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4 Common Event Planning Challenges + How to Solve Them

The Fundraising Coach

From tight budgets to limited staffing, these hurdles can make even the simplest event feel overwhelming. Budget Constraints Tight finances can make it difficult to secure venues, hire vendors, and provide high-quality experiences for attendees. Group discounts can also inspire more people to attend.

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

Blackbaud

Revenue diversity is a good hedge against the unexpected, but diversity alone is not enough when your budget is threatened or dismantled by outside forces. Use budget scenarios to plan for possible outcomes and contingencies. Save time by leveraging your technology so your finance team can focus on strategy, not bookkeeping.

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What it takes to be more data driven

Candid

Candid and the Center collaborated to encourage Center members to update their profiles with enough information to earn a Gold Seal, which requires organizations to share demographic information about their leadership. Transparency: It’s a best practice for nonprofits to be transparent in their operations, governance, and finances.

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Future-proof your fundraising: 3 ways to thrive long-term

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Let’s explore some forward-thinking and (perhaps surprisingly) accessible ways for small nonprofits to drive sustained success and reduce the need for constant cost-cutting and budget anxiety. But planned giving is also very accessible—any donor, regardless of wealth, can easily create bequests.

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The overhead myth: crash course to fundraising transparency

Candid

Overhead ratio essentially refers to the amount of a nonprofit’s budget that’s dedicated to overhead costs (i.e. Work with a nonprofit accountant to create an ironclad budget and stick to it. The nonprofit overhead myth is a pervasive challenge, causing both external and internal limitations on a nonprofit’s finances.

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

Candid

It provides free information on nonprofits’ missions, visions, values, programs, leadership, and finances. You can review nonprofits’ tax returns on GuideStar to find out more about their budgets, expenses, and how much top salaried employees are paid. These include cover letters, proposals, letters of inquiry, budgets, and more.

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5 Tips to End Your 4th Quarter Strong with Effective Donor Outreach in Year-End Campaigns

GiveSmart

As your finance team is preparing for year-end, with prepping reports and making sure your budget is on track, your donor development and fundraising teams are hard at work, too. While your finance team is buttoning up the reporting and chart of accounts, the rest of your revenue team can take part in a financial check, too.

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