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4 Ways to Unlock the Potential of Your Nonprofit Finance Team to Become World Class

Blackbaud

A world-class finance team will do all that and be a key part of your strategic planning, helping you identify opportunities and risks based on past performance and future scenario planning. Set the Example The ethical environment of your organization cascades down from leadership.

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

Each board member may bring a specific skill or may be a generalist, but in the aggregate, the board provides a full set of business skills to ensure that the executive director is employing best practices — whether it’s finance, budgeting, strategic planning, change management, or succession planning.

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The 10 roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors

Get Fully Funded

They don’t understand their fiscal or legal responsibility nor their ethical responsibility. Ideally, the Board and Executive Director will work together as partners to lead the nonprofit, especially on the strategic plan, fundraising, and overall evaluation of the organization.

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Getting Curious About Ethics By: Kellie Brungard, GPC

Assel Grant Services

Ethics are moral principles that govern an individual’s or group’s behavior or activities. Within the grant profession, the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) has defined a clear code of ethics for members to abide by and establish boundaries within practice that uphold the integrity of the industry.

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Embracing rapid change: Trends shaping the nonprofit sector in 2025

Candid

This finding supports health charities’ fundraising efforts and informs policy advocacy for improved health care coverageinsights that would have taken exponentially longer to gather without AI. This shift means teams can spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time tackling the worlds most urgent challenges.

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3 Best Practices for Streamlining Your Endowment Management

Blackbaud

Endowments are the result of a successful long-term strategic plan. If your donor provides a significant contribution to your endowment with the goal of launching a scholarship program, for example, you have legal and ethical responsibilities to steward those funds to provide scholarships as directed.

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Organizational Development in Becoming Grant-Ready

Grant Professionals Association

Here are some key steps you can take and considerations that will bring your organization that much closer to securing the funds your organization needs: Strategic Planning: Organizational development involves strategic planning, which identifies the goals, priorities, and needs of the organization and its programs/service offerings.