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[Compliance The Nuances of Cost in Federal Grants Management Managing federal grant costs sounds simple enough. You receive the award, follow the approved budget, and spend the money on [...] October 15, 2026| 5 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/the-nuances-of-cost-in-federal-grants-management/)

[Fund Accounting What a Complete Nonprofit Agentic Finance System Could Look Like on an Ordinary Tuesday September 28, 2026| 6 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/complete-nonprofit-agentic-finance-system/) [Data Management The One Record Myth in K–12 School Software September 23, 2026| 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/the-one-record-myth-in-k-12-school-software/) [Budgeting Building a Culture of Effective Budgeting Practices September 21, 2026| 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/culture-of-effective-budgeting-practices/) [Financial Reporting From Payment Runs to Payment Intelligence: What’s Next for Nonprofit Finance August 24, 2026| 6 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/payment-runs-payment-intelligence-whats-next-nonprofit-finance/)

## Latest Posts

[Compliance Best Practices for Succession Planning in Nonprofit Finance Departments Here’s an uncomfortable fact: nonprofit turnover runs higher than anyone likes to admit, meaningfully higher than the private sector. If [...] October 21, 2026 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/succession-planning-for-nonprofit-finance-teams/)

[Financial Reporting 12 Top Financial Metrics Nonprofits Need to Know A growing revenue line does not always mean your nonprofit is financially healthy. Revenue may be concentrated in one grant, [...] October 15, 2026 | 11 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/nonprofit-financial-metrics/)

[Advocacy Tips for Election Planning as a Nonprofit part 3 in blog series about election planning [...] October 2, 2026 | 2 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/still-more-tips-election-planning/)

[Fund Accounting Is Your Accounting Software Holding Your Nonprofit Back? 7 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your accounting software may still open every morning. It may still record revenue, help you pay bills, and produce a [...] October 2, 2026 | 8 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/signs-you-need-nonprofit-accounting-system/)

[Event Planning 4 Event-Day Problems That Hurt Fundraising Results Every organization planning in-person fundraising events—whether it’s a multi-route bike ride, a 5K run/walk, an elegant luncheon, or a high-profile [...] October 1, 2026 | 6 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/event-day-problems-that-hurt-fundraising-results/)

[Change Management From Feature Overload to Fit for Purpose: Finding the Capabilities that Matter Most to Your Organization If you’ve sat through a finance system that only showed slide after slide of capabilities, somewhere around slide 40, you [...] October 1, 2026 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/nonprofit-fund-accounting-system-capabilities/)

## End-of-year preparation

[Giving Tuesday Building Resilience on GivingTuesday: Turning Momentum into Year-Round Impact November 12, 2025 | 2 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/resilience-givingtuesday-year-round-impact/) [End-of-Year Giving How You Can Use Social Media Ambassadors to Amplify Your Giving Day December 23, 2025 | 2 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/giving-day-social-media-ambassadors/) [End-of-Year Giving Is Your Payment Infrastructure Ready for GivingTuesday’s $3.6B Traffic Surge? October 22, 2025 | 3 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/payment-infrastructure-givingtuesday-traffic-surge/)

[End-of-Year Giving ![podcast icon](https://blog.blackbaud.com/wp-content/themes/sgengage/img/podcast-bbbluegreen.svg) The Final Mile: End-of-Year Fundraising As the year draws to a close, nonprofits and organizations everywhere are putting the finishing touches on their fundraising strategies. [...] December 23, 2025| < 1 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/podcast/end-of-year-fundraising-final-tips/)

## Featured Experts

#### Rachel DeMatteo, CPA

Director and NYC Market Leader at Your Part-Time Controller

[From Requirements to Relationships: Rethinking Grant Reporting to Strengthen Funder-Grantee Partnerships![right-arrow](https://blog.blackbaud.com/wp-content/themes/sgengage/img/arrow-right-bbdarkpurple.svg)](https://blog.blackbaud.com/rethinking-grant-reporting-strengthen-funder-grantee-partnerships/)

