Financial Management
No Budget, No Mission: A Guide to Basic Nonprofit Budgeting
How can nonprofit budgeting help nonprofits maximize the impact of their mission? Learn how to budget with a basic budget template.
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.
Why Earned Income Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Is your nonprofit chasing the shiny object of earned income instead of social impact? How to tell if social enterprise is right for you.
Top 10 Nonprofit Board “Worst” Practices
Pitfalls to avoid and real screw-ups that can undermine the impact and disrupt the natural flow of nonprofit boards.
Tips for Nonprofits: Surviving Government Shutdowns
All nonprofits should draw up contingency plans to cushion the impact of these cuts and survive future shutdowns.
Social Enterprise & Earned Income: A Key To Revenue or a Distraction?
It sounds like a great idea to start a social enterprise that provides both income and impact, but it’s a bit more complicated than that.
The New Fundraising Frontier: Impact Investing
There’s a growing movement among foundations toward impact investing: equity investments, loan guarantees, and everything in between.
The Nonprofit Student Debt Conundrum
Despite Millennials’ desire for jobs that allow them to do good and feel good, student debt may be keeping them unaffordable to nonprofits.
Process, Process, Process: The evaluation model you shouldn’t ignore
While many nonprofits focus on impact evaluations, process models can be invaluable for helping organizations make real, lasting impact.
Financial Focus: You Told Us
Blue Avocado readers share thoughts on how the current political landscape will affect your organization’s funding.