by Cyndi Lauren | Dec 6, 2018 | communications, development and fundraising, Financial Reporting, Fresh Eyes, fundraising, Nonprofit operations, office workflow, Operations, Protecting Yourself, Strategic Planning
We are all breathlessly waiting for the end of this year. Cranking through Giving Tuesday and and the run up to the End -Of-The-Year fundraising push is lots of hard work and hopefully will provide you with big dividends. January is right around the corner when you...
by Cyndi Lauren | Mar 3, 2018 | development and fundraising, Emergency Planning, Financial Reporting, fiscal management, Nonprofit operations, Protecting Yourself
The organization was a small self defense program, teaching real world self defense skills to women, children and men. Most of the instructors were volunteers and the office was managed by the Executive Director who was the founder and a board member as an...
by Cyndi Lauren | Sep 27, 2016 | Financial Reporting, fiscal management, Nonprofit operations
You are out with a potential major donor, and they ask, “has every member of the board given to the organization?” Sound familiar? Ongoing fundraising is an undercurrent in most nonprofit organizations, even those with lots of money. There are always more costs,...
by Cyndi Lauren | May 3, 2016 | development and fundraising, Financial Reporting, fiscal management, Making Money, Nonprofit operations, Operations, Tools
A nonprofit metric is a standard of measurement, most often represented with numbers. A number has little ambiguity on its own, but alongside other numbers, the meaning of that number can become less clear. In nonprofit management and fundraising there has...
by Cyndi Lauren | Dec 8, 2015 | development and fundraising, donor advice, Financial Reporting, Protecting Yourself
The end of the year is the fastest and most furious time in fundraising. With Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesday, Holiday Giving and End-of-the-Year tax deduction giving, my email box has been filled each day with urgent solicitations. Some are from organizations I have...
by Cyndi Lauren | Oct 6, 2015 | development and fundraising, Financial Reporting, fiscal management, Nonprofit operations, Operations, Protecting Yourself, Tools
Not sexy or fun, but you’d be smart to know Just because you have received an exemption from federal income taxes as a nonprofit doesn’t mean the tax man don’t cometh. Nonprofit organizations do not have to pay taxes on income they generate, but there is a...
