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What You’re Actually Getting When Your Nonprofit ERP Runs on Microsoft’s Infrastructure 

In short: Nonprofits are the second most targeted sector by cybercriminals, and most have little to no dedicated IT or cybersecurity budget. An ERP built directly on Microsoft Dynamics 365…

Where AI Actually Helps in Nonprofit Finance Right Now (and Where It’s Still Hype) 

In short: Finance leaders are right to be skeptical of AI claims — a recent survey found 87% of finance professionals need to tie AI spending to results within a…

Fund Accounting vs. For-Profit Accounting: Why Your ERP Needs to Think Differently About Revenue 

In short: For-profit accounting answers “how much did we make?” Nonprofit accounting answers “did we spend this the way we told donors and funders we would?” That difference is codified…

Credit Card Reconciliation Shouldn’t Eat Your Week 

In short: When a room full of nonprofit finance leaders was polled on their most painful manual process, credit card reconciliation won without much competition. The real problem isn’t accounting,…

Why “We’ll Just Email the Invoice to Finance” Is a Bigger Risk Than You Think 

In short: An emailed invoice with “approved, please pay” typed above it feels like documentation, but it isn’t a control — nobody’s actually matching it against a purchase order or…

Group Homes, Grocery POs, and the Power of Granular Cost Data

In short: Standard nonprofit financial reports show totals — by department, by program, by month — which is exactly the level of aggregation that hides what’s actually happening on the…

A $30,000 Roof and the Case for Real-Time Financial Visibility 

In short: Nonprofit finance leaders often can’t tell whether real-time financial visibility matters when funding is already locked into multi-year government agreements. It does — because the pressure isn’t the…

Build, Buy, or Bolt-On? What to Look for When Evaluating a Nonprofit-Specific ERP 

In short: Nonprofits leaving Dynamics GP (mainstream support ends December 2029) or outgrowing QuickBooks face the same underlying choice, whether they realize it or not: build custom software, buy a…

Too Many Logins, Not Enough Time: The Employee Experience Nobody Talks About 

In short: Disability care organizations usually blame turnover on wages and unpredictable shifts. Underneath that is a systems problem: when self-service portals require frontline workers to log into multiple disconnected…