on the path to success. Registration for the Nonprofit Startup 101 Course is live!

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful. Here are seven ways your team can make sure your nonprofit has a strong financial foundation this year.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2011

This summer NTEN is hosting a series of five free webinars about cloud computing entitled Nonprofits & Cloud Computing: A Guide to Navigating the Nonprofit Cloud. The webinar series is available to everyone at no cost, whether you're an NTEN member or not thanks to a grant from Google.org. Pacific (2:00 p.m.

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