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How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

Blackbaud

Find the Right Number for Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) Workgroup suggests that the minimum operating reserve ratio at the lowest point during the year should be 25 percent, or about three months of the annual operating expense budget. However, this is not a universal benchmark.

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Is There Any Grant Money?

Tech Soup

The grantseeking challenge of organizational lack of time and staff relates to indirect and administrative cost control techniques; almost two-thirds of our respondents (65 percent) reported reducing staff in order to control overhead. In comparison, in the fall 2016 report, the entry point was $1 million. This can be difficult to do.

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Debunking Myths About Nonprofits – Let’s Make Sure to Get the Facts

GrantNews

From 2007-2016, nonprofit employment grew by 16.7% Reality: According to the John Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies an data from the Bureau of Statistics, in 2016, nonprofits employed 12.3 Funding supports libraries with little access to budget assistance. One of every 10 employees works for a nonprofit organization.

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Collaboration—Love it or Hate it?

Grant Professionals Association

When I’m trying to balance a Logic Model, Work Plan, twelve attachments, budget narrative, project abstract, and a thirty-page narrative, the last thing I need are twenty-minute debates about “how come they are getting more than we are?” I’ve even negotiated that none of us ask for Indirect Costs so all the money goes directly to the program!