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How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

Blackbaud

This post was originally published October 2016 and updated January 2025. Operating reserves are a crucial part of a healthy financial statement, and there are several ways to calculate, hold, and manage those funds. Consult your auditor and CPA to identify the options that work best for your organization.

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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 One of every 10 employees works for a nonprofit organization. while for-profit employment grew by 4.6%.

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Collaboration—Love it or Hate it?

Grant Professionals Association

Or my favorite—when one organization has a NICRA (Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement) of 47% while the other three organizations use the 10% de minimus rate, and this causes a stir. I’ve even negotiated that none of us ask for Indirect Costs so all the money goes directly to the program! So, what have I done in these situations?