The MoneyMinder Blog
Insights and strategies for volunteer and nonprofit treasurers

Try This Simple Budgeting Process for Your Nonprofit Organization
Does your nonprofit need to budget? Yes, and here’s why. The budget provides a framework for organizational decision-making. Developing a budget helps your board make choices between projects. Using it helps to maintain focus on what’s most important to your group. They help set expectations for an organization, tell us what we expect to achieve,…

Happy 17th Anniversary to Us! A Look Back at Our First Year…
I can’t believe we’re celebrating our 17th anniversary in business this week. It seems like just yesterday my partner Donna and I set up our office in an old boat warehouse. Here are some other fun facts and memories from our first year in business. According to Wikipedia, web based software didn’t begin until the…

Quarantine Coffee Chat [Video]: Tools for Keeping Your Group Moving Forward
How has your nonprofit group been impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent distancing measures? We’ve been getting a lot of phone calls, chats and emails with questions from our customers, and we thought we’d address some of them here. Tools for Keeping Your Nonprofit Group Moving Forward While some groups may have come to…

The Ultimate List of COVID-19 School Closure Activities for Kids
Just when we thought we were rounding the corner and heading for Summer, a new type of school break has been imposed on much of the country. School closures due to COVID-19 (more commonly called Coronavirus) are being announced state-to-state every day. This comes alongside a long list of dining, retail, business and government closures…