Inside Out Fundraising

whitePaper | January 14, 2020

Nonprofit organizations operate in a complex and evolving financial world. As one of the world’s largest investment managers, Vanguard has helped thousands of nonprofit organizations navigate their unique investing, organizational, and governance challenges. We recognize nonprofits differ by size, served market, and sophistication. The chief financial officer of a hospital will likely have different needs from the CFO at a college, while the executive director of a small public charity will have different needs from either

whitePaper | October 2, 2021

Disaster planning isn’t fun or exciting and it doesn’t directly help the people we aim to serve. However, it is essential for nonprofit organizations who want to remain resilient in the face of the unforeseen. Nonprofits provide a wide variety of services ranging from travel and leisure to educational and informational to health and direct services that may be crucial to their clients’ survival. Nonprofits provide essential services, and need to be prepared for the emergencies that may impact their operations or their ability to serve and fulfill their missions.

whitePaper | February 26, 2020

Big promises are being made about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it will impact our lives. Experts say AI is slowly “edging” its way into daily life, but tectonic changes in transportation, the workplace, and lifestyle have yet to pass. So, when will AI truly “arrive”? In some areas, it already has. One such area generating substantial value is, perhaps surprisingly, the nonprofit space. While nonprofits aren’t historically at the forefront of technological advancement, this sector is quietly becoming an early adopter of AI.

whitePaper | December 10, 2019

Ask most board members if they were told they’d be responsible for fundraising when they joined the board and you’ll hear a lot of no’s. Somewhere in the recruitment process, the fundraising part of their job got downplayed. Maybe it wasn’t you, maybe it was a board member who let them off the hook.

whitePaper | April 4, 2022

According to one report, 11% of nonprofit organizations say they handle digital resources effectively. In addition, only 20% of nonprofits believe they lead the tech adoption drive. Most nonprofit organizations don’t compete with profit-making companies. However, it doesn’t mean nonprofits don’t require progressive IT services. The right technology solutions can help nonprofits reach and surpass their goals.

whitePaper | July 16, 2022

For many years, the charity watchdogs contributed to the myth that nonprofits should be spending 0% of their funding on professional staffing and operations. Nonprofit sector observers and researchers ultimately coined a name for this counterproductive level of frugality: the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle.2,3 In a nutshell, when an organization’s infrastructure is not funded or “fed” to the degree necessary for it to thrive, it cannot accomplish the work it was founded to do, and it chronically underperforms. The nonprofit itself is actually starving.