The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 31, 2023

By Sara Herschander Spending cuts the federal government is considering come at a time when the uncertain economy is making fundraising tough, leading one prominent nonprofit expert to reach a breaking point.

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The Charity CFO

JUNE 10, 2022

Your finance committee spends the most time analyzing and studying your nonprofit’s numbers, yet your entire board of directors is responsible for financial oversight. Doing so helps you ensure your team truly understands your finances and can help you do your job more effectively. Activate the Finance Committee.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 20, 2022

Community leaders detail increased demand, how they're adapting, and what they need now in the Nonprofit Finance Fund's "2022 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey.".

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 12, 2023

Nonprofit finances in the United States were relatively strong at the beginning of 2022, largely as a result of government and foundations stepping up their support of nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) represented a massive experiment in innovative financing.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Aside from payroll, your nonprofit’s finances also include diverse revenue sources and expenses that must all be carefully balanced. A nonprofit bookkeeping and compliance professional will help keep your records in check, making sure you don’t leave anything out when managing staff payroll. Consult a compliance expert.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 17, 2023

Founded in 2009, Keystone provides shared nonprofit finance, IT, and HR services. Combined, M+S and Keystone offer nonprofits the full spectrum of strategic and administrative services. Mission + Strategy Consulting is joining the Keystone Alliance family of organizations.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Financial Management for Nonprofits: The Role of the Nonprofit Finance Committee. Financial management can be intimidating for many nonprofit professionals, especially those new to oversight roles in nonprofit organizations.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Sara Herschander Inflation is cooling, unemployment remains low, and the stock market is making gains, but something more elemental — the weather forecast — took a toll on nonprofit finances in July. Across the country, heat waves, wildfires, and flash flooding have made charities' jobs tougher.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 3, 2024

TOPA, in particular, is being emulated across the country as a tool that helps tenants, with nonprofit financing and technical assistance support, to come together and preserve affordability by becoming owners themselves, either through a limited-equity cooperative or nonprofit structure.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

DECEMBER 18, 2023

READ ARTICLE Other Popular Topics In addition to new content from 2023, nonprofit professionals continued to rely on these articles and online resources from the Nonprofit Leadership Center: 7 Traits of Emotionally Intelligent Leaders How to Calculate the Value of Volunteer Time 6 Traits of Inclusive Leadership Financial Management for Nonprofits: (..)

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I recently spoke with Tosha Anderson of The Charity CFO and A Modern Nonprofit Podcast about the importance of marketing and branding in the nonprofit sector. Need help understanding nonprofit finances? Check out her site!

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. The lack of access to financing [meant that the grant] nearly destroyed the organization. An ally had reached out separately to Seed Commons , a cooperative network of funds that finance worker cooperatives across the United States.

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Finance Non-Profits Collaborations Public and Nonprofit Management 103

Tony Martignetti

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Dean Dalzell & Jerry Frick: Financial Literacy For Your C-Suite & Board Leadership that understands your numbers protects not only your nonprofit. It also protects the people filling those roles. It also protects the people filling those roles.

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 24, 2022

Managing a nonprofit’s finances is not a one-person job. Sure, your financial team– your bookkeeper, accountant, and CFO (if you have one)–take the lead role in managing your finances. The high-performing organizations we work with all ensure that nonprofit financial management is a collaborative effort.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 13, 2023

Aisha Benson , CEO of the Nonprofit Finance Fund , emphasized the long-term impact of redlining , a policy of legalized housing lending discrimination backed by the federal government from the 1930s until the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. We need to change that.”

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

You may be wondering what a treasurer can do for your nonprofit, or you may be interested in becoming a treasurer yourself. Read on to learn about a nonprofit treasurer’s duties. What does a nonprofit treasurer do? Many nonprofits do not have in-house accountants and choose to outsource instead. Get the free guide!