#### Laurene Currie

Responsible AI Research Scientist, Laureate

[How Real-World Experience Shapes Responsible AI at Blackbaud![right-arrow](https://blog.blackbaud.com/wp-content/themes/sgengage/img/arrow-right-bbdarkpurple.svg)](https://blog.blackbaud.com/how-real-world-experience-shapes-responsible-ai-at-blackbaud/)

#### Isa Hasty

Senior Manager of Content & Marketing Communications at Feathr

[How Often Are You Sending Bulk Emails?![right-arrow](https://blog.blackbaud.com/wp-content/themes/sgengage/img/arrow-right-bbdarkpurple.svg)](https://blog.blackbaud.com/how-often-are-you-sending-bulk-emails/)

## 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.
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[bbcon ![podcast icon](https://blog.blackbaud.com/wp-content/themes/sgengage/img/podcast-bbgreen.svg) Attendee to Advocate: What I Learned from bbcon with Wolf Conservation Center August 24, 2026 |17 min Listen](https://blog.blackbaud.com/podcast/bbcon-with-wolf-conservation-center/) [Responsible AI ![podcast icon](https://blog.blackbaud.com/wp-content/themes/sgengage/img/podcast-bbgreen.svg) Donor Perspectives on AI, Trust, and Transparency August 12, 2026 |12 min Listen](https://blog.blackbaud.com/podcast/donor-perspectives-on-ai-trust-and-transparency/) [Sector Trends ![podcast icon](https://blog.blackbaud.com/wp-content/themes/sgengage/img/podcast-bbgreen.svg) From Transactional Giving to True Partnership with CECP July 16, 2026 |27 min Listen](https://blog.blackbaud.com/podcast/csr-corporate-giving-partnerships/)

## Hidden Gems

[Crisis Management As a Disaster Unfolds, Fundraisers Can Do More Than Raise Money No question that cash is crucial in a catastrophe. But if you’re a fundraiser for a nonprofit organization or school [...] January 14, 2025 | 5 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/disaster-fundraisers-can-do-more-than-raise-money/)

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[Annual Giving AI Can Be Your Most Powerful Tool for Growing Midlevel Giving Midlevel donors don’t always get the love they deserve. This loyal and often overlooked segment of donors represents a significant [...] July 19, 2024 | 6 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/ai-can-be-your-most-powerful-tool-for-growing-midlevel-giving/)

[Giving Tuesday GivingTuesday Email Examples, Subject Lines, and Schedule for Sending No matter your cause, GivingTuesday is the biggest fundraising event of the year for nonprofits and schools. Planning ahead for [...] July 15, 2025 | 7 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/givingtuesday-email-examples-subject-lines-and-schedule/)

[Online Giving 8 Common Donation Page Mistakes (and Simple Solutions!) A poorly designed donation page will make you miss out on supporters' donations. Here are the 9 mistakes to avoid so that your page is optimized for giving. June 12, 2024 | 5 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/common-donation-page-mistakes/)

[Fund Accounting Don’t Make These Common Mistakes When Filing Your Form 990 Your tax-exempt status may keep you from having to file traditional tax returns, but maintaining the designation comes with its [...] February 1, 2025 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/dont-make-these-common-mistakes-when-filing-your-form-990/)

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[Digital Marketing How to Turn Annual Reports into Donor Engagement Tools For many nonprofits, annual reports are often treated as a retrospective exercise: an obligation to summarize the past year’s activities [...] June 11, 2026 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/turn-annual-reports-into-donor-engagement-tools/)

[Volunteer Management Ideas for Youth Volunteer Programs Are you looking for fresh ways to energize your nonprofit, attract new supporters, and ensure long-term organizational growth? Implementing youth [...] February 25, 2026 | 2 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/youth-volunteer-ideas/)

[Event Planning A Quick Event Checklist for First-Time Fundraisers Hosting your first fundraising event can feel overwhelming. You’re worried about everything from simple logistics, like finding a venue and [...] November 21, 2025 | 5 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/event-checklist-first-time-fundraisers/)

