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Nonprofit Operations Revenue 
Alison Green
APRIL 2, 2025
A reader writes: I’ve been doing some remote volunteer grant writing as part of a long-term plan to break out of my current job family (also nonprofit-centric). The nonprofit Im currently working with is only a few years old, in another state, and very small, with no paid staff. Me : I have the revenue/expenses spreadsheet.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
MAY 14, 2015
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you. Thanks to the book publisher for sending me a copy of the book.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2017
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2020
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
AUGUST 4, 2018
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
MAY 7, 2019
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2019
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you.
40 Eric Jacobsen Blog
JANUARY 28, 2016
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
MARCH 6, 2017
If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni is a must-read for you.
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Peter Winick
JANUARY 27, 2023
Book sales really are not the not the deal Like, yes, it’s nicer to sell more than less, but the revenue isn’t the point. Kind of know what you think and how you operate. I wrote my book for authors, for leaders of nonprofit causes, or for anyone who wants to build leadership, thought, leadership. And then in 2023.
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Association Now Leadership
JANUARY 8, 2023
Because businesses have to dedicate more time to filling vacancies and training up new workers, operations are slower. Overall productivity dips, and revenue declines aren’t far behind. That trend is happening in the nonprofit sector as well.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
JULY 4, 2015
My two passions are leadership and running 5K races that benefit nonprofit organizations. So much of what I've learned about how to best communicate with race participants is by observing the well-organized races operated by KC Running Company , the largest race event management and timing company in the Kansas City metro.
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Peter Winick
MARCH 9, 2023
Our guest today is Jeremy Madsen, Operations Manager for BK Authors an author group affiliated with the award–winning publisher Berrett-Koehler. Because what I find the inherent disconnect from an industry standpoint is at the end of the day, any publisher only generates revenue by number of units sold by some sort of profit margin per book.
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Zenefits
DECEMBER 22, 2022
But non-profits also operate on state, regional, and national scales, so don’t limit yourself only to what’s locally available. For example, LegalCORPS is a Minnesota non-profit that provides free legal assistance to “low-income entrepreneurs and innovators and small nonprofits in Minnesota.” The Internal Revenue Service.
Zenefits
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
value of the commercial property , the business’s current revenue and debt, the creditworthiness of the business and the business owner, and/or the size of the down payment. is a loan based on future revenue. They can be used to buy inventory and equipment and to pay for daily operating expenses. Merchant cash advances .
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Andrew Chen
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Thus the order of operations, at least for most consumer-facing marketplaces, is “supply, demand, supply, supply, supply.” This came up in many brainstorms at Sidecar, but the question was always, what was the regulatory framework that allows this to operate? Once that’s working though, it becomes all about supply again.
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Zenefits
JUNE 9, 2023
Some PEOs choose to be certified by the Internal Revenue Service, which entitles them to be called certified professional employer organizations, or CPEOs. They can also apply to be accredited by the Employer Services Assurance Corporation (ESAC), a nonprofit accrediting and financial assurance organization.
Vantage Circle
MAY 29, 2023
Creating a sustainable workplace can attract and retain top talent, reduce operating costs, and improve your brand image. These metrics are indicators used to assess the performance and potential risks of a business's operations concerning environmental, social, and governance issues. It is often measured on certain ESG metrics.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 6, 2012
If the economy continues to falter, we will see more corporations supporting NGOs and nonprofits via employee volunteer programs, rather than just writing checks. in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson). Employee Engagement: There will be a continued growth in employee-engagement programs.
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Monday Task Management
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Financial information: Historical revenue, expense data, and financial projections. As you dig into available data, you gain a deeper understanding of your customers, operations, competitors, and the market itself. Market analysis: Data about your industry and target audience, trends, opportunities, and competitors.
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Chris LoCutro
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Whether you’re launching a new product, considering a team change, or evaluating an operational shift, understanding how to balance risk and reward is key to moving your business forward with confidence. What about operational risks? Plus, I share practical insights on how to analyze costs, timelines, and market fit.
