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From Vision to Impact: The Story of Social Good Fund with Michael Pace

Social Good Fund founder Michael Pace shares what it really takes to start & scale a fiscal sponsorship program: the right team, technology as leverage, and protecting yourself from burnout.

Fiscal Sponsorship

C is for Compliant: How Mazlo Brings Certainty to Model C Grant Disbursements

Under a Model C fiscal sponsorship, sponsors do real due diligence before approving a grantee, but that vetting only matters if every disbursement actually goes to the approved recipient. Mazlo's newest feature closes that gap by locking each Model C account's spend requests to a single sponsor-designated contact.

Nonprofit Finance

Why Your Nonprofit’s Budget-to-Actual Report Is Already Too Late

If it takes weeks to know your budget-to-actuals, your decisions are already kneecapped. How to shift from retroactive archaeology to real-time navigation.

Nonprofit Leadership

Dangerous Nonprofit Leaders: Why the Best Ones Can’t Be Bought, Bored, or Broken

Organizations aren’t resilient — people are. The best nonprofit leaders share a pattern: they broke once, rebuilt, and can’t be bought, bored, or broken.

Compliance and Risk

Why the Nonprofit Sector Has Amnesia — and How to Build Shared Memory

Nonprofits lose billions to the same preventable fraud yearly — not from dishonesty, but because the sector has no shared memory. Here’s what blocks learning.

Philanthropy

Boomers Built Modern Philanthropy. Now They Need to Help Fix It.

One generation scaled and professionalized modern philanthropy, then left layers that never got closed. A call for the people who built the system to fix it.

Nonprofit Leadership

How to Diagnose Your Nonprofit’s Health in a Single Day: A Leadership Playbook

A leadership playbook for reading an organization’s real health in a single day — who to talk to, what to ask, and the specific signals worth listening for.

Nonprofit Finance

Fund Accounting Explained: Restricted vs. Unrestricted Funds and the Story Every Dollar Tells

Fund accounting traces every dollar from the donor’s hand to the beneficiary. How restricted and unrestricted funds actually work, and why the distinction matters.

Fundraising

How to Push Through a Shaky Funding Environment: Donors, Grants, and Mindset

Funding wobbles are not new, and they are survivable. A practical guide to donors, grants, and mindset when a reliable funder shifts strategy overnight.