Proactive, Not Perfect, Scenario Planning: A Short Guide for Our Times
When what-ifs reign, it’s hard to know what questions to start with or what actions to take. Scenario budget planning can be your friend.
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Scenario Budget Planning Template
Download and customize this budget planning template spreadsheet and make it relevant for your organization’s financial situation.
Plan for Different Revenue Scenarios
A part of Wallace’s StrongNonprofits Toolkit that focuses on revenue. Includes a template and a downloadable book on scenario planning.
Making Sense of Uncertainty: Nonprofit Scenario Planning
Nonprofits can’t be sure how events will affect society, the economy or the field, but they can navigate this uncertainty with scenario plans.
Using Surplus Budgeting to Advance and Sustain Your Mission
A case study of waterfowl and wetlands conservation organization Ducks Unlimited explores the issue of surplus budgeting.
A Board’s Guide to Surpluses and Deficits
If your organization runs a deficit, you should be concerned. But it’s more problematic to assume a surplus indicates good financial health.
True Program Costs: Program Budget and Allocation Template and Resource
This guide and accompanying spreadsheet template break the process of understanding true program costs down into several stages.
Budgeting Toolkit
This collection of tools, including a program-based budget tool, is part of the Wallace Foundation’s StrongNonprofits Toolkit series.
10 Steps to Creating a Nonprofit Budget
This list hosted by IFF provides a step-by-step process for creating and presenting a budget for your nonprofit.