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How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

Blackbaud

if the organizations mission involves disaster relief) Dependence on one key person Obligations resulting from your commitments to a donors purpose restrictions Amount of unsecured debt carried by the organization Fund Accounting Software that Drives Impact Find out how Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT fits your organization.

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What you can do about the chaotic federal funds situation

Future Fundraising Now

Ripple effects from overseas cuts, broken contracts, and more is hitting hard and quickly. Heres my best advice for now: If you have no direct or indirect federal money in your budget: You are probably okay. If you face a loss of funding (direct, indirect, even potential): Ask your donors to help! Donors want to help.

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Untangling the New Uniform Grant Guidance

RBW Strategy

De Minimis Indirect Cost Rate Increase (§200.414): For those recipients (and subrecipients) who do not have a negotiated indirect cost rate agreement in place, this is welcome news. The new guidance states that cognizant federal agencies will uphold these indirect rates and pass-through entities (PTEs) must do the same.

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Taking the Fear out of Grant Management: Indirect Cost Allocation By: Kellie Brungard, GPC

Assel Grant Services

Have you ever wondered what indirect costs entail, or heard the term “de minimus rate” and questioned what that means? These indirect costs can be allocated to grant proposals. These indirect costs can be allocated to grant proposals. What are indirect costs? That is an indirect expense to this particular grant project.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

Ghaffari laid out a hypothetical situation: Imagine a homeless shelter funded through two contracts, one from HUD and the other from the City of San Francisco. The combination of the two contracts do not provide sufficient funding to carry out this program. Does the shelter know what the true cost of this program is?

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How to Calculate Net Gain from Your Nonprofit Event 

GiveSmart

Along with expenses connected directly to the event, there are also indirect costs to account for, such as staff salaries. To figure out the event’s net gain, or how much the programming brought, nonprofit staff must subtract its direct and indirect expenses from the total proceeds.

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How Does a Nonprofit Find Funding to Keep the Lights On?

Tech Soup

First, let's look at the statistics, culled from GrantStation's most recent State of Grantseeking™ Report : Almost 70 percent of nonprofits keep their indirect and administrative costs at 20 percent or less of their annual budget. Indirect and administrative costs remained the same or decreased for 70 percent of respondents.