Financial Management for Nonprofit Organizations

This cash management and investment handbook for nonprofit managers helps managers from diverse backgrounds learn to manage their organization's money. It examines traditional treasury functions including banking and cash flow and explores investment management and strategies for managing excess cash, endowment, and long-term (planned) gifts. It also examines financial management strategies that impact cash flow, including borrowing, risk management, benchmarking, and long-term planning. Addresses the needs of all types and sizes of organizations, from small religious groups and community social service agencies to major cultural institutions and colleges and universities. Includes a diskette with spreadsheet solutions to common financial management problems, such as interest rate calculations, basic yield calculations, financial rations and more.

JO ANN HANKIN is a nationally recognized consultant in the field of fundraising, and financial/administrative management for nonprofits.

ALAN SEIDNER was the founder of Seidner & Company of Pasadena, California, an investment management and consulting firm. He is currently a Senior Consultant for Client Development with the Pyatt Broadmark Real Estate Lending Funds.

JOHN T. ZIETLOW, D.B.A., CTP, is a professor of finance at Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO, and he also teaches graduate nonprofit financial management at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Indiana University, Bloomington.