Financial Risk Assessment: A 3-Level Model for Nonprofits in 2025
As nonprofits navigate uncertainty, there is an immediate need for leaders to assess risks and consider their responses to likely scenarios.
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A Three-Dimensional Approach to Revenue Planning
As nonprofits reimagine their budgets, boards and staff should consider a balance between diversity, flexibility, and reliability.
The Shifting Landscape of American Generosity
This Generosity Commission report aims to understand the world of giving as it exists today, with all its contradictions.
Everyday Actions, Extraordinary Potential: The Power of Giving and Volunteering
Generosity Commission examines the decline in donors (but not dollars) in recent years through a lens of social isolation and lack of trust.
Nonprofit Capacity Building: A Multiple-Capitals Approach
A discussion of nonprofit capacity building through the lens of accruing a variety of different kinds of capital.
Who Are Stakeholders and Why Do They Matter?
A stakeholder is a person (or entity) who can affect and/or be affected by your organization—who, in other words, has a stake in your work.
Social Media Capital for Nonprofits: How to Accumulate It, Convert It, and Spend It
The 2010s saw the advent of social media capital, which can be converted or expended toward strategic organizational outcomes.
Budgeting for Change
Adapting the budgeting process for nonprofits in the process of transformation — which, in our uncertain times, is all of them.
Budgeting for Impact
Steve Zimmerman considers the budgeting process an opportunity to leverage the collective intelligence and experience of board and staff.
Nonprofit Full Costs Realized: How 2 Nonprofits Transformed their Budgets
This workshop offers lessons on embracing the “full costs framework” in your nonprofit and speaking to funders about full cost coverage.