Candid

JUNE 4, 2025

This way, changemakers dont need to create a new nonprofit from scratchwhich requires IRS tax-exempt status, a board of directors, a bank account, accounting, charitable registration, insurance, human resources, an audit, and state and federal filings.

Goals

Blackbaud

JUNE 20, 2025

Most nonprofit finance teams have been taught to keep their overhead costs buried deep within their financial statements. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised their uniform guidance in 2024, increasing the de minimus (or standard) rate allowed for indirect costs—overhead for federal grants—from 10 to 15%.

Indirect Cost

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2025

When the budget doesn’t align with the story you’re telling—or worse, contradicts it—it sends a clear message to reviewers: this organization may not be ready to manage grant funding effectively. Consult with finance staff or partners early. Who will implement the work? What resources are required? What timeline makes sense?

Budget

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 23, 2025

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Funding

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?

Finance

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Because your organization cant turn a profit by definition, the goal of tracking your finances is to demonstrate to donors, funders, the government, and the community that youre using your funding responsibly to further your mission. Accountability is at the heart of nonprofit accounting.

Liability

Blackbaud

JULY 10, 2025

In the finance office, you know it’s not time to celebrate just yet. Sharing with donors how their gifts contributed to a recent successful fundraising event or helped provide more meals to those in need will go a long way toward continued support—and that all starts with clear reporting in the finance office.

Finance

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Think beyond health insurance. Use recruiting tools to streamline the hiring process and employee management platforms to boost productivity. Digital onboarding platforms can ease the transition for new hires, while project management software keeps teams organized. Be transparent about pay and get creative with benefits.

Retainer

Planned Giving

JUNE 24, 2025

Revocable Living Trust (RLT) An RLT is a legal entity that manages and distributes your property after death, allowing assets to avoid probate. You transfer your assets to the trust, becoming the trustee, and select a successor trustee to manage the trust upon your disability or death.

Insurance

Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Have you ever had your board members scratch their collective heads when the development and finance teams report their results? The quandary that faces every nonprofit management team is how to communicate the difference in GAAP to non-GAAP operating results. How Development and Finance Can Get Along (Really!)Does

Insurance

Blackbaud

MAY 6, 2024

But when you have all the pieces—accurate data, a clear process, and a finance team to put it together—you can make a three-course meal look easy. Review Expenses Independently Budgeting by department helps break down the budget into manageable pieces. These are set costs like headquarters rent, insurance, and administrative salaries.

Budget

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Tip 2: Bring both your program and finance teams into the grant application and award process.

Indirect Cost

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

When you’re just getting started, it’s critical that one of your first steps is to create your nonprofit’s first budget to help you manage both your organization and your finances as it grows. Use accounting software to help you manage your finances.

Budget

The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 22, 2024

But is flooding covered under a typical commercial insurance policy? Rushing : Flood coverage is not typically included in a commercial insurance policy. Although you might be able to purchase flood insurance from your carrier or add it to your policy, many managers do not. You can find more information about that here.

Insurance

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Many don’t cover operating costs or have a small allotment for indirect costs such as salaries, insurance, and utilities. Fund Accounting for Unrestricted Funds You need to be able to accurately track and manage your donations by fund or subfund so you can provide clear reporting for all your income streams, restricted or unrestricted.

Funding

GiveSmart

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We are breaking down compliance considerations for nonprofit organizations and the ways fundraising software can help streamline compliance management. Regular board meetings will help your nonprofit manage its processes and stay in compliance with all essential regulations. Get insurance policies. Process your payroll.

Software

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 16, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore the basics of creating and managing a nonprofit COA, starting with three simple steps you can take to develop this document. When handling your nonprofit’s finances in any capacity, a professional’s expertise is always your best bet for getting it right. Use the following tips to maintain your COA.

Liability

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2024

Now that your new nonprofit is up and running, developing a solid foundation for financial management should be a top priority. The ins and outs of nonprofit accounting may seem overwhelming at first, but effectively recording and reporting your organization’s finances is essential to fund your mission. Expense reimbursement.

Policy

Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. It is a specialized cloud database to help nonprofits organizations manage their business, run programs, and maintain donor relationships from any browser and on mobile devices.

Software

Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

However, if you’ve never prepared or managed a project budget, the budget piece can be intimidating. You may need to hire someone at the beginning of year 2 to manage the meeting, so your personnel costs will increase that year. Assigning one person to be the lead for the entire proposal is not necessarily a bad thing.

Budget

Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Consider having a separate session to discuss your organization’s finances.

Finance

The Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Life insurance: Donors can list your organization as a beneficiary on their life insurance policy. These funds are similar to endowments, except they’re managed by the donor and their DAF provider instead of gifted to a specific nonprofit. They can also donate any unused retirement assets to your nonprofit. Tax benefits.

Pass-Through

Qgiv

MARCH 5, 2024

501(c)(8): This type of nonprofit includes fraternal beneficiary societies and associations that provide benefits, such as insurance, to members of the organization through membership fees. These organizations can’t accept contributions and are generally funded by membership fees. These associations can’t accept contributions.

Insurance

The Fundraising Coach

APRIL 12, 2023

To keep track of your finances for specific, individual campaigns, according to Jitasa’s nonprofit financial management guide your organization should also create a detailed budget for those campaigns that covers your anticipated revenue and expense sources for individual campaigns.

Fundraising

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

A project proposal typically includes a background section, a management and personnel section, and a past performance section. Regardless of your area of expertise and whether you are employed by a nonprofit or educational institution, you will find that the list of viable funders is going to be manageable.

Funding

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Estate planning involves determining who will inherit your assets and who will manage your estate upon your death. Executor : You can designate someone you trust to manage your estate. Control : You can manage and alter the trust during your lifetime. What Is Estate Planning? Clarity : Ensures your wishes are followed.

Insurance

Greater Giving

MAY 8, 2025

What you might not think of right away are your organizations financial management resources, although theyre just as critical for furthering your mission as any of the other tools weve mentioned. One essential process for managing your nonprofit’s finances is budgeting. Grant proposal budget.

Budget

Planned Giving

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you’re not able to make decisions for yourself because of an illness or ailment, your chosen representative steps in to handle your finances and make medical decisions. It’s like an insurance policy for your life, not just your death. Let’s break this down into manageable steps. But choose wisely.

Insurance

Center for Major Gifts

AUGUST 19, 2024

From longer life expectancy to evolving roles in society, women need a tailored approach to ensure their legacy is managed according to their wishes. Women are more likely to face changes in finances, inheritance, and guardianship issues alone, making comprehensive estate planning essential.

Pass-Through

Candid

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2022, 48% owned their homes, only 4% had any investment income, 25% were covered by public health insurance, and 10% had no coverage at all. The voices and experiences of workers of color are critical to achieving nonprofit missions and are needed at all levels, from non-management to the C-suite and boards.

Insurance

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

You need to ensure that your organization has appropriate insurance coverage in place to protect against potential liability claims in all of these areas of legal risk. You also should explore acquiring an errors and omissions liability/media liability insurance policy to fill those coverage gaps. Tenenbaum, Esq.,

ChatGPT

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This categorization allows nonprofit managers to demonstrate how funds are spent across activities and is essential for transparency and accountability. At its core, functional expense reporting segments a nonprofit’s costs into three main categories: program services; management and general activities; and, fundraising efforts.

Indirect

Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

After all, every nonprofit needs to have someone counting the cash, writing checks, safeguarding financial integrity, and managing funds soundly! And each organization has at least one volunteer leader counting the cash, writing checks, safeguarding financial integrity, and managing funds soundly.

Budget