Deciding on a Facility Project

If your organization is considering a facility project, there will be a special set of challenges to your infrastructure, which may already be hard-pressed to meet the demands of day-to-day responsibilities. As you prepare and manage the project, your decision must be able to withstand scrutiny in several areas. This planning guide provides an outline &hellip

Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Three: Understanding Full Costs

In a three-part series on “Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health,” Alice Antonelli, Director for Consulting at Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), shares answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about nonprofit finance along with best practices for financial health in the social sector. Her first post explores the “Top 3 Measures of Financial &hellip

Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models

In a three-part series on “Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health,” Alice Antonelli, Director for Consulting at Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), shares answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about nonprofit finance along with best practices for financial health in the social sector. Her first post explores the “Top 3 Measures of Financial &hellip

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

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