Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

The post How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud. Consult your auditor and CPA to identify the options that work best for your organization. This post was originally published October 2016 and updated January 2025.

Contracts

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Know your numbers: Review any similar programs and calculate average cost per participant, personnel time allocation percentages, and indirect cost ratios to inform budget projections. Establish your indirect cost rate: Calculate your cost rate and understand the de minimis rate available to your organization.

Government

Blackbaud

JULY 23, 2025

How to do it Assess your grant or contract language to identify which programs could be impacted. For each source, estimate how much of the total grant or contract might be affected and work with your advancement and business office teams to document the impact on school operations.

Policy

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Have you ever wondered what indirect costs entail, or heard the term “de minimus rate” and questioned what that means? These indirect costs can be allocated to grant proposals. These indirect costs can be allocated to grant proposals. What are indirect costs? That is an indirect expense to this particular grant project.

Indirect Cost

GiveSmart

MARCH 12, 2024

Along with expenses connected directly to the event, there are also indirect costs to account for, such as staff salaries. To figure out the event’s net gain, or how much the programming brought, nonprofit staff must subtract its direct and indirect expenses from the total proceeds.

Indirect Cost

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Subscribe to our blog to follow along! The organization elects to contract with the construction company in question without seeking bids from additional companies. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Identify standard elements of compliance Skill 5.2:

Grant Management

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Our blog posts typically focus on grant strategies for nonprofit institutions. Elsewhere on our blog, you can find posts dedicated to how to find funding , with much of the information applying equally to nonprofits seeking project funding and to those seeking research funding. on our blog ). The topic is research funding.

Funding