In What to Look for in a Nonprofit's Financial Statement, participants learned how to analyze and evaluate nonprofit financial statements and know what questions to raise for further analysis. They walked through a set of financial statements, focusing on definitions and relationships of numbers.
Innovative strategies and new investment opportunities can be used to align investment practices with mission objectives to sustain the public good. Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation offers a look at their investment policy which can be used as a template for others.
This Grantmakers for Effective Organizations publication highlights the financial challenges nonprofits face and the ways in which grantmakers are both improving the situation as well as perpetuating the problem.
Urban Institute Fellow Eugene Steuerle, a presenter at our recent program on the ongoing charitable deduction debate, shares some interesting ideas from his Congressional testimony on tax reform and charitable contributions.
The Wallace Foundation is launching the website strongnonprofits.org, which covers all facets of financial management, from budgeting to oversight to working with a board on financial accountability. The resources are designed to help charities...
As foundation communications become more and more strategic, the 990-PF—an annual information return filed by exempt private foundations—has become an essential tool, not only for grantmakers, but for the media, policymakers, and grantees as well.