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Navigating the Nonprofit Polycrisis: A Framework for Clarity and Focus in 2025

Nonprofit leaders are navigating overlapping crises in funding, demand, workforce, and compliance. This framework offers practical tools to bring clarity, focus, and control to an increasingly complex landscape.

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Beyond the Breaking Point: What America's Nonprofits Tell Us About Shared Responsibility

America’s nonprofits are stretched to their limits. The latest data shows how rising costs, shrinking support, and surging demand are reshaping the nation’s social safety net and what must change to sustain it.

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Why Funders Should Embrace Fiscally Sponsored Projects to Drive Greater Impact

With smarter tools and a maturing model, there’s never been a better time for funders to act.

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Cost Recovery for Fiscal Sponsors: Moving Beyond Guesswork

Most fiscal sponsors undercharge for their services. Here's how to calculate true costs, structure sustainable fees, and have honest conversations with sponsored projects about pricing.

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How Fiscal Sponsors Can Avoid Common IRS Compliance Pitfalls

Fiscal sponsors play a vital role in supporting new missions, but they also carry heavy compliance responsibilities. The most common pitfalls include co-mingling funds, issuing improper receipts, misusing restricted funds, poor documentation, and late IRS reporting. These mistakes can trigger penalties, audits, and loss of donor trust.

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Solving The Pain Of Nonprofit Finance… But How?

Nonprofits struggle with financial chaos. Tracking donations, grants, and compliance across disconnected systems. Mazlo solves this by turning every transaction into a compliant, auditable workflow with built-in automation for accounting, donation letters, and reporting. The platform simplifies what used to take hours of manual work into a seamless process, reducing admin burdens and unlocking growth.

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Meet Mazlo: Solving The Pain of Nonprofit Finance

Mazlo has raised a total of $4.6M from Westbound Equity Partners, super{set}, Social Good Fund, a16z, Charles Oppenheimer, along with friends, family, and advisors, to build a compliance-driven banking platform specifically for nonprofit finance. It launches with 60 organizations, totaling 1,600 users, in 47 states.

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Mazlo at NNFS

Mazlo was honored to join NNFS, engaging with fiscal sponsors, showcasing innovative financial tools, and driving conversations on the future of nonprofit finance.

Fundraising

How to Enhance Donor Engagement

A strategic fundraising system is essential for nonprofit success. The Donor Operations Framework (DonorOps) helps organizations understand why donors care, how they engage, and what donor success looks like, driving key performance metrics like retention, acquisition, and revenue.