Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

This post was originally published October 2016 and updated January 2025. Operating reserves are a crucial part of a healthy financial statement, and there are several ways to calculate, hold, and manage those funds. Consult your auditor and CPA to identify the options that work best for your organization.

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, we wanted to share some of the most read articles we published this year. Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy by Astrid Vinje, Candid. Thank you for being a regular reader of Candid insights, which we launched as a new platform earlier this year. What can fundraisers do?

AI

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

How to Evaluate Foundation Goals and Priorities The best way to spot a foundation’s core mission starts with taking a close look at their website, annual reports, and published materials. Role of Grant and Contract Officers in Foundation Funding Grant and contract officers connect researchers with foundations.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

[a][b] Every incoming administration in recent decades has engaged in some form of programmatic pause and review with the expressed aim of reshaping grant and loan funding to be aligned with their policy preferences. Can the President order a review of its funding programs to discern policy fit, effectiveness and impact? Absolutely.

Grants

Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Then, in 2015, the Wall Street Journal published an article that unnerved me. WAA has taken steps to institute a Whistleblower's Policy to protect employees who may report illegal or dishonest business practices. This is important and powerful work and WAA became a big part of the speeches I delivered that year.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the number of students we taught rose and tenure-track faculty left, they were replaced with wonderful, intelligent, highly-trained contingent faculty with heavy teaching loads, by-the-course or one-year contracts, and little to no support for equipment, materials, or professional development. There’s sick days built into your contract.

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