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Nonprofit Fundraising & Finance Best Practices | The ENGAGE Blog Utility Navigation Blackbaud.com Community Sign In Main Navigation Fundraising Finance & Accounting Education Higher Education K–12 Schools ESG & CSR Grantmaking Leadership Fundraising Finance & Accounting Education Higher Education K–12 Schools ESG & CSR Grantmaking Leadership Blackbaud.com Community Sign In Online Giving Streamline the Donor Journey: From First Gift to Lifelong Support Whether your fundraising year is tracking ahead of schedule, right on track, or you’re off to a bit of a [...] May 1, 2024 | 3 min Read Donor Management How to Determine Your Needs When Choosing a New Fundraising CRM April 25, 2024 | 4 min Read Awards and Scholarships Improving Student Communications in Your Scholarship Process May 2, 2024 | 3 min Read Data Management Information: The Better Half of IT April 17, 2024 | 5 min Read Internal Controls How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle April 23, 2024 | 4 min Read Latest Posts Budgeting How to Build a Better Nonprofit Budget in Less Time and with Less Stress Like a good recipe, your nonprofit budget requires high-quality ingredients, easy-to-follow steps, and a knowledgeable cook or two to put [...] May 6, 2024 | 3 min Read Fund Accounting 5 Ways Fund Accounting Simplifies Financial Reporting for Community Health Centers With multiple points of accountability and dynamic funding sources, accounting professionals in community health centers face complex challenges. Not the [...] May 3, 2024 | 3 min Read Audits Beyond the Audit: 6 Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm In recent years, relationships between nonprofit organizations and their auditors have seen positive change. Auditors are viewed less by nonprofits [...] April 26, 2024 | 6 min Read Donor Management Inspire Generosity with a Better Online Donation Form In digital philanthropy, it has never been more important to seek out and embrace innovations, especially innovations in online donation [...] April 17, 2024 | 5 min Read Grants Strategy Blackbaud Grantmaking: Examining the Past, the Present, and the Future If you are a grantmaker, you know how important it is to have a reliable and efficient software system that [...] April 15, 2024 | 5 min Read Enrollment and Retention 5 Things Colleges Can Do Right Now to Impact Fall 2024 Enrollment The ongoing FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) delays have left students with less time to compare financial aid [...] April 15, 2024 | 3 min Read Artificial Intelligence artificial intelligence Leveraging AI in Major Gift Fundraising: A Game-Changer in Philanthropy March 11, 2024 | 6 min Read artificial intelligence Join the AI Revolution: Build Your First Low-Code Fundraising App February 26, 2024 | 5 min Read artificial intelligence AI, Analytics, and Your Nonprofit’s Technology Strategy February 2, 2024 | 5 min Read artificial intelligence How to Use AI Fundraising Tools to Boost Donor Engagement Artificial Intelligence (AI) fundraising may seem like no more than the newest philanthropy buzzword. In reality, many nonprofits like St. [...] January 30, 2024 | 4 min Read Featured Experts Andy Fisher Senior Principal Solutions Engineer at Blackbaud 5 Tips for Community Health Centers to Transition to New Fund Accounting Software Chanler Cox Vice President of Sales & Partnerships at Omatic Streamline the Donor Journey: From First Gift to Lifelong Support Lekisha Middleton Founder of The Good Success Network Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action The Engage Podcast Tune in to the ENGAGE Podcast to hear experts from across the community share best practices, tips, and must-know trends that will help organizations maximize their impact. Explore Podcasts Grateful Patient Create a Successful Doctors’ Day Fundraising Strategy February 29, 2024 | 24 min Listen artificial intelligence The Role of AI in Corporate Social Impact February 8, 2024 | 36 min Listen Compliance What Nonprofits Need to Know About Data Privacy January 25, 2024 | 20 min Listen Hidden Gems Diversity Equity and Inclusion Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what? You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding [...] October 17, 2022 | 6 min Read Donor Cultivation 4 Ways to Support Your Nonprofit’s Outreach with Direct Mail Successful outreach requires understanding your donors and what makes them decide to give. Of course, no two donors are exactly [...] March 26, 2021 | 5 min Read Register Now Download now Online Giving 10 Steps to Better Mobile Donation Forms The future is now. In 2020, some studies showed that mobile website traffic surpassed desktop traffic. Hopefully, your donation form [...] September 3, 2021 | 3 min Read Data Insights How to Use Data to Improve Prospect Identification I have always found one of the most exciting things about the nonprofit sector to be its diversity. Nonprofits encompass [...] September 26, 2022 | 6 min Read Fundraising Finance & Acct. Higher Ed K–12 Schools ESG & CSR Grantmaking Leadership Donor Stewardship Draft Your Dream Team for Donor Stewardship If good stewardship is centered on building a sustainable community of supporters, who will partner with you to help that [...] October 4, 2023 | 4 min Read Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 10 Simple Fundraising Tips Guaranteed to Improve Effectiveness If you’re an individual raising money for a cause you care deeply about or a nonprofit organization looking for ways to equip and motivate your supporters to raise money for your fundraising event these tips will give you just what you need. January 16, 2024 | 5 min Read Annual Giving Using Data to Make Annual Giving Work for You Annual giving folk are a strange breed. I know because I’m one of them. We aren’t tempted by the glamour [...] November 20, 2023 | 4 min Read View All Fundraising Posts Fund Accounting How Nonprofit Accounting is Different from Small Business Accounting Accounting is an essential part of any ongoing enterprise. It is the meticulous process of recording and organizing financial transactions [...] November 21, 2023 | 5 min Read Fund Accounting 4 Financial Metrics to Increase Transparency for Your Nonprofit Every day, you and your donors are inundated with thousands of pieces of news and bits of information. It can [...] December 29, 2023 | 4 min Read Financial Reporting Creating the Foundation for a Best-In-Class Nonprofit Finance Team Nonprofits rely on their finance teams to educate management and the board on all financial aspects related to the organization. [...] March 29, 2023 | 4 min Read View all Finance & Accounting Posts Enrollment and Retention Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap? The phenomenon of our shrinking school-aged population is well documented. People have been choosing to have fewer children, and that [...] July 24, 2023 | 5 min Read Alumni Engagement From Prospective Student to Active Alum—Engagement Fosters Lifelong Support When you hear the name of your alma mater, what feelings bubble up? What keeps you engaged? In our family, my husband, daughter, [...] February 9, 2024 | 5 min Read Awards and Scholarships Creating a Connected Campus to Award More Scholarships and Improve Student Outcomes What challenges does your scholarship program face? Get tips and tricks on getting organized and doing even more to support deserving students. July 20, 2023 | 3 min Read View all Higher Education Posts Annual Giving The Changing Face of School Funding The world of K-12 education is in great flux right now. Thousands of independent schools are struggling with tuition levels [...] November 12, 2012 | 2 min Read Compliance Best Practices for Protecting Your K–12 School from Cyber Security Threats Malicious cyber activity is on the rise worldwide. In private K–12 schools, foreign cybercriminals, school vendors,...