Finance
What’s Behind the Bottom Line
A new Bottom Line report from the National Center for Arts Research examines trends in…
Barriers to Mission Financing: Not All Nonprofit Money Is Created Equal
Precarious financial health can be an ongoing obstacle for culturally specific nonprofits. A new report…
Insomnia and Upset Stomachs: Sounding the Alarm for Solid Nonprofit Finance
Financial health and integrity is all about planning, execution, and transparency. But the real indicator…
Pretty Bad Best Practices
Call them rules or “best practices”—these are the guidelines that have been laid out for…
Who Pays for the Common Good?
The closing of Minnesota’s Crisis Connection raises a question: What is the balance between serving…
Financial Management Is a Teachable Skill
One of our foundational beliefs at Propel Nonprofits is that the nonprofit sector is chock…
8 Lessons From the Front Lines of Nonprofit Arts Management
We’ve worked with a wide range of arts organizations. Here are a few of the…
To Build, Buy, Beg, Borrow, or Boldly Lease
Our mission, our brand, and our success can all be tied up in the location…
Making Progress Together
A group of 10 nonprofit representatives committed to six months of ½-day sessions around financial…