Financial Management
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.
How Nonprofits Can Work With Their Bankers Amidst Change
How to help your banker to give your nonprofit organization as much credit as possible.
The Financial Outlook for Nonprofits
Results of a survey of 500 nonprofits on their organization’s financial outlook in 2017.
Is Your Nonprofit Ready for a Capital Project?
Is your nonprofit considering raising funds and investing in building or renovating a piece of property? Save time, money, and headaches.
A Board Member’s Guide to Nonprofit Overhead
Calculating overhead rates and managing expenses are important roles. Board members need to bring an informed perspective to oversight.
A Funder’s Message to Other Funders About Overhead
There is a lot of buzz around “impact”, “outcomes” and “evidence-based practices”, but not enough about how nonprofits can achieve them.
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.
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.