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Your Cheat Sheet to Better Grant Budgeting & Financial Reporting

AmpliFund

In our recent webinar, I detailed ways to improve grant budgeting and ease financial reporting. Key considerations for your budget planning process: Strong financial planning in the early grant stages sets the stage for successful program implementation and reporting.

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Key takeaways from Candid’s 2021 Nonprofit Compensation Report

Candid

This year’s report found that most of the trends observed in 2018 continued in 2019, including steady growth in median executive compensation. Median compensation for CEOs decreased for all but the highest and lowest budget bands from 2018 to 2019. The pay gap is narrower for organizations with a smaller budget size.

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Is the Diminishing Number of Donors an Issue for Fundraisers?

Penelope Burk

There’s some buzz around the decline in the number of American households who give to charity, or at least the number who gave in 2018, which is the year that was studied. That leaves fundraisers stealing from the budget that should be devoted to holding onto the donors they already have. No, because they have bigger fish to fry.

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Stormy to Calm: Thoughts on Navigating the Federal Grant-Writing Waters After NLFGT

Grant Professionals Association

Aided by Kessler and Cassidys Writing to Win Federal Grants and Writing to Win Federal Grants: The Workbook, participants are guided through the entire federal grant writing process, including developing needs statements, crafting budget narratives, building partnerships, and navigating the submissions process.

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. If your organization’s annual budget is less than $1 million, make the tone of your mission statement as positive as possible. We also downloaded their IRS Form 990s?from

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The overhead myth: crash course to fundraising transparency

Candid

Overhead ratio essentially refers to the amount of a nonprofit’s budget that’s dedicated to overhead costs (i.e. Work with a nonprofit accountant to create an ironclad budget and stick to it. What is the overhead myth? To define the overhead myth, we first need to define the term “overhead ratio.” .

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Which Fundraising Events Bring in the Most Money for Small Nonprofits?

Get Fully Funded

You don’t want to spend more than you raise, and poor planning can turn an event into a budget buster that wastes your most precious resource – time and volunteers. Tupperware parties, garage sales, and candle fundraisers will not sustain your budget. The RIGHT event: Raises 10-20% of your annual budget. BUT the flip side?