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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?

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Philanthropy Officers and Grant Professionals

Grant Professionals Association

What you do as a successful individual giving officer is, sit in front of a blinking cursor and a screen full of empty boxes that ask for outcome metrics. There are attachment upload buttons for unasked-for resumes, not-yet-created project budgets, and audits that must live somewhere.

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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too

Blackbaud

Many don’t cover operating costs or have a small allotment for indirect costs such as salaries, insurance, and utilities. Not only does this help you budget and forecast better, but this information also makes creating annual reports and website updates easier. Restricted funds often outline what they will fund and what they won’t.

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7 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Build a Strong Financial Foundation in 2024

Blackbaud

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. Lead a Revenue-Wise Strategy Session As a financial leader, you touch all areas of your nonprofit organization through budgeting, forecasting, and expense management. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful.

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Fundraising With a Positive Return: 3 Accounting Practices

The Fundraising Coach

Create a Detailed Campaign Budget Your organization creates an annual budget to help determine your overarching financial health and goals. Create a Detailed Campaign Budget Your organization creates an annual budget to help determine your overarching financial health and goals. Are within your predetermined budget.

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Accounting: Data Behind Functional Expense Reporting

The NonProfit Times

Square footage percentages can be used to allocate rent, depreciation, certain insurances, and utilities. rent, utilities, building depreciation, and insurance) would be allocated 71.4% The amount of time spent on each function would need to be estimated to allocate salary, benefits, and payroll taxes. The occupancy costs (i.e.,