Financial Management
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.
Get the Most Value from Your Audit
Audits are expensive in terms of money, staff time, and board attention. CPA Dennis Walsh tells us how to wring the most value from them.
Outsource Your Bookkeeping!
Outsourced accounting — having the accounting done by an outside person or firm — isn’t new, but it is getting a second look as nonprofits search for ways to cut office costs.
Lucky 7: The Casino Industry and Philanthropy
Is it worth going all-in on casino philanthropy? Only if you know when to lay the odds and when to take the odds.