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

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Calculate Your Indirect Cost Rate Complete and correct cost allocation is key to the financial stability of your organization. If you aren’t including indirect costs—such as salaries or rent—into your funding requests or program planning, you are setting yourself up for stress later in the year. Watch an on-demand product tour today.

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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

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If you are just starting out, you may have to build up to that goal. But your goal should be to spend appropriately on fundraising so you can bring in the money you need to fully fund your programs. These are also known as indirect costs, expenses that cannot be tied directly to programs. Bookkeeping and accounting services.

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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too

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These grants typically have goals associated with them—the foundation has a specific mission, or the government grant wants to address a specific societal issue. Many don’t cover operating costs or have a small allotment for indirect costs such as salaries, insurance, and utilities.

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Breaking Down the Budget

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Staying within the guidelines of the grant can sometimes include the maximum or minimum funding requests, cost per participant, and maximum caps on administration costs and indirect. Fringe includes the insurance and benefits for the staff. Indirect costs may be either fixed or variable.

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Nonprofit Accounting Basics: 5 Fundamentals to Know

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The Difference Between For-Profit and Nonprofit Accounting Most for-profit organizations’ main goal in accounting is to earn the largest possible profit. Stay focused on your goal of organizational accountability as you put together your budget, fiscal policies, financial statements, and tax returns.

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Understanding Nonprofit HR: What Sets It Apart?

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That means their driving purpose is to achieve ongoing goals related to improving society in some way. This approach emphasizes offering employees a holistic set of benefits that include direct compensation as well as indirect benefits such as healthcare, paid time off, retirement plans, work-life balance, and a rewarding internal culture.

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Finding Funding for Research

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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?) 4 laptops, 3 iPads, and 3 mobile phones.

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