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What’s New and What’s Next: Why Your Finance Team Should Attend bbcon 2024

Blackbaud

There are several exciting times of the year for nonprofit finance professionals—budget season, audits, year-end close. They will discuss the importance of having both your development and finances teams involved in donor stewardship. Reporting is a key part of any finance professional’s role.

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13 Tips for Ensuring Government Grant Compliance for Your Nonprofit Organization

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Relying on core policies that include both finance and program offices improves collaboration because everyone knows what their roles are and where the directive comes from. Tip 4: Calculate your indirect cost or make an intentional decision to use the de minimis rate. Receiving the Grant Award Congratulations on winning the grant!

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3 Strategies to Build Your Organization’s Financial Capacity

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Develop a more accurate overall budget In collaboration with your organization’s finance committee, create a more accurate overall budget by using project or program-based budgets. Calculating indirect costs can be challenging. But it does need to be part of a larger, intentional conversation about being a revenue-wise organization.

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

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finance staff, grant writers, program staff, consultants, and grant administrators). 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.

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

Blackbaud

From creating a financial cushion to clearly managing your financial reporting, your finance team can create a strong foundation to help you weather whatever the new year has in store. Tip 2: Bring both your program and finance teams into the grant application and award process.

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Why Fund Accounting Software Beats Spreadsheets for Nonprofit Grant Reporting and Compliance

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Understand Your Indirect Costs Tracking and allocating your indirect costs is one of the most tedious aspects of grant applications and reporting. This is where tracking indirect costs directly on a grant record will guarantee you are accurately calculating reimbursements and staying on top of billing.

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Statement of Cash Flows: How Nonprofits Track Inflow and Outflow of Money

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By analyzing cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities, organizations can identify trends, manage expenses, and make strategic decisions about future initiatives. The Statement of Cash Flows is divided into three sections: Operating Activities, Investing Activities, and Financing Activities.

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