Finance & Accounting

Manager Skills

5 Tips for Grant-Gazing: How to Determine Whether It’s a Star or a Black Hole

When determining whether or not a grant is worth pursuing, it’s important not lose focus on your primary objectives - both strategic and operational.

October 10, 2018 | 2 min Read

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Outcomes Measurement

Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

For years, we’ve used language from for-profit businesses to explain nonprofit organizational activity. However, that's made it more difficult to explain the critical connection between financials, fundraising, and mission delivery.

October 4, 2018 | 4 min Read

Change Management

7 Steps for a Successful Lean Implementation at your Nonprofit

Implementing lean processes can help nonprofits increase value and eliminate waste to better achieve their missions. Read these 7 steps for a successful lean implementation.

July 12, 2018 | 4 min Read

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Budgeting

Establishing a Grant Office at a Healthcare Organization

The decision to establish (or restructure) a grant office is one that requires human and capital resources as well as diligence in execution. So, it’s crucial to the ongoing success of your grant office that there’s clarity within the organization

July 5, 2018 | 3 min Read

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Fund Accounting

5 Nonprofits Financial Drivers That Are More Important Than Ever Before!

Today's environment has a lot of nonprofits concerned. Here are the top 5 drivers to ensure your organization has the financial information to be responsive.

November 14, 2017 | 2 min Read

Manager Skills

What Are Admin Expenses?

Employee salaries, purchasing office supplies, and paying the electric bill so the lights keep working are all examples of the admin costs.

February 27, 2017 | 3 min Read

Donor Cultivation

5 Best Practices for Negotiating Funding for a Thriving Nonprofit

Gratitude towards funders is critical, but thankfulness shouldn’t stop us from having honest discussions about expenses.

August 8, 2016 | 3 min Read

End-of-Year Giving

You Can Win the Fiscal Year-End Marathon, and Here’s How

If you follow our tips, you will stay positive, learn from past mistakes, and make next year’s audit even better than the last.

July 14, 2016 | 4 min Read

Fund Accounting

The 7 Steps to Choosing Nonprofit Accounting Software

This checklist breaks the selection process into seven critical steps, and provides tips on how to choose the best software for your nonprofit.

April 20, 2016 | 4 min Read

Financial Reporting

How Would You Rate Your Prospect Management System?| Part 4

Final post in a four-part series that outlines the various levels of prospect management we encounter with our clients. This blog deals with “Level 4: Well-oiled machine: All systems in place with nearly 100% adoption.”

December 17, 2014 | 3 min Read

Financial Reporting

How Would You Rate Your Prospect Management System?| Part 3

This is the 3rd in a series of 4 blogs related to developing and growing a prospect management system

October 14, 2014 | 4 min Read

Digital Marketing

Include Paper in Your Spring Cleaning

Guest Post by Laura Ngan Tian, Senior Consultant for Blackbaud’s Financial Management suite Spring is here! Wouldn’t it be nice [...]

April 15, 2014 | 2 min Read

Internal Controls

3 Tips to Better Manage Accounting for your Ticket Sales

Arts & Cultural organizations tend to have more unique revenue streams than any other type of nonprofit. So, today I'll share a few tips to better manage accounting for your ticket sales.

March 25, 2014 | 3 min Read

Budgeting

How to Overcome the 4 Roadblocks Facing Your Grant Strategy

Meeting grant requirements can generate significant challenges and increased administrative burdens, but is essential for future grant consideration.

March 13, 2014 | 2 min Read

What’s New and What’s Next: Why Your Finance Team Should Attend bbcon 2024

Streamlining Government Grant Compliance: A Checklist for Nonprofits

How to Manage Your Arts and Cultural Nonprofit’s Revenue Streams in Uncertain Times

How Nonprofits Can Avoid Buyer’s Remorse for Fund Accounting Software

The Lifecycle of a Nonprofit Budget: Keeping Your Mission at the Center

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How Nonprofit Accounting is Different from Small Business Accounting

Creating the Foundation for a Best-In-Class Nonprofit Finance Team

10 Considerations for Creating a Budgeting Process

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