A Simple Approach to Quickly Improving Board Financial Literacy
Here’s how to use executive summaries and annotations to keep your board members focused and informed on the metrics that matter.
Content Type: Insights
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.
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?
2025 and Beyond: Phased Action Guidance on Nonprofit Finance
This series is intended to help you to not just survive but find strength in the challenges we must address with immediacy and purpose.
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.
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.
Community Influences: Understanding Nonprofit Markets
How executives can segment the market, develop shared understanding of relevant forces, and prioritize pressing market-based challenges.
Changes in Nonprofit Compensation Rules for January 2025 — and the Need for Even More Change This Year
This year, we will be keeping an eye on issues that affect the nonprofit workforce, starting by reviewing changes to how workers are paid.
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.