Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Finance plays a crucial role in building a sustainable and scalable funding strategy. Finance professionals can provide key insights into risk analysis, financial forecasting, and performance measurement, ensuring each new revenue stream supports your long-term sustainability and growth. The good news?

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Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

For finance teams in donor-focused and grant-funded organizations, working hand-in-hand with fundraising partners is critical to crafting reports that truly engage and tell a story. For finance teams, grant reporting involves aligning financial data with program-specific outcomes.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

To help ensure each grant drives meaningful change, this guide will explore ways grant management influences your nonprofits finances and how to optimize the process for greater impact. The post 4 Ways Effective Grant Management Impacts Nonprofit Finances appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In it, include guidance on gift acceptance, conflicts of interest, expense reimbursement, and staff compensation, among other aspects of nonprofit finance. According to Jitasa , most nonprofits start out using the cash accounting method to track their finances—i.e., Methodology. Chief financial officer (CFO).

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Blackbaud

JULY 7, 2025

Streamlining Reimbursements and Invoice Approvals Managing reimbursements and invoice approvals is a vital function for finance teams, and Financial Edge NXT includes built-in tools to support this. Want to learn more about how to start the digital transformation for your organization’s finance office?

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Blackbaud

MARCH 3, 2025

Here are a few considerations when advocating for technology investments in your accounting and finance departments. Aligning finance with the rest of the organization can go a long way. Too many finance teams dont think of the organization as a whole, which can hurt your case for technology investments.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 13, 2025

Ask the finance team. 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. Even your IT team suggested selling the research tool they built to other organizations.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 18, 2024

Free eBook to The Rise of the Data-Driven Nonprofit Finance Leader This E-Book explores the critical benefits of leveraging real-time metrics for nonprofit finance leaders.

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Tony Martignetti

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Two finance and audit pros walk us through six key metrics that anyone can understand, and that reveal the true state of your financial … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for October 16, 2023: Financial Literacy For Your C-Suite & Board → It also protects the people filling those roles. It also protects the people filling those roles.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JUNE 23, 2025

McGovern Foundation, offers program officers insights into organizations’ finances. Grant Guardian, a free AI tool developed by the Patrick J. Prest Getty Images Program officers at more than 130 grant makers are using a new artificial intelligence tool to assess the financial health of prospective grantee organizations.

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 20, 2024

There are several exciting times of the year for nonprofit finance professionals—budget season, audits, year-end close. They will discuss the importance of having both your development and finances teams involved in donor stewardship. Reporting is a key part of any finance professional’s role.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While there are challenges AI must overcome to be trusted by nonprofits, there are four ways it may help their finance departments.

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GiveSmart

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our nonprofit software suite helps nonprofit finance and development teams collaborate more easily, track donations more efficiently, and tell their story more effectively.” Replace manual data input with an automated approach streamlining workflows between finance and development departments.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 13, 2025

Donors who opt for monthly giving find its easier on their finances. These donors are dedicated to your nonprofit. Organizations that have monthly giving programs receive a steady stream of revenue throughout the year. Even gifts of $5.00 a month can make a difference for your organization.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 6, 2025

The post Sage Intacct built to elevate nonprofit finance and operations appeared first on The NonProfit Times. Take advantage of best practices that have been developed based on our years of experience helping thousands of nonprofits thrive. Learn more today.

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Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Finance departments and CFOs often focus on project management—which is the technical side of change—making sure all the boxes are checked, and everyone moves along the Gantt chart in an orderly fashion. Here are four ways leveraging change management strategies can help you build a sustainable transformation for your nonprofit finance team.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Youve got one draft, three department heads who want to review it, a finance team that needs to “double-check just one thing,” and a program lead whos suddenly out of office. Weve all been there. The grant deadline is in five days. Cue the chaos, caffeine, and existential dread.