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

If we want nonprofits to support us in the next crisis, they must have sufficient resources. And to know what nonprofits need to do their jobs effectively, we must ask them directly. Additionally, the Paycheck Protection Program offered forgivable loans (de facto grants) that helped nonprofits shore up finances damaged by the pandemic.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 12, 2024

Financial forecasting is a term you’ll hear thrown around in the business world quite often—but in the world of nonprofits, it can be difficult (and even downright impossible) to plan your organization’s finances with any degree of certainty. What Is a Financial Forecast for Nonprofits? Get the free guide!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Finance office perspective (year in which the gifts are logged as receivables. Finance Office Perspective. It is likely your finance office will need to log the gifts as receivables in the year they actually become available to you in your bank account. Donor perspective (for tax deduction purposes) . Donor Perspective.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This application is the gateway to generating revenue for your organization, but it’s important to remember that a lot more goes into managing your nonprofit’s finances than simply getting permission to raise money. Establish internal controls to protect your nonprofit’s finances and ensure the responsible use of donations.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 27, 2023

And way too many small nonprofits operate without one. A nonprofit budget can bring so many positives: Finances are much easier to manage because you know what expenses and revenue to expect. Very soon, you’ll have a nonprofit budget that serves you well and helps you manage the finances.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Then you have to create a true financing plan that covers how you’ll hit that number. Can you think about your budget as a financing plan that funds your organization? Ultimately, you need to shift your fundraising plan into a financing plan. It’s non-negotiable: You have to know your true budgeted need. Invest in your people.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 15, 2017

Nonprofit Audit 101: A Guide to The Fundamentals and More is a quick guide for nonprofit finance leaders and executive leaders, providing key fundamentals and know-how, first class best practices, and insight into how to optimize the nonprofit audit process at your organization.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 15, 2017

Nonprofit Audit 101: A Guide to The Fundamentals and More is a quick guide for nonprofit finance leaders and executive leaders, providing key fundamentals and know-how, first class best practices, and insight into how to optimize the nonprofit audit process at your organization. Common misconceptions.

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Non Profit Accounting Academy

JANUARY 27, 2022

Her focus is on sharing with nonprofit finance directors her lessons learned from 25 years of on-the-job training. About ten years into my fifteen-year term at a Catholic Charities agency in upstate New York a relatively new finance committee member, Mr. Shea we’ll call him, disappeared.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Your finance committee chair? . Your finance chair is concerned with prudent financial management. When it comes to building your endowment, first consider who you need to persuade to get on board with this idea. Is in your executive director? Your chief financial officer? Your program director? Your board chair?

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 8, 2020

Networking and commiserating with colleagues and friends in the nonprofit space revealed that I was not alone. We were all on pins and needles, and most of us were constantly stressed about finance. . For the next two years, I continued to reflect on my nonprofit experience and talk with colleagues still in the sector.

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Fundraising Coach

JULY 5, 2017

They will help your nonprofit clarify its mission and vision. And done properly, they can help you stabilize your nonprofit's finances which will help you raise even more money! Check out his training over at The Nonprofit Academy : Why Nonprofits Should Make Money, Not Just Raise It ( [link] ).

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 5, 2022

At The Charity CFO , we work exclusively with nonprofit organizations to give them accurate books, timely reports, and expert advice on their nonprofit finances. So if you’re ready to modernize your finances and finally find the time to focus on your mission, click the button below to find out how we can help you.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 27, 2012

” This guest post and Anjali’s organization, Nonprofit Finance Fund , may have you re-thinking what the term “bottom line” means for your nonprofit, and therefore how you communicate your effectiveness to your supporters. Guest Post by Anjali Deshmukh of Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 22, 2022

If you need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to a nonprofit finance and accounting professional such as TheCharityCFO. We understand that tax season can be complicated for nonprofits. The post 1099 Best Practices for Your Nonprofit appeared first on The Charity CFO. Get the free guide!

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A minority of nonprofits have more than six months of cash in reserve, according to reports like the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s State of the Sector ; many have less than three months of operating reserves on hand.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2021

At File 990, we provide a simple online tax-filing process and equip organization leaders with insightful nonprofit tax tips. We understand the importance of strategic nonprofit finances and how your taxes play a crucial role in your accounting strategies so we’ve put together a quick resource to help you learn more.

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MARCH 17, 2020

If you can help someone today, do it.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They will have good advice about ways to structure your nonprofit finances responsibly. Today, nonprofit leaders have access to software, like a donor database , that can help them reach their funding goals. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. Try to gain the technological edge.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

APRIL 2, 2013

The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) has released its annual State of the Sector survey, and it shows nonprofits like yours are struggling with a tough funding environment and increasing need for the services you provide. This is requiring tough choices - and changing the way you do business, according to the survey.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

The Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2014 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey is out and the report has some sobering insight on how nonprofits have fared during the economic recovery. While 80% of respondents reported an increase in demand for services, 56% of those surveyed were unable to meet demand in 2013.

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