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How to Improve Your Internal Controls to Minimize Audit Findings

Blackbaud

MAY 13, 2025

Financial Accountability: Donors, grantors, and the public trust nonprofits to manage their finances responsibly. Examples include backup procedures, disciplinary action, and insurance. Assess Risks: Identify the risks that could impact the organization’s operations and finances.

Policy

Policy Policies Ethics Finance

Supporting nonprofit and mission-driven affordable housing providers

Candid

MAY 14, 2025

This lowers property revenue, even as material, labor, and insurance costs risea combination thats making building and operating affordable housing extremely difficult, or even infeasible. Thats because the financing of new or preserved affordable homes is something like a Jenga tower.

Finance

Finance Government Nonprofit Policy

GAAP for Nonprofits: How to Reconcile GAAP and Non-GAAP Results

Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Have you ever had your board members scratch their collective heads when the development and finance teams report their results? So, while bequests, insurance policies and planned gifts are exciting for the organization, those donations won’t be reflected in the GAAP reporting. How Development and Finance Can Get Along (Really!)Does

Insurance

Insurance Insurance Finance Nonprofit

Your Nonprofit Team: Attracting, Retaining Talent

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Think beyond health insurance. Regular training, open conversations, and diverse leadership help everyone feel respected and valued. Offer mentoring, leadership development workshops, and training tailored to nonprofit careers. Be transparent about pay and get creative with benefits.

Retainer

Retainer Nonprofit Insurance Insurance

7 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Build a Strong Financial Foundation in 2024

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

Indirect Cost Indirect Finance Government

Introduction to Nonprofit Program Budgets

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 3, 2022

Indirect Expenses: These include administrative and overhead costs, all the costs of all departments outside of the program department, such as finance, human resources, and development. Fringe Benefits: This includes the cost of benefits given to personnel of the program, such as, health insurance, paid time off, pension, etc.

Budget

Budget Grant Writing Nonprofit Consulting

How to create your new nonprofit’s first budget

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

Budget Finance Software Liability

Nonprofit Board Member Onboarding: 12 Things to Cover

Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

In addition, you may find it helpful to use the Nonprofit.Courses’ guide to nonprofit board training as a resource to further improve your onboarding work. That level of knowledge builds over time with ongoing training at board meetings, through tours, at events, and by other means. Let’s begin. Your Mission.

Finance

Finance Nonprofit Policy Policies

How to Create a Nonprofit Chart of Accounts: 3 Steps + Tips

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 16, 2024

When handling your nonprofit’s finances in any capacity, a professional’s expertise is always your best bet for getting it right. Train your team on data hygiene best practices to ensure everyone who edits your COA follows the same standards. Use the following tips to maintain your COA. Work With a Nonprofit Accountant.

Liability

Liability Federal Grants Utilities Nonprofit

Fundraising With a Positive Return: 3 Accounting Practices

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

Fundraising Metrics Budget Software

Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Through our work in grant development, we’ve met many faculty members who have not received training on how to find funding or write grant proposals. However, many of the principles will also apply to researchers based outside of the US as well as to nonprofits. 4 laptops, 3 iPads, and 3 mobile phones.

Funding

Funding Proposal Grants.Gov Budget

5 Legal Issues For NPOs Using ChatGPT

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

AI systems rely on vast amounts of data to train and improve their algorithms, and nonprofit leaders must ensure that the data they collect is used in accordance with applicable federal, state, and international privacy laws and regulations. Data Privacy. One of the primary legal issues associated with the use of AI is data privacy.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Liability Insurance Liability AI

5 Strategies To Keep Your Office Safe

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Your staff members should be fully trained and familiar with your emergency response plan. Conduct drills to ensure your nonprofit is ready for an emergency and require all who are on-site on training day to participate. Have an emergency preparedness and response plan in place.

Liability

Liability Insurance Insurance Contract

Treasurers of All-Volunteer Organizations: Eight Key Responsibilities

Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Because most AVOs have an informal air about them, it’s easy for finances to be treated in a casual way. Nonprofits Insurance Alliance and the Nonprofit Risk Management Center provide free introductory articles on ways to manage these and other risks. Reviewing last year’s budget is a key part of the process.

Budget

Budget Finance Management Proposal

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Supporting nonprofit and mission-driven affordable housing providers

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