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Reply To: Private: Resilience is more complicated than a checklist of steps
Hi all, I too have concerns about the notion of resilience. As prior posts note, it entails recovering/bouncing back to a prior state. A problem…
Reply To: Private: Managing and using cash reserves
We are in the enviable position of having reserves that cover 1o months of operating expenses available in what we call Board designated reserves. It…
Reply To: Private: Benefit Structure Equity
Hi Ruth, When we restructured our benefits structure a while back, it was a big step in the right direction. Prior to instituting a “benefit…
Reply To: Private: One time windfall
Kate: Your story is an example of a provocative statement I make in training sessions. If you want to damage a nonprofit (especially a religious…
Reply To: Private: Resilience is more complicated than a checklist of steps
What are the things you have done over the past few years that have most attended to the resilience/sustainability of your organization?
Reply To: Private: Budgeting in an era of inflation
When I wrote that article for the newsletter, I was struck once again by the many wildcards in the financial management of nonprofits. IT WAS…
Reply To: Private: Livable wages
Ronald, can you say more about this model? Why do you divide it that way and what makes that sorting useful? To me, the issue…
Reply To: Private: Benefit Structure Equity
Jen, good question! I think there is a world of nonprofit innovation out there in terms of new benefits structures and that it touches on…
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…