52 Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
To meet the demands of the challenging years ahead, the nonprofit sector will need to change in dramatic ways. The politics of the process were fascinating and underscored the very different cultures of the nonprofit and the for-profit worlds. Our revenues increased from $16 million in 2007 to $42 million in 2012.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2014
Should a new social good organization choose a for-profit model or a nonprofit one? Whether your organization is a for-profit or nonprofit doesn’t typically affect your ability to sell products. nonprofits may sell products (Girl Scout cookies!) Many nonprofit social entrepreneurs earn a good living.
13 Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting initiatives. Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 4, 2016
Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money. And the initial funding can create revenue streams in perpetuity. So there was no conceivable way to create a new sustaining revenue stream for the program.
14 Harvard Business Review
JUNE 7, 2018
Far too many great ideas for solving pressing social problems are not being applied at the scale they deserve, because thousands of nonprofit organizations are teetering on the brink of collapse. Fundraising is by far the biggest challenge for the sector, even for the most successful organizations.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 25, 2011
There is a tacit vested interest among public, private and nonprofit capital providers in the status quo. Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2016
Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. These range from uncertain revenues to disagreements over guarantees to concerns about political risk.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 3, 2011
Instead of directing the money to specific causes, Buffett could have revolutionized the system, or the context within which the causes he cares about have to operate. This new movement would find the best programs and fund the fundraising operations that can multiply the money available for programs. Charitable giving in the U.S.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
And even if you can't come to an innovative solution, for-profit organizations can help nonprofits directly — beyond your run-of-the-mill corporate social responsibility programs. Each agency operates our stores that collect donated goods and uses the revenues to fund job-training and placement programs in their communities.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2018
Agricultural cooperatives Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray have become major players in dairy production and fruit farming, earning hundreds of millions in annual revenue. These companies are not just small groups of artisans or craft workers. Gore and Associates, are leaders in their industries. Already, U.S.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2013
But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 29, 2013
One Acre Fund (a nonprofit where Matthew is on the board and Stephanie on the staff) serves 135,000 of the poorest smallholder farmers in East Africa, on average doubling the profits they generate from farming. After seven years of operations, we are covering 85 percent of our field operating costs through farmer loan revenue.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Determining what operational changes to make is difficult and often accomplished through trial and error. Some 200 department managers now have a standard dashboard.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 21, 2013
If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. The assumption is that company growth is good. I'm not sure either frame is right.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2011
The Nonprofit Overhead Cost Project at Indiana University reported that, of 126,956 tax forms they studied, half of the organizations reported a hard-to-believe 0% fundraising cost, and one-quarter of charities with revenues between $1 million and $5 million reported a 0% fundraising cost. This practice is widespread.
15 Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2016
Organizations, whether businesses or nonprofits, almost universally pursue growth. They lead you to new revenues — at first — but the end results are often counterproductive. Thirty percent said that growth was more important than anything else. But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive. What do they offer us?
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Peter Winick
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Peter Winick So talk to us a little bit about your journey as a thought leader, right, Because you’ve gone from executive, nonprofit, building movements, author, speaker, how does it all how is it all tied together for you? As you mentioned, I started a nonprofit to help kids become first generation college students.
281 Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
For example, if you are planning to add new sites, you'll probably need to develop a cadre of site directors, and possibly a vice president for field operations. We heard comments from nonprofit leaders like: "In order to lead, you need time to lead," and "[We have] inadequate financial resources to cover training and development costs.".
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2010
The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business. Day says, "we have been able to use the best of our Nike DNA, but have the freedom to operate as an independent force for change in the development sector.
15 Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2015
In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Businesses run by UEs generated $6 billion in annual revenue and employed 225,000 people. operations.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
This means that to a significant degree historic areas of revenue generation will become generators of losses. While it’s common in most for-profit and nonprofit businesses for centers of revenue generation to fluctuate in their productivity, a shift of this scale represents a sea change for the health care sector that it must face head-on.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2013
Fielding calls from donors with ideas is nothing new, but truly listening—even when their ideas challenge the status quo—is a paradigm shift in how nonprofit executives engage with their donors. Rather than wait to see the end result of our approach, they want to collaborate from the very beginning.
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