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

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

Community Boost

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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Policy

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

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. Are spending and reporting policies clear?

Grants

Blackbaud

JULY 1, 2025

Donor Confidence and Legacy A well-managed endowment signals that an organization is financially responsible and future focused. The Role of Spending Policies Organizations establish spending policies to ensure that endowment funds are used wisely. Managing these funds requires more than financial expertise.

Policy

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

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

In this article, you’ll learn about the different types of audits nonprofit finance teams commonly work on and the most common nonprofit audit mistakes for each, giving you a better understanding of how to avoid these mistakes for your next audit. This will help with your financial audit as well.

Finance

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The funding and distribution phases of limited life endowments require more drastic changes in the asset allocation policy. It is vital for decision makers to be consistent and adhere to the policy. However, the total dollars granted will be reduced, meaning risk management will take priority during the distribution process.

Funding

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When you start a nonprofit, one of the most important things to figure out is how to manage your organizations finances. As your organization expands and evolves, many complexities can arise, making financial management more difficult for your team. Lets get started!

Management

Blackbaud

APRIL 3, 2025

During the recent webinar, Unmasking Fraud in Not-for-Profits: Five Key Schemes and Five Preventive Steps , we engaged with hundreds of accounting and finance professionals from not-for-profit entities across the country. Following a standard expense reimbursement policy may be a more secure process.

Policy

Get Fully Funded

JULY 30, 2025

If you’re unsure about the best strategy, create a gift acceptance policy and consult with a nonprofit finance advisor to ensure alignment with your organization’s financial strategy and risk tolerance. Instead, consider strategic cash management or investment of your reserves to generate additional revenue.

Funding

Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

Governance and Management factors: How does your Board feel about how much you should have in reserve vs spending on programs? What the Nonprofit Finance Fund calls consistent surpluses is the best way to build reserve funds. Uneven cash flows: How much does your income and spending vary throughout the year?

Contract

Candid

JUNE 4, 2025

They can immediately focus on key priorities, including fundraising and programs, while benefiting from the fiscal sponsors tax compliance, accounting, governance, and finance functions, including accepting gifts and approving and administering program expenses.

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

Blackbaud

MARCH 17, 2025

F undraising Best Practice Resources On-demand webinar: Everyday Actions, Extraordinary Potential: Engaging Everyday Donors Communicating with Donors in An Uncertain Funding Environment Get Your Grant-Funded Nonprofit Started in Fundraising Finance and Operations Best Practice Resources Webinar (March 25): Navigating Federal Funding: Essential Risk (..)

Funding

NonProfit PRO

JULY 15, 2025

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Retail

Grant Writer Team

MARCH 27, 2025

The board approves budgets, reviews financial reports, and ensures proper controls are in place to keep finances in check. Risk Management From finances to reputation, the board identifies and mitigates risks. Governance & Ethics Boards set policies that keep operations ethical, legal, and mission-aligned.

Government

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

One nonprofit leader shared six lessons learned from a bad board experience organizational policies to help your nonprofit set expectations, prevent dysfunction, and avoid a laundry list of problems. Finance Once your nonprofit or private foundation is tax-exempt, you never have to deal with the IRS again, right?

Budget

Blackbaud

JUNE 19, 2025

In today’s challenging economic and political environment, the social impact sector is facing increasing pressures related to finances, resources, and tools. The potential of AI to enhance fundraising, donor management, and overall efficiency is immense.

AI

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Effective internal controls along with comprehensive policies and procedures help reduce the opportunity for a fraudster to succeed. BELIEF THAT FRAUD Won’t Happen Here Managers sometimes believe so strongly in an organizations mission that they are blind to the idea that someone may commit fraud against them.

Training

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.

Finance

DoJiggy

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Effective Policies : It allows you to develop effective policies and procedures for animal care and handling, ensuring consistency and quality. Our system is designed to maximize fundraising potential by enabling you to easily set up, manage, and promote your events across multiple channels.

Policy

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 23, 2025

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Funding

Blackbaud

APRIL 15, 2025

Finance officers must include the Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Activities, Statement of Cash Flows, and, for many nonprofits, the Statement of Functional Expenses. This provides confidence to donors and financial stakeholders, ensuring they can trust how funds are managed and used.

Finance

Blackbaud

APRIL 7, 2025

Creating and managing accurate budgets requires collaboration and buy-in to make sure everything is accounted for. Why Budgeting for Your K12 Private School is Hard A good private school budget requires transparency, time, and input from a variety stakeholdersmany of whom are also teaching classes, coaching teams, and managing performances.

Budget

Blackbaud

MARCH 17, 2025

As the current administration rolls out new policies and executive orders, nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, and other grant recipients must adapt or risk losing essential funding opportunities. Proactively responding to policy updates can help organizations avoid disruptions and ensure continued support.

Federal Grants

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

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Retail

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

Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

By understanding and managing operating reserves, nonprofit leaders can navigate their organizations toward greater longevity and stability, ensuring they remain trusted and impactful stewards of their missions for years to come. Operating reserves are the result of careful managerial and governance planning, hard work, and determination.

Policy

Bonterra

JUNE 27, 2025

Make it easier for your team to manage your organization with one of the best nonprofit constituent relationship management (CRM) systems designed for organizations like yours. This board is responsible for the organization’s mission, finances, and legal compliance.

Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

JULY 23, 2025

Even small functions need a budget template to follow – there are always unexpected expenditures that can muddle your organization’s finances, like printing costs for flyers, invitations or sign up sheets. Having one ambiguous budget for an event can get messy quickly without a template to follow for each aspect of the event.

Template

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Each board member may bring a specific skill or may be a generalist, but in the aggregate, the board provides a full set of business skills to ensure that the executive director is employing best practices — whether it’s finance, budgeting, strategic planning, change management, or succession planning.

Ethics

Blackbaud

MARCH 7, 2025

As leaders in nonprofit finance, it’s our job to be prepared for the inevitability of change. Before we dive into how to manage those changes, lets start with a few scenarios of why your organizations budget might change. Human Error Human errors such as poor management or inadequate planning can necessitate a budget adjustment.

Budget

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 19, 2024

But it’s never a good plan when you are managing accounts payable for your nonprofit organization. Your nonprofit’s accounts payable policies create easy-to-follow guidelines to help provide that consistency. Here is why you need accounts payable policies for nonprofits and how you can design them to scale with your organization.

Policy

Candid

MAY 13, 2021

Manage budgets based on multiple projects. For instance, investing in an automated program, such as expense management software , can help you save time, yield better results, and increase efficiency. This post discusses the signs a nonprofit should consider expense management software. Managers need to approve them.

Software