Author Archives: Visceral Dev Admin

Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part One: Top 3 Measures of Financial Health

At NFF, we frequently get asked by nonprofit leaders, “Where do I start with finance?” In a three-part series on “Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health,” Alice Antonelli, Director for Consulting at Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), explores answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about nonprofit finance and shares best practices for financial &hellip

Getting Over "Overhead"

We’re not alone in bemoaning overhead as downright misleading measure of a nonprofit’s efficiency and effectiveness. So what’s next? In a new Nonprofit Quarterly article, we take a look at what nonprofits and foundations can do now to move beyond this unhelpful metric and break the “doom loop” of underfunding. The article is for anyone &hellip

"Why Funding Overhead Is Not the Real Issue: The Case to Cover Full Costs" in Nonprofit Quarterly

Claire Knowlton, Associate Director in Advisory Services, wrote an article for Nonprofit Quarterly about “The Case to Cover Full Costs.” This article voices NFF’s long-standing belief that overhead measures are poor indicators of an organization’s impact or financial efficacy.  Claire further explores what nonprofits and funders can do to end the “doom loop” of underfunded &hellip

Overcoming Barriers to Expanding High-Quality Early Care and Education

High-quality early care and education (ECE) programs have been proven to create positive outcomes for children—especially among those living in poverty. Yet many children from low-income families have a hard time accessing quality child care, and miss the critical developmental growth and foundation needed for academic and life success. Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is pleased &hellip

The Equity Capital Gap

Originally published in Stanford Social Innovation Review , June 1, 2008 For-profit businesses can efficiently and quickly raise large amounts of money to fund growth and innovation by tapping equity capitalmoney that people invest in a company in return for ownership and a share of profits. The nonprofit world has no corollary, making it difficult, &hellip