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April 22, 2025
Invite Communities In
How philanthropy can support nonprofits in times of crisis
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September 23, 2025
How Nonprofit Leaders Can Navigate Financial Uncertainty
For many nonprofit leaders, this is an unpredictable and chaotic time The simultaneous challenges of policy shifts and economic pressures are making...
Projects & Reports
June 17, 2025
2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey Findings
Essential, Enduring, and Under Strain: The Nonprofit Sector's Strength and Struggle in a Shifting Landscape
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August 8, 2025
Love Letter to Nonprofits
Dear Nonprofit Leaders and Changemakers, In a world where the distance between need and available resources continues to widen, your work has never...
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March 19, 2017
Pitfalls and Dangers to Avoid During Facilities Projects
If you’ve cleared your first hurdles and are now ready to face the challenges of construction, there are a variety of ways in which the wrong...
Blog
March 19, 2017
Before You Begin: What is a Facilities Project?
Most people know a facility project when they see one–buying or renting a building, renovation, office build-out, major repairs or systems upgrades...
Blog
October 26, 2016
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...
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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...
Blog
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...
Blog
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...