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Understanding Nonprofit Overhead: Strategies for Transparency and Efficiency in 2025

Blackbaud

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%. Indirect costs are the overhead expenses incurred as part of a government grant. On the positive side, the U.S.

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Applicant organizations report the following barriers to accessing federal funding: staff capacity, budget size and availability of matching funds, institutional power, lack of experience applying for and receiving federal funds, and lack of administrative capacity to administer large awards.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

What’s a Better Fit, Government or Foundation Funding? Government Databases IV. Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Researching Funders and Identifying Funder Priorities What’s a Better Fit, Government or Foundation Funding? Funder Database Options d.