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In Part I of this series, we talked about your surplus & deficit summaries, what information they provide you, and how to read them. We started with those because current and accurate surplus & deficit summaries can give you the…

The idea of explaining nonprofit financials in the space of a blog is somewhere between ambitious and absurd, better that’s never stopped us before. I like to say that nonprofit finance has just two jobs: to keep us out of…

Strategic planning sessions can be fun ways to engage and build your team, away from the day to day tactical stuff that commands our attention. Effective planning however, also involves being prepared to make difficult decisions and choices. Many of…

A good nonprofit finance team should, first and foremost, keep you out of jail. This is another way of saying that they are responsible for playing by the rules, understanding all aspects of compliance, and providing high-integrity financial statements that…

Capacity. We all reach it. At Non-Profit Advisors, we understand that many non-profit organizations have the delicate balancing act of a need for more capacity but don’t have the means to expand their workforce. Our solution: borrow our staff! We…

As a non-profit organization, the space in which you work has much deeper meaning. With clients, supporters, staff, partners, and community members walking through your doors each day, we understand that finding your workspace is very closely tied to finding…

In 2012, Inner Voice, like many nonprofit organizations, was experiencing funding cuts and was faced with the challenging decision of scaling back either program services or their administrative necessities. They looked to National Able Network for cost-saving solutions to address…

National Able Network understands that most non-profit organizations have unique office, space and leasing needs. Therefore, when it came to adding a new location in Chicago’s northern suburbs, we were in the position to create a real estate model that…

A lot of smart – and some not-so-smart – consultants have conjured up all sorts of methods for strategic planning. Ones you have probably heard about such as Balanced Scorecard, SWOT Analysis, Gap Planning, and the VRIO Framework are popular…

If you have ever been involved in the combining of two (or more) organizations, you probably already know that there’s a lot more that can go wrong than can go right. And nonprofits do not have a corner on the…