The Charity CFO

JUNE 26, 2023

Whether you’re a new organization or an established one working to get its finances under better control, there are few more important things to get right than your nonprofit operating budget. It serves as the backbone of your nonprofit’s spending, fundraising, and much more.

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Affnetz

JUNE 28, 2022

Why is donor engagement often a matter of life or death to small nonprofits? Donor engagement is essential to fundraising success, but for small nonprofits, it can mean whether a nonprofit has enough funding to continue operating. Why is donor engagement often a matter of life or death to small nonprofits?

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Affnetz

JUNE 28, 2022

Why is donor engagement often a matter of life or death to small nonprofits? Donor engagement is essential to fundraising success, but for small nonprofits, it can mean whether a nonprofit has enough funding to continue operating. Why is donor engagement often a matter of life or death to small nonprofits?

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Nonprofit Fixer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Have you ever wondered how to find and hire an interim executive director for your nonprofit? In the nonprofit sector, we don't talk much about interim executive directors. You've been a nonprofit leader for decades, including serving as an executive director for New York’s LGBTQ Community Center for 22 years.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Statement of Activities is the Income Statement of a nonprofit organization. You may also know it as a profit and loss statement or income and expense report. As a nonprofit, you call the difference between revenue and expenses the change in net assets. . Revenue: How much money did you receive ? .

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Bloomerang

MAY 13, 2021

In this donor-centered approach, nonprofits seek to discover as much as they can about the potential donor. Like an onion, it needs to be peeled one layer at a time. There are certain things that must take place: Donors talk more than the nonprofit leader. Nonprofit leaders ask more than tell. So, be patient!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

A midyear evaluation will show you how you are doing and highlight areas where you need to improve. Because wherever you are with your fundraising, no matter how far behind you think you are, with six months remaining in the year, you have plenty of time to make changes and raise more money.

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The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re like most nonprofit leaders, you probably have questions — and possibly mixed feelings — about nonprofit debt. That’s because you’ve also probably received mixed messages about nonprofits and debt. Nonprofits aren’t often encouraged to take on debt.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As a nonprofit, your attention is likely focused on doing everything you can to serve your beneficiaries’ needs. Approximately 38% of nonprofit organizations are at risk of shutting their doors due to pandemic-related financial strain. Nonprofit Investment Accounts. Savings Accounts and Money Markets.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

JUNE 23, 2022

Your nonprofit does what you need to do to keep the core of your finances compliant. You set an annual budget and fill out your Form 990 on time each year. But this is often not enough for nonprofit organizations to get the most from their finances. Are you even sure your Form 990 is correct?

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The call to close this employment gap around the world is urgent, but what do the openings of all these cafes mean for workers with disabilities, particularly in the United States? These workshops are now run by nonprofit organizations that exclusively employ disabled people to do menial work.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2021

As the founder of a new nonprofit, you are probably doing everything yourself and working for free instead of taking a nonprofit salary. . Everything seems important and you really, really want to get your new organization up and running so you can do the work of changing lives.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. 1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Getting Started: Setting your goal How much revenue must be raised?

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 15, 2023

While the nature of a nonprofit means you’re focusing more on your mission than making money, bringing in revenue is still essential. Accurate revenue recognition, classification, and records are some of the most important aspects of nonprofit accounting. Which method is best? That depends on your organization’s size and complexity.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 8 “When we think of climate action and being green, we think about everything from how buses run to how buildings are maintained,” said Nguyen.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 26, 2019

After all, nonprofits often work on volatile shoestring budgets , making it difficult to add another set of wages to the payroll. Whether or not you should expand is a question that’s different for everyone—it’s personal and should be considered within the context of your organization. Evaluate your workload. Budget it out.

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Welcome back to the Modern Nonprofit Podcast at The Charity CFO. Whether you are a consistent listener or joining for your first time, the podcast dives deep into the world of nonprofits, and sometimes for profit spaces to share industry specific principles, unique business practices, and much more. Based out of St.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2023

A typical home care worker earns even less, just $18,100 per year, according to PHI , the nonprofit organization formerly known as the Paraprofessional Health Institute. As is well known, the United States relies far more on for-profit businesses to meet its population’s health and care needs than most other countries.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 18, 2021

In my previous post I outlined the 3 types of marketing automation tools fundraising operations really should understand. Plus I recommended you deploy high-level automation to support the raising of major and planned gifts. Plus, I said it can help you move your mid-level donors up. You know it’s true. Respected? .

