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How does cash flow impact—and how is it impacted by—the way a nonprofit does business? Fiscal Management Associates’ Hilda Polanco and John Summers discuss the number one critical component of any business: day-to-day liquidity.
This webinar provides nonprofit leaders and those that fund them with a clarifying and more comprehensive way to understand, portray and sensibly support budgets. For Funders, this webinar can be paired with NPQ’s recent articles on multi-year, unrestricted grantmaking.
AN NPQ CLASSIC. There is a world of difference between financial management and financial leadership, and refocusing your approach from fiscal management to fiscal sustainability and agility gets you there. Outlined in this expert guide are such essential steps as transforming your annual budget analysis, deciding whether or not income diversification is the way to go, achieving a robust reserve, and equipping your board for effective financial governance.
Most nonprofits dream, at some point, about that endowment that would ensure their stability from year to year. But endowments aren’t for every nonprofit. This article walks the reader through their up- and downsides.
Are your nonprofit staff and board members financially literate about the work you do? That literacy can have enormous impact on the effectiveness of the organization—not just financially, but also culturally and programmatically. This webinar is for both current and emerging leaders.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: This article is the best description we’ve seen of all that makes up “full costs” in nonprofit budgets. We found it completely revelatory. This is one article you want your board and your funders to see.
This invaluable live workshop delves into the very different ways that two nonprofits, one a new merger and the other in growth mode under a founder, constructed their dashboards to reflect what each needed to track. The distinctions they make provide a peek into the richness of dashboards as a tool to focus specific strategic conversation among our various stakeholder groups.
Is the nonprofit sector overextended with debt? This archived classic by the unmatchable Woods Bowman looks at the data and the best practices behind nonprofits borrowing and repaying within their means.
This webinar walks the participants through a very practical program to help address a nonprofit’s financial integrity.
An LGBTQ organization in Alabama has found itself at the center of political controversy, and suddenly closed. Is this a problem with the organization’s practices, its operating environment, or both?
