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Navigating the nonprofit world can be challenging. Blue Avocado offers expert guidance on a range of topics — from building strong boards to maximizing your fundraising impact. Explore our latest posts for practical tips, strategies, and solutions to common issues facing nonprofit organizations today.
There are only four things people look at in a nonprofit’s annual report. Focus on what people actually read.
A governance committee can be an effective way to help define the board’s work, the work of individual members, and strengthen that work.
Blue Avocado provides suggestions for which written documents a nonprofit organization’s board should have.
Nonprofits face increasing pressure to show that their programs are evidence-based. How to “tweak” these practices to your own populations.
Advice for a nonprofit supervisor with a bookkeeper that has missed deadlines and may be coming to work drunk.
Blue Avocado readers share their ways of signing off on nonprofit emails. The consensus is quick, and in keeping with the tone of the email.
Embezzlement is especially painful for community nonprofits. Here are the most common types of nonprofit embezzlement and how you can deal with them.
Standard elements of a drug and alcohol free workplace program for nonprofits. Includes a sample drug- and alcohol-free workplace policy.
Sadly, fun at work sounds like an oxymoron to lots of people. Blue Avocado contributor Janice Clark offers some ideas to lighten things up.
Immigration rights groups are prepping the way for legislative reform, which they say is critical to addressing the issue over the long-term.
Perhaps the single most important attribute of an effective board is also its most intangible: An independent sense of itself.
With the elections coming up, a nonprofit’s staff is buzzing with political talk. Ask Rita shares how to avoid this creating a minefield.
Be sure that your nonprofit is getting the most value out of your relationship with your broker, and with your insurance companies.
Many nonprofit board members don’t think about the organization’s insurance until something adverse happens. Here’s the low-down on liability.
Blue Avocado explores the plight of people in the nonprofit sector who find themselves close to retirement without enough savings.
A quick roundup of just a few of the most compelling and informative nonprofit commentaries around recent financial developments.
Blue Avocado shares steps for how a nonprofit organization can shut down its operations and ride into the sunset gracefully.
Exploring different ways nonprofit employees can plan and save for retirement — and which ways are better suited than others.
For nonprofits, it’s hard not to think that closing down is the ultimate disaster. But sometimes a lack of money or energy forces the issue.
After Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi community nonprofits used the region’s recovery as a stepping stone to lasting social change.
Would it support your cause if your organization took a stand on a public policy issue? Is it legal to do so? And how would you go about it?
Part one in this three-part series on nonprofit retirement looks at calculating retirement needs and using that information to explore choices
Ask Rita provides policies nonprofit organizations should consider when adding a policy forbidding cell phone use while driving.
A quick checklist for Family and Medical Leave Act requests as a way of making sure you’ve remembered all the key points.