Grants can be an important source of funding for nonprofit organizations. While individual donors are important for fundraising, grants often let you access more funds in one application than collecting multiple donations. Grant writing can feel intimidating,...
How does your nonprofit make strategic decisions? Are you relying on intuition or guesswork? A better way to make decisions is using data. Leveraging data for strategic decision-making has many benefits–from improving your efficiency to increasing the success rate of...
John Renouard is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization, WHOlives. Like many nonprofit entrepreneurs, John’s career path wasn’t centered around becoming a 501c(3) director. For him, the journey truly started after he became curious about his...
You might think of big businesses and billion-dollar takeovers when you hear the term “merger,” but for-profit corporations aren’t the only organizations that can benefit from mergers. Many nonprofits use mergers to strengthen their organizations. Ultimately,...
As a young college student in the ROTC program, Alisa recognized a hardship for her Australian Shepherd, JD. With Alisa’s husband deployed and as she herself was heading to training for the Marine Corps, JD had nowhere to go. After a cross country trip from CA to VA,...
Financial forecasting is a term you’ll hear thrown around in the business world quite often—but in the world of nonprofits, it can be difficult (and even downright impossible) to plan your organization’s finances with any degree of certainty. After all,...