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Reply To: Private: Resilience is more complicated than a checklist of steps
Hello, thank you for this discussion! I have a few thoughts about the narrative of “resilience” as it relates to the nonprofit sector. In general,…
Reply To: Private: Livable wages
We use a capital structure model with 3 sources. Contracts, Fee for service, and gifts. The triple-legged structure allows us to finance problems in any…
Reply To: Private: Can salary keep pace?
Good point, we have a similar issue because we are primarily a health care organization. We receive grants that cover a good portion of our…
Reply To: Private: Managing and using cash reserves
It is helpful to see other’s approach to reserves. After 2020, we realized some income sources that we had relied on had potential to change…
Reply To: Private: Addressing Racial Equity
These are great, Kristine! Funder intros, and I think even more broadly, generous and thoughtful intros can go such a long way in building strong…
Reply To: Private: Can salary keep pace?
Thanks for sharing these, Madge! So many great nuggets I’d love to dig deeper on 😀 1) You mentioned considering whether the time is ripe…
Reply To: Private: Can salary keep pace?
I’m really appreciative of the wisdom here! We just completed a comp analysis with Blue Whale and recently shared high-level salary report themes during our…
Reply To: Private: Managing and using cash reserves
I agree with the “it depends” school of thought on reserves planning. Three months is, to me, an irreducible minimum of operating reserves. My local…
Reply To: Private: Managing and using cash reserves
Jeff, yours is such an important point on the need for reserves being dependent to some extent on types of funding. Jon Pratt wrote a…
Reply To: Private: Managing and using cash reserves
We advise that the level of reserves should really be related to consistency, stability, and diversity of your funding. While we know that macro events…