Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

This post was originally published October 2016 and updated January 2025. Operating reserves are a crucial part of a healthy financial statement, and there are several ways to calculate, hold, and manage those funds. Consult your auditor and CPA to identify the options that work best for your organization.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Then, in 2015, the Wall Street Journal published an article that unnerved me. WAA has taken steps to institute a Whistleblower's Policy to protect employees who may report illegal or dishonest business practices. This is important and powerful work and WAA became a big part of the speeches I delivered that year.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, we wanted to share some of the most read articles we published this year. Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy by Astrid Vinje, Candid. Thank you for being a regular reader of Candid insights, which we launched as a new platform earlier this year. What can fundraisers do?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the number of students we taught rose and tenure-track faculty left, they were replaced with wonderful, intelligent, highly-trained contingent faculty with heavy teaching loads, by-the-course or one-year contracts, and little to no support for equipment, materials, or professional development. There’s sick days built into your contract.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We need to have a solid understanding of fields with differing skill sets, like accounting, writing, human resources, policy, administration, compliance. 5 Tips to Help Line Up Your Ducks Read the Management Documents Most governmental grants will have some sort of manual or guidance published and available to award recipients.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Either way, you can write journal articles on your work that can be published in peer-reviewed journals. And either way, you may be able to leverage your data to bring about policy changes. There may be no difference to your career whether you receive a grant for a project with an evaluation component or a research study.

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