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[Change Management Signs Your Systems Are Broken (And You’ve Just Learned to Live with It) We all know that CFO. Sharp, experienced, good at their job, and the crown jewel of their department is a [...] May 26, 2026 | 3 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/signs-your-accounting-systems-are-broken/)

[Fund Accounting Best Practices for a Stress-Free Fund Accounting System Implementation You’re done with juggling multiple spreadsheets just to track your restricted funds. You’re finished with manual approval processes for expenses. [...] May 15, 2026 | 6 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/best-practices-for-a-stress-free-fund-accounting-system-implementation/)

[Manager Skills From Gatekeeper to Trusted Advisor: How Finance Becomes a Thought Leader Let’s be direct: the phrase “thought leader” is a little uncomfortable, especially for nonprofit finance people. It sounds like something [...] April 28, 2026 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/how-finance-becomes-thought-leader/)

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[Direct Marketing Phonathon Best Practices for More Confident Donor Outreach A phonathon gives fundraisers a way to connect donor outreach and engagement with fundraising calls in one coordinated campaign. Meaning, [...] June 15, 2026 | 3 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/phonathon-best-practices/)

[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, [...] May 14, 2026 | 5 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/prospective-student-active-alumni-engagement-fosters-lifelong-support/)

[Awards and Scholarships 5 Strategies to Strengthen Your Scholarship Process Is your scholarship process outdated, difficult for students to navigate, and a challenge for you to manage? These are common [...] June 5, 2025 | 3 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/how-to-strengthen-your-scholarship-process/)

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[Annual Giving Community-Building Through Student-Led Fundraisers The most successful school fundraisers go beyond simple student participation to deep student engagement, empowering active student leadership that results [...] May 1, 2026 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/community-building-through-student-led-fundraisers/)

[Change Management People-Powered, AI-Enabled: Effective K–12 Fundraising Development leaders at private and independent schools of all sizes are asking the same question: “As AI becomes embedded in [...] April 22, 2026 | 3 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/people-powered-ai-enabled-effective-k-12-fundraising/)

[Tuition and Financial Aid Improve Your Student Billing Process Are you struggling with an inefficient student billing process? You are not alone. Many educational institutions face the challenge of [...] April 1, 2026 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/improve-your-billing-process/)

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[Grants Strategy How to Scale Your Rapid Response Grants When crisis strikes, communities can’t wait months for funding. Rapid response grants bridge that gap by helping organizations act quickly [...] March 11, 2026 | 5 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/scale-rapid-response-grants/)

[Grantee Partnerships Bridging the Empathy Gap: Fueling Collaborative Impact in the Social Sector Most of us enter the social impact space with a fervent desire to change the world. We meticulously build solutions, [...] September 2, 2025 | 6 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/bridging-empathy-gap-fueling-collaborative-impact-social-sector/)

[Data Insights How Grantmakers Can (and Should) Get Started with Research Now is an important time for small and mid-sized foundations to engage in research activities. Institutional foundations are fighting to [...] June 17, 2025 | 6 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/how-grantmakers-can-get-started-with-research/)

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[Board Management 5 Core Essentials for High-Impact Board Orientation The board of directors is arguably one of the most important parts of any nonprofit organization. After all, they serve [...] April 30, 2026 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/board-orientation-essentials/)

[Community Engagement How to Offer More Enticing Volunteering Opportunities When you find that your nonprofit’s volunteer opportunities are no longer drawing the interest they used to, it’s time to [...] April 15, 2026 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/offer-more-enticing-volunteering-opportunities/)

[Crisis Management How Savvy Organizations Weather Uncertain Times Preparing for the unknown is a tenant of leadership in today’s ever-changing economic, political, and cultural landscape—and those who know [...] June 11, 2025 | 4 min Read](https://blog.blackbaud.com/how-savvy-organizations-weather-uncertain-times/)

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