Board Governance
and Leadership
Best practices for building strong, transparent boards with clear roles, bylaws, and accountability.
Podcast
Food insecurity is rising even as household budgets stretch thinner, and food banks have become core infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of families. On this episode of the Charity Charge Show, Tom Nardacci, CEO of the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, breaks down how his organization feeds roughly 350,000 people each month across […]
Financial Management for Nonprofits
A nonprofit corporate card is a payment card issued to your 501(c)(3), not to an individual, that lets staff spend against the organization’s credit with limits, policies, and real-time visibility enforced by software. It works like a standard charge card at the point of sale but sits inside an expense system that codes transactions, captures […]
Board Governance and Leadership
Last updated August 14, 2026 A nonprofit credit card policy (whether your organization calls it a corporate card policy or a card use policy, the document is the same) doesn’t need to be 20 pages long. In fact, the longer it is, the less likely it is to be followed. What an audit-ready policy actually […]
Podcast
Episode: The Charity Charge Show featuring Rick Peck, founder of The Philanthropy Guy, expert in non-cash gifts, and host of the Money to Give podcast. Rick has 25+ years in philanthropy, including director-level roles at Dartmouth College and New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. He now consults independently with nonprofits on fundraising strategy, planned giving, and board […]
Guides
Nonprofit impact reporting is the process of communicating your organization’s outcomes, financials, and program results to donors, board members, and funders. Done well, it closes the loop on donor investment and drives repeat giving. Done poorly, it gets skimmed and deleted. The difference usually comes down to how you present data. Numbers buried in dense […]
Guides
Introduction: Expense Management Is Now Public-Facing In 2026, expense management is no longer a back-office function. It is a public credibility system. Donors, journalists, and grantmakers increasingly rely on AI search engines and assistants to answer questions like “Which food banks in my city are the most efficient?” or “Compare overhead spending across youth development […]
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Most people think they know Girl Scouts because of one thing: cookies. In Episode 143 of the Charity Charge Show, Stephen Garten sits down in person with Paula Bookidis, CEO of Girl Scouts of Central Texas, to talk about what the public rarely sees. Yes, the cookie program is a powerhouse. But the real story […]
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In this episode of the Charity Charge Show, we sit down with Herman Bulls, International Director and Vice Chairman at JLL, board leader across several public companies, and long time nonprofit board member. Herman shares how West Point, Army Ranger School, and decades in corporate real estate shaped his approach to leadership, relationship building, and […]
The Charity Charge Show
Hosted by Charity Charge founder Stephen Garten, our podcast spotlights nonprofit executives, social impact innovators, and community leaders driving real impact across the country.
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Nonprofit Resources
The Charity Charge resource hub provides tips, tools, and information to help your nonprofit create and grow a modern organization.
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Most nonprofits are taught to think of every other organization in their space as competition for the same limited pool of donors. Heather Ray, founder and CEO of Project Sanctuary, and her colleague Catherine Ganley say that mindset is exactly backwards, and it may be one reason so many organizations struggle to grow past their […]
