Blackbaud

JUNE 20, 2025

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised their uniform guidance in 2024, increasing the de minimus (or standard) rate allowed for indirect costs—overhead for federal grants—from 10 to 15%. It also includes any legal fees as well as insurance and general office management, like copy paper and ink for the printer. Not necessarily.

Indirect Cost

NonProfit PRO

JULY 10, 2025

However, in organizations with operating budgets of $5 million or more, the salary gap between the executives and their staffs widens as organizational size increases. respondents reported access to employer-provided health insurance. This contrasts with last year’s report, which showed a modest 0.8% Over 96% of U.S.

Retail

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its helpful to organize this section according to the five primary categories of nonprofit revenueindividual donations, corporate philanthropy, earned income, investments, and grants to align with your budget and internal records. Internally, this report is most useful for budgeting.

Liability

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

How to do it: Gather donations from familiesespecially those of outgoing sixth gradersbefore the previous year ends. If you plan to serve alcohol (where permitted), check local regulations and appropriate insurance needs. Second-Hand UniformSales Why it works: Kids outgrow clothes quickly, and new uniforms can be pricey.

Fundraising

Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

If you’re reading this, you probably already know about the problems that nonprofits like yours are facing with their insurance: Rising insurance premiums, poor coverage from commercial insurance carriers, and in some cases, the loss of coverage altogether. Why are insurance rates soaring for nonprofits?

Insurance

Blackbaud

JULY 10, 2025

But there’s a catch—the donor says they will only donate the money if your organization raises at least $200,000 to assist with the funding. Examples of contribution revenue include one-off donations from individuals, sustained giving, or grants. Now, you have to assess the specific conditions or restrictions of the donation.

Finance

Blackbaud

MAY 6, 2024

Like a good recipe, your nonprofit budget requires high-quality ingredients, easy-to-follow steps, and a knowledgeable cook or two to put it together. Here are a few simple steps to help you create a solid budget that helps your organization allocate resources effectively and makes your budgeting process easier.

Budget

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

When you’re just getting started, it’s critical that one of your first steps is to create your nonprofit’s first budget to help you manage both your organization and your finances as it grows. Without a budget, you can find yourself in deep water, fast, with more money going out than coming in.

Budget

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Organizations are always making miracles happen on tight budgets. Above all, planning for financial sustainability comes down to Budgeting and Expenses: First, sit down with your accountant. Community Service Programs – General maintenance, repairs, and lawn care services impact the monthly budget. But you can’t avoid it.

Budget

Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Not all donations need to be monetary! By accepting in-kind donations, you can ask your donors to provide resources for your mission in ways that may be more accessible for some of your supporters. Despite not donating financially, in-kind donations can still qualify as a tax dedication, further benefiting your donors.

Donation

GiveSmart

MARCH 21, 2024

If you’re planning a fundraiser, you’ll need a good budget. A fundraising budget plan is essential to maximizing your profit margins and collecting more funds for your cause. Large, lavish in-person events will naturally need bigger budgets than intimate ones or virtual or hybrid events.

Budget

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Obviously, donors want as much of their donation as possible to go to your programs, to help change lives. As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? And if you don’t have a budget , that’s an even bigger problem!). And fundraising.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

You don’t want to spend more than you raise, and poor planning can turn an event into a budget buster that wastes your most precious resource – time and volunteers. Tupperware parties, garage sales, and candle fundraisers will not sustain your budget. The RIGHT event: Raises 10-20% of your annual budget. BUT the flip side?

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2021

You need a budget. If you’re a business, and you don’t have an audience, a brand, a budget, and a marketing plan, you can’t sell your products or services. If you’re not marketing your nonprofit every day, you’re missing out on donations that could be helping you meet needs in your community. Does your budget reflect reality? .

Policies Procedures

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 Restricted funds are donations or grants that can only be used for the purposes specified by the funder. All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary.

Funding

Candid

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Any 501(c)(3) can lend your project its nonprofit status and collect donations on your behalf. Financial management, budgeting, and accounts payable/receivable Tax preparation and annual audit Grants management Risk assessment and insurance Legal counsel. Executive and organizational coaching Donation oversight.

Insurance

Planned Giving

JULY 11, 2024

It turns out there are several: The nonprofit might not get the donation if it doesn’t know about it. Sometimes other heirs contest charitable donations. Sometimes brokerage and insurance services are slow to pay out on a planned gift or beneficiary designation. Knowing about a future gift helps a nonprofit to plan.

Insurance

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 4, 2023

A city donated space within a local park for the construction of an adaptive baseball field and playground. A group of doctors formed a nonprofit to provide free primary care for area residents without access to health insurance. Doctors donate their time. Doctors donate their time. So, what does that look like?

