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Budgeting for Restrictions
What to do when you receive contributed revenue with a donor-imposed time frame or purpose for how the grant or donation should be spent.
Budgeting Best Practices
Approaches to preparing a budget that can function both as a high-level discussion tool and a detailed map for the organization.
Budgeting: A 10-Step Checklist
This 10-step checklist helps guide the budgeting process to reflect an organization’s programs, mission, and strategic plan.
Budgeting for Change
Adapting the budgeting process for nonprofits in the process of transformation — which, in our uncertain times, is all of them.
Budgeting for Impact
Steve Zimmerman considers the budgeting process an opportunity to leverage the collective intelligence and experience of board and staff.
Nonprofit Full Costs Realized: How 2 Nonprofits Transformed their Budgets
This workshop offers lessons on embracing the “full costs framework” in your nonprofit and speaking to funders about full cost coverage.
Creating High-Functioning Nonprofits: Who Should Have What Financial Information?
This workshop mixes financial management with organizational development concepts. Who needs to know what, and when?
Reply To: Integrating Strategic Plans with the Operating Budget
If you don’t fund your strategic work (i.e., integrate your strategic plan and budget), you will never achieve your strategic goals. So, it’s critical that…
Reply To: Integrating Strategic Plans with the Operating Budget
In my many decades of work in the nonprofit sector, the major issue with strategic planning is ignorance of the organization’s staff and financial resources.…
Reply To: Integrating Strategic Plans with the Operating Budget
I tend to believe that the strategic plan should play a pivotal role in the budgeting processes. I work with my board to identify what…