Recalibrating Your Business Model for Lasting Mission Impact
In disruptive times, business models must evolve. Rethink how programs, funding, and operations align to focus your nonprofit on impact.
Article Topic: Funding
Programmatic Living Wills and Other Nonprofit Considerations in 2025: Notes on Retrenchment and Reconstruction
The best-managed nonprofits are combining risk management with the “hunker down” strategy from the beginning of the COVID crisis.
How Reliant Are Nonprofits on Government Grants?
How many nonprofits receive government grants? And how big a role do government grants play in the nonprofit sector?
A Three-Dimensional Approach to Revenue Planning
As nonprofits reimagine their budgets, boards and staff should consider a balance between diversity, flexibility, and reliability.
12 Urgent Financial Action Steps for Nonprofits: A 2025 Checklist
In the wake of executive orders and a federal grants freeze, we offer action steps for the first phase of extended financial uncertainty.
Community Influences: Understanding Nonprofit Markets
How executives can segment the market, develop shared understanding of relevant forces, and prioritize pressing market-based challenges.
How Do NPOs Get Funding? A Business Model Perspective Based on the Conversion of Symbolic Capital
A new framework for considering how and why nonprofit organizations partner with for-profit organizations for funding.
Linking Indirect Costs and Financial Health: The MacArthur Foundation’s Approach to Revising its Indirect Cost Policy to Better Support Grantees
Even with a clear and consistent method of calculating indirect costs, many organizations’ investment in infrastructure may be inadequate.
The Need for Patient Capital in the Arts has Implications for All Nonprofits and Foundations
Building and rebuilding sustainable nonprofit businesses is not for the faint of heart or seekers of immediate profit.
Not Worth It: Chicago Catholic Charities Quits 75 Government Contracts
For the thousands of nonprofits who have or are considering government contracts, this is a blockbuster story.