Fundraising Events That Actually Net Money
The gap between gross and net at most fundraising events is wider than the board thinks. Here are the five places revenue quietly leaks — and the operational fixes that close them.
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The gap between gross and net at most fundraising events is wider than the board thinks. Here are the five places revenue quietly leaks — and the operational fixes that close them.
Calling a donation free doesn't make it free. It just shifts the cost onto your staff and your shelves — where it accumulates quietly until someone asks for a number. Here's how to track in-kind without the chaos.
Federal time-and-effort rules don't reimburse recollections — they require contemporaneous, specific, certified, auditable records. Here's why month-end allocation spreadsheets keep failing audits, and what to do instead.
A continuity plan is only as good as where its artifacts live. If the documents your plan depends on are in a binder in the building you're evacuating, you don't have a plan — you have a description of one.
On a cold night, the line outside is the most honest measurement an organization has. It moves at the speed of the slowest part of intake — and the slowest part is almost never the work the staff is doing.
Recruiting fees are the smallest part of what you pay when a caseworker leaves. The rest is paid by clients during the handoff — and by the team that stays. Continuity belongs in the record, not in someone's head.
Donors don't want fancy. They want accurate, on time, and the same answer twice. Here's what it takes to actually tell them where their dollars went — and why it changes how they give.
If your finance team spends the week before every grant deadline reconciling spreadsheets, the problem isn't your team — it's where the data lives. Here's the structural fix.
Volunteer turnover almost never gets framed as a workflow problem. It almost always is one. Here are the six friction points that quietly push good people out the door.
The breaches that cost mission-driven organizations the most money rarely involve hackers. They involve well-meaning staff and tools that weren't designed for clinical work. Here's what to watch for.
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