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13 Tips for Ensuring Government Grant Compliance for Your Nonprofit Organization

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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

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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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5 Essential Employee Retention Tips for Nonprofit Managers

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Assess your goals and incentive structures. Effective goal-setting can be a powerful retention tactic by building feedback, development, and engagement into day-to-day work, both at the team-wide and individual levels. If you don’t already set quarterly or annual goals for your team, consider how you might start.

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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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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. Fiscal Policies and Procedures Along with your budget, your fiscal policies and procedures provide guidance for how your team should handle your organization’s funds day to day.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

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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. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.