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Blackbaud

MAY 8, 2025

One Step Closer to a Paperless Finance Office If you are like many private K12 schools, you could build rooms with the boxes of paper stored throughout your campus. Stronger Internal Controls Having a small finance team often makes it hard to incorporate good internal controls , like separation of duties.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

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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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Break the post-award workload into clear roles: One person tracks finances Another gathers program data Someone drafts reports You focus on deadlines and coordination Hold regular 1530 minute grant check-ins to make sure everyones on track, and tackle issues before they snowball. Your future self will thank you.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 16, 2025

The finance team shoulders immense responsibility to make sure funds are well-stewarded, often while being understaffed and under-resourced. One of the most important places for alignment is between development and finance to make sure expenses abide by funder restrictions.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 20, 2025

Understand Your Finance Committees Needs Know what your finance committee needs to see and provide those outputs to them. Join the Ultimate Nonprofit CFO webinar series for conversations on navigating the complex and changing landscape of nonprofit finance.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 4, 2025

For example, a newly hired finance manager is stepping into a nonprofit with no formalized internal control policy. Finance Teams: Handle the nuts and boltsdocumenting procedures, conducting reconciliations, and overseeing daily transactions. Personnel Controls Require background checks for new hires in finance-related roles.

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Tony Martignetti

JANUARY 14, 2024

Bryan Shane: Performance Measurement There’s a systematic method for you to get feedback on your nonprofit’s finances; programs, clients; and employees. It’s both art and science. Bryan Shane explains this management and decision-making tool. He’s co-author of the book, “The Leadership-Driven Method to Performance Measurement.”

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While nonprofits do not focus on profit, financing operations is still essential for a nonprofit to accomplish its goals. However, you will increase your chances of securing financing for your cause by building a grant cycle. Securing funding is vital for critical programs to flourish. What Type of Grant-Seeker Are You?

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Coastal Enterprises in Brunswick, Maine received $25 million, the Nonprofit Finance Fund was awarded $22 million, and Craft3 in Seattle announced it received $15 million. The $177 million targeted organizations dedicated to housing and financial assistance.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 23, 2024

You Arent Getting a Holistic View of Your Finances When you update your accounting system, make sure you look for one that can manage your revenue and expenses across any characteristic, like grant, project, program, or department, while not requiring them to be created as segments in your nonprofit’s chart of accounts.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

The Ugly Truth: No One Cares as Much as You Do Most grant writers are shocked when they realize that the people they rely onprogram managers, finance staff, directorsarent intentionally trying to sabotage the grant. Its systemicand surprisingly fixable. Theyre just busy. Or skeptical. Or burned out.

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Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

You work hard to keep your nonprofit finance office running smoothly. Keep reading to learn the key benefits of accounting automation and five ways to automate your finance processes today. These are just some of the benefits you can expect when you implement automation at your finance office.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 16, 2025

The agent handles the finances but doesn’t control your work. You’re looking for basic help with finance and compliance. You’re seeking help beyond finances, like HR, liability coverage or insurance. A fiscal agent acts more like a contractor. They manage the money for your project, but your group stays separate.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While nonprofit organizations’ finances are regularly put under a microscope, grantmakers’ finances typically come under less scrutiny. Continuing with Candid’s supplemental exploration of CEO salaries and staff salaries compared to inflation , let’s take a look at how CEO pay stacks up against their organizations’ grantmaking dollars.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2025

Managing your nonprofit’s finances is no small task, but there are four standardized financial statements that provide clear benchmarks to help you make decisions. Financing Activities: Cash flows from loans, endowments, or debt repayments that fund your nonprofit beyond its mission-related activities.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2025

For larger organizations, this could include staff from Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, etc. Finance: Review the project budget and possibly compare with your organizations financial reports of actual versus budgeted expenses, offering time for team member education. depending on the nature of the grant.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

Engage program managers and finance teams to ensure the project is feasible and aligns with organizational goals. Collaborate Across Teams: Successful grant management requires coordination between program, finance, and development staff for alignment and accountability.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2025

With all the economic uncertainty right now, you may be worried about your nonprofits finances. Maybe your giving has gone down and youve cut back on some expenses. While thats understandable on one level, you need to be careful before you nix something you think you cant afford. It may be something you should be investing in.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JANUARY 24, 2025

When you provide your most recent tax return or an audit, it shows that your organization keeps records and can be transparent with finances. Collect meaningful stories: Your finances and numbers are only part of your organizations story.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When researching accountants, look for one with: Nonprofit-specific expertise: You’ll need an accountant who knows the ins and outs of nonprofit finances, such as donor-restricted funds and grant reporting. This statement categorizes cash flows according to their sources.

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