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How Nonprofits Can Manage Cash Flow During Financial Challenges

Blackbaud

This can be as simple as paying your semi-annual insurance premiums every month or setting up automatic payments instead of waiting for invoices to arrive. Understand Your Finance Committees Needs Know what your finance committee needs to see and provide those outputs to them. Its important to get something on paper to start.

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Supporting nonprofit and mission-driven affordable housing providers 

Candid

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.

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Understanding Nonprofit Overhead: Strategies for Transparency and Efficiency in 2025

Blackbaud

Most nonprofit finance teams have been taught to keep their overhead costs buried deep within their financial statements. These changes make it more important than ever for nonprofit finance teams to understand your organization’s narrative on your overhead expenses. On the positive side, the U.S.

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Building Resilient Funding Models: Essential Tips for Nonprofit Finance Professionals

Blackbaud

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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4 Nonprofit Financial Management Challenges (& Solutions)

Get Fully Funded

When you start a nonprofit, one of the most important things to figure out is how to manage your organizations finances. However, you can strategically cut other administrative costs by: Evaluating your organizations insurance plan to ensure youre getting the right amount of coverage for the best price.

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The 4 Core Nonprofit Financial Statements & Their Insights

Pamela Grow

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.

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How to Build a Better Nonprofit Budget in Less Time and with Less Stress

Blackbaud

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. These are set costs like headquarters rent, insurance, and administrative salaries. Without those, it can be a struggle just to make a plate of spaghetti.