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13 Tips for Ensuring Government Grant Compliance for Your Nonprofit Organization

Blackbaud

Pre-Award Preparation Have certain policies and processes in place before applying for a grant so you can be confident you meet their requirements and there are no surprises. Tip 1: Have your leadership drive the conversation on grant funding and the policies associated with this revenue stream. Update your policies accordingly.

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

Blackbaud

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy. Update the policy based on your current and future needs.

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Untangling the New Uniform Grant Guidance

RBW Strategy

Objective 3: Clarifying Sections that Recipients or Agencies have Interpreted in Different Ways : While this objective does not constitute specific policy or process changes, it does help to diminish confusion when questions are raised. This has led to a more robust definitions section and ensures a lack of ambiguity. Let’s examine each one.

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Why we’re all burned out and what to do about it  

Candid

deadlines, fundraising goals, meetings, customer complaints, toxic coworkers) outweigh the resources you have to meet the demands (e.g., Consider increasing resources by providing more funding to cover indirect costs and general operating support. perfectionism, unrealistic goals, negative self-talk).

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

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. Bridgespan Group Nonprofit Cost Analysis toolkit.

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The Essential Guide to Nonprofit Budgets in 2024

Grant Writing Made Easy

Regulatory Changes: Ongoing changes in government policies and regulations can affect funding, operations, and compliance, requiring constant vigilance and adaptability from nonprofit organizations. This step is crucial for setting realistic financial goals. Ensure each cost is justified in terms of the program’s objectives.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Features of Project Proposal vs. a Research Proposal Project Proposal A project proposal is usually structured around a single goal (often named by the funder) and objectives (also often named by the funder), with specific activities listed under each objective. does X cause Y? is Y related to X?) on our blog ).

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