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Opx360’s Fundraising, Marketing & Communications Assessment: Insight for Strategic Engagement and Growth

The OpX360 Fundraising, Marketing & Communications module from The Capin Center for Nonprofit Excellence offers a free, easy-to-use assessment to help your nonprofit evaluate your communications and technology, marketing and branding, objectives and outcomes, and more. It also provides an assessment score you can share with your board members and potential funders. Assessment Breakdown Each … Continue Reading

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New Guide Offers In-Depth Accounting and Financial Reporting Insight

The Capin Center for Nonprofit Excellence was founded to help nonprofit organizations understand and apply operational best practices so they can be good stewards of the resources entrusted to them. That’s why we are proud to co-sponsor the new Accounting and Financial Reporting Guide for Churches and Ministries published by the Accounting Committee for Churches … Continue Reading

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2025 Key Federal Tax Figures

CapinCrouse’s 2025 Key Tax Figures summary offers valuable tax information for use throughout the year. Designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, this annual summary covers key tax figures related to: Using accurate tax figures is crucial for effective financial planning and budgeting to ensure that your nonprofit maximizes tax benefits and remains compliant with IRS requirements. … Continue Reading

Businesses Need Nonprofits as Much as Nonprofits Need Businesses

Why Do Businesses Need Nonprofits? Not long along, only a few enlightened businesses actively promoted social issues as part of their marketing and branding. Today, corporate philanthropy and corporate social responsibility are integral parts of almost every serious business plan.  Corporate philanthropy used to primarily take the form of a financial contribution and to a … Continue Reading

How Your Nonprofit Can Increase Donations by Ignoring Competitive Impulses and Increasing Your Organizational Trustworthiness

Is there competition between nonprofits? Probably, even if it is not head-to-head competition.  Here’s why: In short, more nonprofits are seeking funds, less money is being donated, and fewer major donors are redistributing the same amounts of money. The Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University reported that 20 million fewer households gave in … Continue Reading

The Good News Is Your Nonprofit Achieved 100% Accuracy on Your Reporting. The Bad News Is You Have Been Measuring the Wrong Things.

Business leader and philanthropist Bill Gates said, “I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.” Thought provoking, isn’t it? I wonder what questions the founder of the largest software company and largest private foundation in the world would ask your nonprofit (or the one you fund)? … Continue Reading

What Gets Measured in All Six Areas of Nonprofit Operations Ultimately Determines What Gets Accomplished and How Much Funding You Receive

All nonprofits want to operate effectively and efficiently. Most do not. According to the Harvard Business Review, 94% of all managers assume that they are operating above operational competency. They are not.  Given its systemic nature, this must be an extremely difficult problem to solve. It is not. What Gets Measured Gets Managed The complete … Continue Reading