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Developing a nonprofit budget: The basics and best practices

Candid

There are several types of budgets you may need: project proposal budgets, organization-wide operating budgets, capital budgets, cash flow budgets, and opportunity budgets. The good news is that budgets arent as complicated as most people fear, she writes. rent, utilities, and marketing).

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Building a Grant Writing Toolkit for Your Organization 🛠️📂

Grant Writing Made Easy

If youve ever felt like youre constantly digging for the same information , this article is for you. Budget Narrative A standard explanation of costs that can be tweaked for different applications. This is part three of our Writing Grants When Youre the Only One Doing It series. What Is a Grant Writing Toolkit?

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Five green flags for funders in your grant proposal

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Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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