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4 Tips for Tracking the True Cost of Nonprofit Programs
When you develop your nonprofit’s budget, you do your best to project your revenue and expenses accurately. Usually, you’ll base your estimates on past performance, accounting for seasonal revenue variations and recurring expenses that impact your nonprofit year after year. While this best practice improves your budgeting accuracy, just looking at last year’s program expenses isn’t enough. To accurately track nonprofit program costs, implement specific strategies that allow you to [...]
What Is Your Donor Data Hiding? 4 Insights for Growth
Each touchpoint between your higher education institution and its community, whether on or offline, generates a critical strategic asset: donor data. Used properly, this data serves as more than just a list of alumni names and their contact information. Identifying key insights like donors’ career milestones, wealth indicators, and interests will help you take advantage of valuable opportunities. Whether you are meeting in person with potential major donors or planning [...]
5 Essential Emails Every Nonprofit Should Be Sending
Between work emails, retail promotions, and other nonprofits vying for attention, inboxes are crowded, so staying top of mind with your supporters takes more than good intentions. It takes strategy. Unlike your social media following, which is really a "rented" audience at the mercy of ever-changing algorithms, your email list is fully yours. It's a direct line to the people who already care about your mission. But owning the channel [...]
Measuring Your ROI From Donor Prospect Research Operations
When your development team uncovers a list of wealth-screened leads, you’re not just collecting names. You’re laying the groundwork for sustainable fundraising growth. According to sector data, identifying the right supporters early in the donor lifecycle is absolutely critical to long-term fundraising success. However, development departments frequently struggle to demonstrate the return on investment, or ROI, from donor prospect research, leaving board members and executive leadership wondering whether their premium [...]
How to Create & Maintain Your Nonprofit Chart of Accounts
If you’re building the financial systems for a new tax-exempt organization, getting the structure right early will save your team time and energy later. In particular, it’s critical to create a chart of accounts to provide a foundation for all of your other accounting activities going forward. Developing this resource effectively from the start allows your team to spend less time tracking down financial records and more time applying the [...]
How to Increase Museum Visitor Retention Using Modern Tech
Your museum invites your community to discover, learn, wonder, and grow. While one-time guests definitely benefit from viewing your exhibits, it’s the repeat visitors and members who can fully take advantage of all you have to offer. Building these relationships over time with returning guests also contributes to your organizational sustainability, and tech can help you tap into this vital revenue stream. To support your retention strategy and scale it [...]
The Nonprofit Executive’s Guide to Gift Processing
Strong institutional governance begins with an unyielding commitment to financial transparency and regulatory compliance. The nonprofit gift processing infrastructure serves as the core of this operational framework. While many executive leaders view donation administration as a routine, back-office data-entry task, it is, in reality, the primary gatekeeper for all incoming charitable revenue. When operational controls are weak, organizations expose themselves to significant vulnerabilities. Therefore, establishing an airtight administrative pipeline requires [...]
Meet the Top Nonprofit Speakers Driving Real Impact in 2026
The charitable landscape continues to shift and develop. To drive real impact in 2026 and beyond, it’s important that nonprofits look toward leaders who have successfully navigated the intersection of technology and donor stewardship. This guide introduces six expert nonprofit speakers whose field experience and innovative strategies help organizations of all shapes and sizes scale their revenue and engagement. From standout peer-to-peer success to workplace giving marketing and automation, the [...]
How to Simplify Finance Tracking for Higher Ed Scholarships
How to Simplify Finance Tracking for Higher Ed Scholarships With 58% of American families relying on scholarships to pay some portion of their children’s college tuition, it’s crucial that your scholarship office can effectively help students receive this vital assistance while tracking every aspect of administration along the way. Managing scholarships and institutional funding involves many moving parts, and a major obstacle preventing many educational organizations from adopting modern [...]
The Dos and Don’ts of Reimbursements for Remote Chapters
Remote chapters have become one of the most powerful drivers of growth available to modern associations. By expanding beyond a central headquarters, your organization can expand its reach without the demands of physical offices in every region. But geographic expansion comes with a trade-off. The same flexibility that makes remote chapters so attractive also creates logistical hurdles, particularly when it comes to spending and reimbursements. When volunteers submit expense reports [...]
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