How Board Members Can Learn to Spot the Red Flags
This piece by Kate Barr discusses how nonprofits can address potential problems while they're still small enough to squash.
Content Type: Insights
America’s Health Centers: By the Numbers
NACHC's annual infographic showing who health centers serve, their positive health impacts, and their economic contributions.
Five Steps to Healthier Working Capital
Five steps to healthier working capital through savings strategies — and why liquidity matters.
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.
Understanding Nonprofit Financial Health: Key Ratios and Metrics and How to Calculate Them
Should you worry? How can you assess your organization's financial health? Financial ratios are one way to answer such questions.
Anatomy of the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: An Analysis of Falling Overhead Ratios in the Nonprofit Sector
This research shows overhead costs trending down, reflecting cuts in administrative expenses offset by growing fundraising expenses.
Lone Financial Wolves and the Downside of Trust
When it comes to nonprofit scandals, it’s often precisely when a leader is endowed with high levels of others’ trust that fraud occurs.
Types Of CRM Applications Explained: Which One Is Best For You?
This piece from the Forbes Advisor by Lee Davis and Cassie Bottorff provides a comprehensive guide (circa March 2023) to the varieties of customer relationship…
Commons Collection – Strategy and Planning
A selection of resources about business models for nonprofits. Curated by the Nonprofit Financial Commons.
5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Consider More Than Interest Rates When Evaluating Loan Options
This blog post from IFF examines what nonprofit organizations should keep in mind as they ponder taking on debt