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October 19, 2016
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...
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October 12, 2016
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...
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January 25, 2016
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...
Commentary
June 1, 2008
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...
Commentary
March 1, 2005
The Looking Glass World of Nonprofit Money
Originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly , March 1, 2005 If management is part mystery and part art, it is also part basic science and arithmetic...
Commentary
March 1, 2003
Hidden in Plain Sight: Understanding Nonprofit Capital Structure
Originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly , March 21, 2003 Capital structure is the distribution of an organization’s asset, liabilities and...