Ann Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Effective financial management is critical for your nonprofit to grow and thrive long-term. By Jon Osterburg If you work for a new nonprofit, your team’s primary goal is probably to get your operations off the ground and start furthering your mission. Explore four considerations for achieving financial sustainability.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

Credit: Morgan Housel on Unsplash The funding landscape for nonprofits has undergone a seismic shift. Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. This means providing funding with the purpose of investing in the capacity of nonprofits to invest in their own enterprises.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Guest Blog by Jon Osterburg of Jitasa In recent years, “sustainability” has become a buzzword for many fields and practices, and nonprofit finances are no exception. Financial sustainability means that your nonprofit has both the foundation and momentum to fund your operations year-round while working toward future expansion.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Christine Hunt One of the most impactful grant programs the Kendeda Fund has ever undertaken was funding our nonprofit partners’ operating reserves. While living that close to financial insolvency may be common, it is extremely risky for any nonprofit, not just those whose funders are sunsetting.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, which points to dozens of breakthroughs where open Form 990 data enabled new insights and practices.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 2, 2024

Managing your nonprofit’s finances is about more than just raising money and recording what you earn and spend. This means it’s crucial not only to manage your organization’s reserve funds well but also to stay aware of the current financial best practices and trends in the nonprofit sector.

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The Agitator

JUNE 13, 2013

As Craver points out, not only do the organizations topping CIR’s worst list engage in misleading fundraising, they do so by piggybacking the brands of ethical nonprofits. Fortunately, nonprofits and the for-profit professionals who support them are very good at this. Name confusion causes lasting harm to honest organizations.

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