Boards & governance
Most boards can’t read the reports they’re legally responsible for.
It’s not a literacy problem — the reports were never built to be understood. What a board actually needs to see, and a simpler way to see it.
Insights
Plain-English writing and videos on the questions nonprofit leaders actually ask — no jargon, no lectures.
Boards & governance
It’s not a literacy problem — the reports were never built to be understood. What a board actually needs to see, and a simpler way to see it.
Restricted funds
Why real nonprofit accounting costs more than $30 an hour — and why the difference is usually invisible until an audit or a cash crunch makes it expensive.
Fiscal sponsorship
If your organization holds other projects under its umbrella, there are rules your bookkeeper is probably getting wrong — and the error stays buried until it counts.
The four levels
The chef is rarely the restaurant manager. The four levels of financial work, and why hiring from either end leaves the same gap in the middle.
Articles and videos are being moved over from Jim’s archive — talks, three-minute explainers, and written pieces land here first. The plain-English newsletter below gets them by email.
Thirty minutes, no pitch. You’ll leave with a clearer read either way.
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