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BDO Nonprofit & Grantmaker Advisory

BDO Nonprofit & Grantmaker Advisory

 

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First Name
BDO
Last Name
Nonprofit & Grantmaker Advisory
Organization
BDO Nonprofit & Grantmaker Advisory
Address Line 1
330 N Wabash Ave
City
Chicago
County
Cook
State/Province
IL
Zip Code
60603
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Organization Overview
BDO provides experienced financial management services and skilled capacity-building technical assistance, including organizational consultation and training, using an approach tailored to individual organizations and their specific needs. Our Nonprofit & Grantmaker Advisory practice exclusively serves nonprofit organizations and funders, empowering them to effectively manage their resources, improve operations, and position themselves for stable, long-term growth.
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Services
The following is an outline of services that BDO can provide:
* Accounting System Implementation: Designing, installing, and training on the most widely used accounting software programs available for nonprofit organizations.
* Fiscal Infrastructure Assessment: Assistance with developing the internal fiscal staffing, systems, and processes to support the financial complexity of your programs and operations.
* Financial Advisory Services: Support to your organization’s leaders in understanding and making decisions on critical financial issues, including business modeling, budgeting, cash management, creating dashboards, and strategic planning.
*HR Consulting: Help with minimizing risk by ensuring policies, documents and practices are compliant with government regulations, create efficiencies by implementing best practices through available technology, and achieve excellence by hiring and retaining top quality fiscal staff.
* Internal Controls Consulting: Assistance with defining staff roles and responsibilities to ensure internal controls that protect your organization’s resources and meet contemporary auditing standards. We can also work with you to document this control structure in a customized fiscal policies and procedures manual.
* Nonprofit Finance Training: In addition to delivering customized training for individual organizations or groups of organizations, BDO is a leading provider of the two-part, nationally-recognized CNAP (Certified Nonprofit Accounting Professional) certification program.
* Outsourced Fiscal Management Services: Management of the full range of your organization’s accounting and financial management tasks on an outsourced basis, including providing support for the annual financial audit.
* Transition Services: Our dedicated transition advisory team works with you to find the right way forward as you improve or restructure your organization’s fiscal operations, providing
day-to-day financial management support and guidance with assessment, planning, and/or implementation of new systems or processes to establish operational excellence.
Practice Areas (select top 3)
  • Board Support (Development, Governance, Retreats, Training)
  • Capacity Building
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Data Analytics
  • Executive Coaching
  • Finance and Accounting (including Banking and Financial Modeling)
  • Human Resources (Including Recruitment/Training, Benefits, HR Tech)
  • Information Systems (Including Software, Database Support, Data Analytics)
  • Interim Leadership
  • Leadership and Professional Development
  • Organizational Development
Testimonial 1
Thank you!!! The BDO consultants were kind, gracious, wise, supportive, clarifying, and prescriptive. I loved working with them and they transformed my year.
Testimonial 2
We benefited tremendously from BDO's expertise and wealth of knowledge, tools, recommendations, connections. Being able to ask all sorts of questions and discuss strategy was super helpful to our team/organization.
 Linked members (5)
Name Email Phone
Gillian Gorra, BDO FMA
ggorra@bdo.com
2129319144
Gretchen Upholt, BDO Nonprofit and Grantmaker Advisory
gupholt@bdo.com
3127801376
Kate Piatt-Eckert, BDO Nonprofit & Grantmaker Advisory
kpiatt-eckert@bdo.com
312-616-4693
Melissa Cameron, BDO Nonprofit & Grantmaker Advisory
mcameron@bdo.com
Sarah Walker, BDO FMA
swalker@bdo.com
3127801369

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