Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Let’s face it—budget planning can cause a lot of stress and anxiety for nonprofits. Most organizations face frequent budget cuts, which creates organizational uncertainty and a scramble for new funding options. Calculating indirect costs can be challenging. Do we have the funds this year to maintain our programs?

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Finance Budget Indirect Cost Indirect 97

Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

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.

Contracts 70

Contracts Contract Budget Nonprofit 70

Planned Giving

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Viken Mikaelian is the CEO of PlannedGiving.com and Publisher of Giving Tomorrow Magazine. I’ve surveyed thousands of industry leaders, and their answers are always the same: lack of time and lack of budget. He was widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals. Competition can come from indirect and unexpected sources.

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Indirect Pass-Through Publishing Demographics 111

Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

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. Respondents were asked, "How did you reduce your indirect/administrative costs?"

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Grantstation Indirect Grants Grant 47

Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.

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Indirect Cost Contracts Contract Indirect 66

Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Every day, cultural and nonprofit institutions face unique challenges while working towards a mission with a small technical staff and digital budget. They receive ongoing budget priority and dedicated resources. This blog post was originally published on Elevated Third's blog. Think in Terms of Conversions. Image: TechSoup.

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Indirect Software Management Budget 69

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One of the requirements of the bill is that evaluation criteria (weve often written about evaluations ) be published in the RFP, although many federal grant-making agencies already do so. The GREAT Act requires that federal grant recipients establish and use data standards for information reported to funding agencies.

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Federal Grants Indirect Cost Grants Grant 40