Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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.

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RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

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. As overhead and administrative costs grow, organizations often scramble to find ways to recoup this funding.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Budgets should include: Direct Costs : Expenses that can be directly attributed to the project, such as salaries, materials, and equipment. Indirect Costs : Overhead costs, such as utilities and administrative expenses. Budget Component Description Direct Costs Expenses directly related to the project.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2022

A proposal project budget consists of two basic elements: 1) the estimated costs of your project and 2) the anticipated income needed to meet those costs. Learn more about what funders look for from Network Engagement Manager Tracy Kaufman in our free training, What do funders look for in grant proposal budgets?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Your project budget will ideally mirror the associated direct and indirect costs of the items outlined in your project description, such as staffing, rent, supplies, promotion, and the like. Writing a proposal for a project grant can feel like a daunting task, but with the right guidance, it doesn’t need to be a bewildering endeavor.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

Anticipated expenses: Direct costs, like staff time, consultants, supplies, equipment, and evaluation (such as conducting surveys or collecting feedback). Indirect costs—or the invisible costs, like rent, utilities, office supplies, marketing, and administrative staff. Other times, it serves as the entire proposal.

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Allied Grant Writers

MARCH 17, 2025

Ministry Development Grants: These grants support internal projects such as leadership training, volunteer development, and new ministry initiatives that aim to strengthen the internal structure and outreach capabilities of the church. This should include both direct and indirect costs, ensuring transparency and accountability.

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Grant Geek

MARCH 1, 2022

Along with your specific costs associated with your project, sometimes there is also an indirect negotiated cost rate that needs to be factored in. An Indirect Cost Rate is the negotiated rate that you, as the applicant, have negotiated with the funder to cover. Indirect costs may be either fixed or variable.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The training. As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? These are also known as indirect costs, expenses that cannot be tied directly to programs. Fundraising training. And fundraising. The print collateral.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 11, 2024

Reality: Operating costs, such as paying utility bills, rent, salaries, and investing in office equipment are referred to by a variety of names, including “overhead,” “administrative costs,” and “indirect costs.”

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

Raising the De Minimis Indirect Rate that recipients may use for indirect costs without negotiating an alternative rate from 10% to 15%, and raising the amount of indirect costs a recipient can include in its base calculation of modified total direct costs for each subawardee from $25,000 to $50,000.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Join us to learn how The Financial Edge helps you manage grant activity using grant relevant dates, perform administrative tasks directly in the system so you don’t have to use external error-prone spreadsheets, and automate the indirect cost reimbursement calculation. Register now : Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:00 p.m.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2024

Itemize and justify each cost associated with the project, from direct costs like materials and labor to indirect costs such as administrative expenses. Step 2: Enroll in Specialized Training To truly excel, consider taking a structured grant writing course.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Join us to learn how The Financial Edge helps you manage grant activity using grant relevant dates, perform administrative tasks directly in the system so you don’t have to use external error-prone spreadsheets, and automate the indirect cost reimbursement calculation. Register now : Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:00 p.m.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

Fixed Costs: Regular expenses like rent, utilities, and salaries. Variable Costs: Expenses that fluctuate such as event costs, project-specific expenses, and marketing campaigns. Capital Costs: If applicable, costs associated with purchasing or upgrading physical assets for the program.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Through our work in grant development, we’ve met many faculty members who have not received training on how to find funding or write grant proposals. However, many of the principles will also apply to researchers based outside of the US as well as to nonprofits. This post is lengthy. Isn't Project Evaluation Research?

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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

Consider increasing resources by providing more funding to cover indirect costs and general operating support. Unfortunately, an undisputable trend these days is burnout. How to tell if you’re burning out While burnout might seem like a buzzword, it’s also a concept backed by decades of research. Also consider easing demands (e.g.,

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 24, 2024

The assumption that overhead or operating expenses are somehow “bad” undermines the reality that it costs money to deliver a nonprofit’s mission ( Council of Nonprofits, 2023 ). Even the federal government is considering increasing the de minimus indirect cost rate from 10% to 15% in 2024. to function.

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