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Nonprofit Leaders Answer: What Are Your Nonprofit’s Priorities and Goals for 2025?
Nonprofit leaders and Blue Avocado readers answer the question, “What are your nonprofit’s priorities and goals for 2025?”
Practical Tips for Nonprofit Budgeting
Every nonprofit needs a budget, but some are more effective than others. Consider these tips for making a budget that works well for everyone.
Time to Fold: Keys to Gracefully Winding Down a Nonprofit
How would you know if it was time to shut down your nonprofit? These lessons learned from closing the Cancer Prevention Institute of California might help.
Nonprofit Budgets Have to Balance: False!
There are some good reasons why nonprofits sometimes have deficit budgets, that should be left that way. Find out why.
Five Signs Your Nonprofit is Ready to Reach a Bigger Community
Does your nonprofit consistently reach the same group? It may be time to consider expanding your marketing efforts to reach a wider audience.
The Secret to a High Impact Annual Report
There are only four things people look at in a nonprofit’s annual report. Focus on what people actually read.
Rethinking Perpetuity: Resetting Endowment Expectations After the Pandemic
With endowments, let’s rethink ‘forever’ and explore new, flexible ways to ensure your nonprofit organization’s longevity and effectiveness.
A Bigger Budget and Smaller Butt in Just 12 Weeks!
How a Make-A-Wish Executive Director took an unusual approach to raising funds for her organization.
Ask Rita: I Have a Bad Boss! Help!
Ask Rita responds to two reader questions about what nonprofit employees can do when a difficult boss is beginning to become a real problem.
Attorney Recommends Review Instead of Audit
A nonprofit considered moving away from having an annual audit to having a review, and the board wanted a legal opinion before making a decision.
True Stories of Grantseeking: A First-Person Nonprofit Story
There are three levels of exchange in the grantor-grantee relationship. Explore one of the least discussed: The one-to-one interaction.
How to Hire Your First Development Director
The only thing worse than not having fundraising staff is having bad fundraising staff.
Identifying and Mitigating Nonprofit Risk with a Six-Step Crisis Communication Plan
Nonprofit leaders must be proactive in identifying risks, take steps to prevent them, and be prepared with a communications plan in the event of a crisis.
Benchmarking and Analyzing Salaries: A Fast How-To
Analyze salaries by charting salary ranges, adding benchmark salaries, and two ways to review individual salaries.
Nonprofit Leaders Answer: How Do You Communicate the Impact of Your Nonprofit’s Programs or Services?
By blending authenticity with analytics, nonprofits are using creative storytelling and multichannel data to better communicate their real-world impact.
DIY: Make a Bylaws Cheat Sheet
Bylaws Cheat Sheet: If a copy of the by-laws is handy, it’s tedious to have to look over all the legalese for an answer to a simple question.
A Beginner’s Guide to Lobbying for Nonprofits
Many nonprofit leaders don’t know that lobbying is 100% legal for nonprofits. Here are four steps nonprofits can take now to get smarter about lobbying: accept the importance of lobbying, get the facts, meet with officials, and join a trade association.
Funding Innovation: Top Tips
How can you fund innovation when your nonprofit continues to struggle to keep the lights on? Here are some ideas.
Against the Current: Regina Anderson
Interview with Regina Anderson of Food Recovery Network. Challenging students to provide healthy meals and fresh ideas to their communities.
The Data Is In: Nonprofits Are Getting More Operational Support
A compelling case for how nonprofits can build organizational capacity and infrastructure to ensure longevity by getting funding for those investments for their nonprofit.