Grant Writing

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2014

ABCS, with offices across the state and operations in Mexico, offers counseling and pregnancy services, classes on budgeting and personal finance, and foster care services, and also works with the state of Arizona to facilitate adoptions, among other things.

Insurance

amplifi

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Your school needs to do more than the electric company or an insurance provider when you apply the personal touch to your school’s fundraising outreach! And you can take this strategy as far as your data and budget allow. It’s not hard to address someone by their first name. Jake from State Farm can do that!

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Include fundraising fees, the subscription costs for your donor management system and other online tools, insurance, postage for appeals … everything! Basically, if you haven’t already taken the time to create an annual budget for your nonprofit, you need to do that first. Build that into your donation form! The Bottom Line.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

BetterWorld Telecom provides services that enable and support a virtual work environment, as a donation partner with TechSoup Global. Budget time between online and offline activities. Insuring that you have a structure and policies in place can insure a successful transition to a virtual work environment for your team.

Insurance

CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

If you’re on a fixed budget or timeframe, a one-day online fundraiser is one of the best charity event ideas for your organization. One of the best features was that they embedded the livestream directly onto their CauseVox page so that viewers could watch and donate all in one place. Donation Match Drive. 5K/Marathon.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Be ready to share in the Financial section how this growth will impact your budget, both in revenue and expenses. Start by developing revenue projections, including anticipated sources of funding from donations, grants, etc. Will you need more refrigerated space? More trucks? More staff or volunteers? Will you expand hours?

Nonprofit

The Fundraising Coach

APRIL 12, 2023

Create a Detailed Campaign Budget Your organization creates an annual budget to help determine your overarching financial health and goals. Create a Detailed Campaign Budget Your organization creates an annual budget to help determine your overarching financial health and goals. Let’s get started.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While every donation is impactful for your nonprofit, it takes more than small gifts to fund your work. Legacy giving, also known as planned giving, is a type of donation that’s meant to support a nonprofit, university, or other organization beyond the donor’s lifetime. What is Legacy Giving? Tax benefits.

Pass-Through

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2024

Budgeting Your nonprofit’s annual budget is a key financial planning document that guides your organization’s spending and fundraising efforts. Most nonprofits break down the revenue side of their budget by source. These categories may include: Individual donations of all sizes and varieties.

Policy

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Doing this work defensibly involves arcane techniques like applying probabilistic equivalence techniques to insure that groups being measured are equivalent. Until foundations build in adequate social research budgets in to their grantmaking I wouldn’t expect much movement in this area. Please log in to comment on this blog post.

CRM

Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Businesses fear future potential revenue losses and may decide to cut back on expenses and their donations. Grants, corporate sponsors, fundraisers, in-kind donations, individual donors and program income can potentially fuel diverse revenue streams. A budget is made up of revenue and expenses.

GPC

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 16, 2024

When well-structured, this document can help you accurately track your income and expenses to streamline budgeting and financial reporting. It is a list that details your nonprofit’s financial accounts to organize your most essential financial data. Take an Organized Approach.

Liability

Big Fundraising Ideas

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The appeal of product fundraising lies in the tangible items that supporters receive in exchange for their donations. Lower Overhead Costs: If partnered with the right vendors, many product fundraisers can be organized with minimal upfront costs, making them accessible for organizations with limited budgets.

Fundraising

Peak Proposals

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But what if your organization has successfully relied on donations and fundraisers for many years? To generate enough unrestricted funding to cover general operating costs, most nonprofits conduct some kind of fundraising, such as holding fundraising events, soliciting cash donations, or both.

Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Instead of investors and customers, you run on charitable donations from donors, grantors, foundations, and other sources. Recruitment obstacles: Nonprofits tend to face a more challenging recruiting environment because they have tighter budgets. After all, your nonprofit is practically run like a business.

IT

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

Anonymity for bidders makes the shy bidder more confident to bid and donate. . Attending the silent auction event usually incurs a couvert charge, attendees may use their philanthropy budget on attending the event rather than bidding on auction items. Donations need to be delivered or shipped after the event has concluded.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Joy was previously the librarian in a large, five-county district library system and when she took the La Conner position, she found that she had no IT support on site and a limited budget. Joy and Lane Fernando worked to together to set up the new 5-station donation: Server Computer: a Core 2 Duo Dell Optiplex Desktop. 1 USB Hub.

Software

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Joy was previously the librarian in a large, five-county district library system and when she took the La Conner position, she found that she had no IT support on site and a limited budget. Joy and Lane Fernando worked to together to set up the new 5-station donation: Server Computer: a Core 2 Duo Dell Optiplex Desktop. 1 USB Hub.

Software

Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

In most cases, nonprofits rely on donations from supporters or grants to function, and they often have tax-exempt status. Beyond initial setup expenses, consider ongoing costs such as rent, utilities, insurance, salaries, and program expenses. Their goals are often focused on helping others in need and bettering their community.

Nonprofit