Recent Posts
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.
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Nonprofits and the Media
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Pay Off My Student Loan or Pay Into a 401K?
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Why is it called Blue Avocado?
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Abolish Board Committees?
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Reasons to Have (& Not to Have) an Attorney on a Nonprofit Board
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Can We Require An Employee To Take Her Meds?
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Promises, Promises: Rural Advocates vs. Big Philanthropy
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Five Ways to Let Government Money Run You Over
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Good Management vs. Good Leadership
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What Do I Say to a Donor or Funder?
The stronger the relationship between the board and chief executive, the better they work together for a planned transition.
We hire new staff, we hold team-building events, we might even bring in a consultant to determine the causes. But there is one area that is often overlooked when trying to fix problems: the culture of the organization and its connection to mission and values.
The board expects the Executive Director (ED) and CFO to work in partnership to further the mission, but most boards also expect the CFO to perform a “watchdog” function. If the ED is the engine of the bus, the CFO is the insurance, the maintenance, and yes, sometimes the brakes.
The efforts you make to meet the ED’s needs and assert your needs will pay off for both the ED, the CFO and the community.
While more and more in our sector push for real systems change, here are three practices that could advance nonprofit justice work.
When to engage in an interactive process with employees to determine if a disability limits their ability to perform essential job functions.
Is your nonprofit’s team unbalanced? To correct the balance, there’s some unbiased actions that need to happen.
When we embark upon what’s known in the nonprofit world as “donation season,” chances are that your organization thinks about putting together a fundraising video or other media that demonstrates the impact of your work.
How to evaluate an employee’s request for a religious accommodation and when to appropriately provide such accommodations.
Every nonprofit needs a budget, but some are more effective than others. Consider these tips for making a budget that works well for everyone.
Forecasting is financial prototyping, and it’s a tool that will remain as part of our finance strategy. Download the budget forecast template.
How can supervisors help their employees perform at their most productive level and maintain consistency in their approach to managing their employees?
Seven results-based ideas and three relationship-based ideas on how to build your nonprofit’s capital structure.
Terminating an employee because they haven’t shown up or reported in should be pursued only after proactive efforts to reach out have failed.
Blue Avocado explores procedures concerning who is permitted to catalog and inventory donated items received by a nonprofit.
Tax law concerning nonprofit organizations can be complex. Blue Avocado explores where tax laws do and don’t apply.
No one is too important, too indispensable, or too essential to escape discipline for zero-tolerance policy violations.
Mr. Ronald Chisom, Rev. David Billings, and Ms. Barbara Majors of PISAB facilitated an interactive webinar to introduce concepts that address the root causes of systemic oppression.
Learn how Compassionate Atlanta developed trust with one another through shared power in their nonprofit model.
Jim Taylor of BoardSource shares an overview and description of “The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership” – a new board leadership mindset based on four fundamental principles.
An employee has taken proprietary information and used it to start a competing nonprofit. What is our recourse, if any?
Solving challenges is ultimately about creating the outcomes we want. By asking goal-oriented questions, you’ll come up with better outcomes.
Implementing a finance committee of the board of directors was one of the best things our organization ever did. Here’s why.
Four reasons your nonprofit and its mission can benefit from conducting a board evaluation.