Insights Archives - Nonprofit Financial Commons

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.

Here’s how to use executive summaries and annotations to keep your board members focused and informed on the metrics that matter.

As nonprofits navigate uncertainty, there is an immediate need for leaders to assess risks and consider their responses to likely scenarios.

How many nonprofits receive government grants? And how big a role do government grants play in the nonprofit sector?

This series is intended to help you to not just survive but find strength in the challenges we must address with immediacy and purpose.

As nonprofits reimagine their budgets, boards and staff should consider a balance between diversity, flexibility, and reliability.

This Generosity Commission report aims to understand the world of giving as it exists today, with all its contradictions.

This year, we will be keeping an eye on issues that affect the nonprofit workforce, starting by reviewing changes to how workers are paid.