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 29, 2021

If you read all my previous posts (starting here) about how you can use marketing automation to raise more major and legacy gifts, you’re probably starting to see how powerful this technology can be for your nonprofit’s fundraising operations. Two types of data you want and need. Catching up.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

But to make it more than just a slogan, you need policies and institutions to make that right into a reality. Not so long ago, social housing was rarely discussed in the United States. Each seeks a unique path to meet the needs of their own localized version of the broader housing crisis.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. Aaron: Yeah, let’s do it. . We’d love to hear from you. Introduce yourself if you have not already.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

The way we tell our stories sets our expectations and influences how we view our lives in relation to our world. In mainstream storytelling paradigms, there is always a need for a hero, usually one, and the idea that we can live happily ever after. We organize our worldviews on the patterns of storytelling. For nothing. To not consume.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As we envisioned this new place, we also needed to think about the community guidelines. Here is the process I went through to develop the guidelines, which you will find below. Focus on what you want first, rather than the “don’ts.” Focus on what you want to happen in the community first.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2015

This article originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. In our March/April 2015 edition, we explored how to make the most of National Volunteer Month. To reserve your free copy of our next issue, sign up today. . Have a Clear Vision.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

“Those of us working in nonprofit organizations need to take our eyes off of overhead ratios and put [our focus] far out into the sky and look at our dreams for impact.” — Dan Pallotta. Work in the nonprofit sector often gets clouded by stigmas and the notion that no one is supposed to spend any money. Is the opposite true?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 7, 2015

As excited as you are about your new organization and as ready as you are to roll up your sleeves and get to work, you can’t escape this reality: You need money. Before you get too far ahead of yourself, you must have a good handle on what it’s going to take financially to operate your nonprofit.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Why does your nonprofit need an operating reserve? . A report released last year by Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy estimated the worst-case scenario would lead to the closure of 38% of nonprofits in the United States. What is a nonprofit operating reserve? .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Nonprofit new media managers often battle mobile and social media burnout. All day, almost every day, nonprofit new media managers are immersed in breaking news and thus the world’s problems.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 25, 2017

Nonprofits are made up of passionate individuals. Whether you’re a founder or a semi-regular volunteer, you are an integral part of the organization and its operations. These passionate individuals should make up the face of your nonprofit , not a logo or a profile picture on Facebook. It’s all about the people.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This article originally appeared in our November/December 2015 issue of Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine. You can reserve your free copy today. Even if you’ve grown entirely comfortable with the process of approaching people for money (and if you have, kudos to you), closing an ask can still be a challenge.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

By Jim Bildner In 2012, more than a decade ago, in response to a growing wave of impact investing obsession, Kevin Starr warned that impact investing was doomed to fail: “Few solutions that meet the fundamental needs of the poor will get you your money back,” he observed, and “overcoming market failure requires subsidy.”

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Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

As a passionate and committed leader in the nonprofit sector, I firmly believe in the power of community organizations to drive positive, equitable change. There is no better way to drive our mission forward than to invest in the people doing the hard work. 7 steps to prioritize employee worth.

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The Charity CFO

MAY 2, 2022

And when they know how to read a 990, they can find out A LOT about your organization. W atchdog organizations, large donors, and grantmakers regularly use your 990 to uncover a nonprofit’s financial health in just a few seconds. So what do your donors want to see when they read your IRS Form 990? How do you spend your money?

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you’re like most nonprofit leaders, you’re not researching nonprofit accounting basics to satisfy your curiosity. You need to get a better grasp of your organization’s finances now. with this overview of nonprofit accounting basics. . What is nonprofit accounting? Now before you run away, hold up!

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. Good morning if you’re on the West Coast, I should say. Hope you’re having a good day. You can tweet us.

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