Finance
Master the art of nonprofit finance. Explore a curated collection of articles, insights, and resources on budgeting, fundraising strategies, compliance, and more.
Discover practical advice and expert tips to effectively manage your organization’s finances and maximize your impact.
Stuck Between a Financial Crisis Wrought by the Founder and a Hard Place
A deputy director describes the crisis at an organization where the founding executive director left, and how the organization almost closed.
Donor-Advised Funds: Non-Transparent Tax Shelters for Good
Donor-advised funds are believed to incentivize charitable giving. Donors get to pick from a smorgasbord of benefits. Nonprofits struggle.
Donor-Advised Funds Background
A brief introduction to donor-advised funds (DAFs). A DAF typically affords the advantages of two kinds of anonymity for a donor.
High Pay for Nonprofit Execs? Analysis of 100,000 Salaries
Everybody has an opinion about nonprofit executives’ salaries, but almost nobody has any real data outside their own experiences.
Vanguard Foundation Update: With Leader Pleading Guilty, “Truth and Reconciliation”?
Rick Cohen provides thoughts about the fall of the Vanguard Foundation and the impact on the nonprofit sector.
Nonprofits: How to Survive an IRS Audit
The true life story of an environmental organization’s audit, how they survived, and their tips for the rest of us.
Vanguard Foundation Update
An update on Vanguard CEO Hari Dillon and major donors involved with businessman Mouli Cohen and a series of get-rich-quick schemes.
The Philanthropic-Consultant Industrial Complex
Rather than supporting nonprofits, foundations and consultants are increasingly telling nonprofits what they should be doing.
Contract Wizardry: Conjuring Impact from Government Contracts
“When you start with the needs of the community, and you’re opening to listening, you realize that doing one or two things isn’t enough.”
Only Bad Restaurants Go to Scale
We in nonprofits are good at taking on myths and sacred cows. But perhaps the least examined of these myths is the one about going to scale.