Blackbaud

JUNE 4, 2025

For example, a newly hired finance manager is stepping into a nonprofit with no formalized internal control policy. On the other hand, a large nonprofit managing multiple programs may face complex risks, such as fraud or data breaches, if clear policies arent in place. What Should Be Included in Your Internal Control Policy?

Policy

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Post-Award Pressure Is Real For experienced grant writers, post-award management can feel like the most overlooked and underestimated beast in the grant world. Managing post-award requirements is where trust is built, impact is proven, and your funding future is secured. Logic models. Site visits. Congratulations!

Award

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. Its managed, maintained, and shared. 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.

Burnout

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.

Finance

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.

Finance

Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 27, 2025

But often it is the effective post-award management of these funds that builds credibility with funders and creates systems for even further growth. While these are important skills, post-award grant management is equally essential—and increasingly expected of those who serve in the profession.

Award

Ann Green's Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Effective financial management is critical for your nonprofit to grow and thrive long-term. One important but sometimes overlooked step in future planning is ensuring proper nonprofit financial management. According to Jitasa , most nonprofits start out using the cash accounting method to track their finances—i.e., Methodology.

Finance

Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

Many nonprofits rely heavily on grants to fund their missions, but successfully securing and managing grants requires a clear understanding of the grant lifecycle. Proper management ensures funds are allocated efficiently and projects deliver the intended impact. Optimize resource use. Build stronger funder relationships.

Grant

Blackbaud

JULY 7, 2025

As a student employee scanning physical records to becoming the System Administrator managing the paperless transition, I got a front row seat and hands-on experience taking the organization from reams of paper to gigs of data. Digitalization was the key to making that level of oversight possible. Enter PaperSave.

Finance

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.

GPC

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. Plus, electronic document management gives you access to all the details you need and provides a better audit trail. Ready to automate your AP processes?

Finance

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When your grantmaking organization first started, you didn’t need a lot of functionality to manage your single program and a handful of grantees. Make sure you have the right people in the right roles to manage the switch. This should include input from all stakeholders, including database managers, program staff, and IT personnel.

Grant Management

Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2025

With all the economic uncertainty right now, you may be worried about your nonprofits finances. Invest in a good CRM/database Plain and simple, a good CRM (customer relationship management)/database can help you raise more money. Maybe your giving has gone down and youve cut back on some expenses.

CRM

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.

Finance

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.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

As a tech leader at a growing social impact organization, you know that migrating to an enterprise-scale constituent relationship management (CRM) system can be a daunting proposition. An enterprise-scale CRM is designed to handle large volumes of data, ensuring that you can manage your records and maintain required data hygiene.

CRM

Blackbaud

MAY 13, 2025

Financial Accountability: Donors, grantors, and the public trust nonprofits to manage their finances responsibly. Risk Management: Internal controls help identify and mitigate risks, protecting the organization from financial loss and reputational damage. Examples include backup procedures, disciplinary action, and insurance.

Policy

DoJiggy

OCTOBER 29, 2024

An effective online giving platform simplifies donations, encourages generosity, and helps churches manage their funds more efficiently. Integrations : Seamless integration with your church’s existing systems, such as accounting software or church management systems, can streamline operations and save time.

Donation

Blackbaud

MARCH 31, 2025

Set a benchmark so any payments under that amount, such as $5,000, only need to be approved by the grants manager. Any payments over that amount need to be approved by the grants manager and a member of leadership. Looking for a grants management system that works with your fund accounting system for streamlined grant distribution?

Grant

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Operational audits, which assess your organizations internal systems, productivity, staffing, and management practices. These often look specifically at one area of your operations, such as technology, data management , or human resources. Issue an RFP. Completing prep work will help your audit go more smoothly.

Nonprofit

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

SmarterSelect A system designed for grantmakers and applicants to manage the entire grant application workflow effectively. Fluxx A grant management platform that connects funders and applicants, simplifying applications and tracking. Below is a sample budget template.

Grant

Wild Apricot

JUNE 16, 2025

Running a nonprofit comes with a long to-do list – raising funds, managing programs, keeping records, staying compliant – the list goes on. A fiscal agent is an organization, typically an established nonprofit, that manages money and administrative tasks on behalf of another group. What Is a Fiscal Agent?

Logic Model

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 29, 2025

Often, the finance department handles the process, leaving grant managers unaware until after the fact. Grant writing might sometimes feel like an individual sport, but managing the award is a team effort. Make sure finance, program staff, and leadership all understand the proposal and budget inside and out.

IT

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

Like individual fundraising, securing grants requires strong collaboration with finance, program staff, and leadership. Setting up tracking systems, clarifying compliance procedures, and aligning staff on roles and timelines ensures effective grant management and long-term success. What is the current post-award process?

Grant

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

This guide covers the fundamentals that your finance team needs to know during every stage of the grant so you can handle it confidently from award to closeout. Understanding the Grant Lifecycle for the Finance Office Government grants follow a predictable journey, and the finance team plays a mission-critical role at each stage.

Government

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. It highlights how cash is being managed, which is critical for planning and ensuring financial stability. Are these reports public or internal?

Liability

Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Understanding the distinctions between capital, program, and operating grants is crucial for effectively managing your organization’s finances and meeting its goals. Steady Funding : Operating grants can provide a reliable source of income to help stabilize the organization’s finances.

Grant

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Coffman stated in their GuideStar article : Theres no question that nonprofit organizations have an obligation to manage their finances responsibly. Can a new financial management solution help drive better efficiency in meal delivery? Is an expense management or purchasing solution part of mission delivery?

Metrics

Blackbaud

APRIL 16, 2025

The finance team shoulders immense responsibility to make sure funds are well-stewarded, often while being understaffed and under-resourced. When your accounting system is correctly configured and you can manage your data easily, you can make more confident and transparent decisions for your organization.

Finance

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Free Resource Aligning on a Revenue-Wise Strategy Download Now The post Managing Your Operating Reserves During and After an Emergency first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud. To learn more about operating reserves and developing a strong operating reserve policy, check out our Nonprofit Operating Reserve toolkit.

Management

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As a nonprofit finance professional, you want all your data to be accurate. Keep reading for actionable tips to improve your allocation processes and avoid issues common to managing your nonprofit payroll and time tracking for grant reporting. Maintaining compliance can protect existing funding, as well.

Grant

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As a nonprofit finance leader, you are constantly aware of the many different pulls on your funding availability. The best way to manage those differing priorities is through budget management tools that give you a clear view of each program, instead of trying to pull apart the organizational budget.

Budget

Candid

MAY 5, 2025

In practice, even when digital tools are available, they may not align with how people live and manage money. Their deep roots in local contextsand long-standing connections, understanding, and trust among the populations they serveposition them to make digital finance more inclusive, relevant, and accessible.

Policy

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.

Award

Blackbaud

JANUARY 24, 2025

It helps you better understand your donors, keep them engaged, and work more efficiently with your finance, marketing, programs, and leadership teams. Here are some examples of CRM integration: When you connect Eventbrite to Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT , the industry-leading fundraising CRM, managing events becomes much simpler.

CRM

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform works with nonprofits and boards to manage and invest funds by combining donation page giving with cash management. We are excited to be part of this journey to help transform financing capabilities for the nonprofit industry,” Gui Hadlich, investor at Cubit Capital said via a statement.

Finance

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A good finance team will make sure bills are paid on time, reports are accurate, and the Board of Directors has access to the current financial statements. A good finance team will help you stay where you are. A good finance team will help you stay where you are. A world-class finance department will help you evolve.

Finance