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Stop the Boilerplate Burnout: How to Keep Your Grant Story Fresh Without Losing Your Sanity

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Set up a small boilerplate brain trust with one person from each key departmentprograms, finance, development, and leadership. So how do you keep this story sharp, accurate, and compelling without letting it eat up all your time and energy? Lets break it down. Appoint a Grant Story Dream Team Dont go it alone.

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Bridging gaps and weaving networks: The vital work of place-based intermediaries

Candid

Many organizations struggle to sustain their finances, teams, and leadership, which jeopardizes their ability to take up transformational opportunitiesand, in turn, their impact. Leadership development: PBIs help train local leaders, build resilient organizations, and prevent burnout.

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4 Common Event Planning Challenges + How to Solve Them

The Fundraising Coach

Budget Constraints Tight finances can make it difficult to secure venues, hire vendors, and provide high-quality experiences for attendees. Limited Staffing and Volunteer Burnout Nonprofits often operate with small teams and depend heavily on volunteers to bring their events to life.

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How Savvy Organizations Weather Uncertain Times

Blackbaud

Depending on the last time your organization had to take an intense look at its finances, your financial ducks may already be well- aligned. Learn more in this Cost Containment Guide for Nonprofit Finance Teams. Create momentum in the short term. When there are storms in the forecast, it makes sense to be prepared.

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12 Top Financial Metrics Nonprofits Need to Know

Blackbaud

It can provide insights into whether your organization is scaling too quickly, causing you to eat into your margins, or running too lean, potentially causing burnout among your staff. Free White Paper Future-Proofing Your Organization’s Finances: Proactive Steps to Ensure Stability and Growth Download now 7.

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You Closed the Gift. They Canceled You Out.

Center for Major Gifts

Meanwhile, my friend returned to his office to update Blackbaud and maybe expense a turkey sandwich from Paneraassuming Finance doesn’t reject it because he forgot to photograph the receipt from three angles while holding todays newspaper. Could be burnout. A year later. Could be institutional gaslighting. Not advocating.

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2024 Blue Avocado Year in Review

Blue Avocado

Finance Once your nonprofit or private foundation is tax-exempt, you never have to deal with the IRS again, right? When it comes to finance, though, having clearly defined roles and duties over budgeting, accounting, and expenses are essential internal controls for small nonprofits, and key to their stability and success.