Big Fundraising Ideas

MAY 13, 2025

Schools often face budget constraints, and fundraising can provide critical supplies, updated medical equipment, and professional development for nurses. Like many areas within schools, school nurse offices often face budget constraints. Beyond cards and heartfelt thank-yous (which are essential!),

Fundraising

Candid

OCTOBER 29, 2024

On the one hand, Autonomists often lack access to traditional benefits like health insurance, retirement savings, and federal protections, which exacerbates existing wealth gaps. “It It is nerve-racking going from a steady paycheck to creating your own income.

Consulting

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

This guide offers the most practical, scalable approach to launching a planned giving programeven if you’re a small nonprofit with limited staff and budget. ” Life Insurance Gifts : “Making our organization the beneficiary of a policy you no longer need.” And it’s never too early to start.

Policy

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

However, you can strategically cut other administrative costs by: Evaluating your organizations insurance plan to ensure youre getting the right amount of coverage for the best price. Solution: Invest in Dedicated Accounting Software As soon as its feasible given your nonprofits budget, add an accounting platform to your tech stack.

Management

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 23, 2025

Only two-thirds offer health insurance; this drops to 12% for organizations with annual budgets of less than $250,000. and Noble Accounting Join Forces The Real Cost of Nonprofit Budget Cuts? While they are essential to everything from disaster recovery to affordable childcare, many operate under strict financial constraints.

Funding

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.

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

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JANUARY 29, 2025

Thus, the grant sky is not falling, and wont be, unless Trump seeks actual budget rescissions under the mostly forgotten Impoundment Control Act of 1974 which requires the President to report promptly to the Congress all withholdings of budget authority and to abide by the outcome of the congressional impoundment review process.

Grant

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

If you plan to serve alcohol (where permitted), check local regulations and appropriate insurance needs. Further ideas: If you have a bigger budget, invite a guest performersuch as a local musicianto perform alongside the children, drawing community members who dont have kids at theschool. mugs, T-shirts) featuring castmembers.

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

Consider another example: A life insurance policy payout as part of a planned legacy gift. That way, you can see which funds can be used for various purposes and which are designated for specific expenses, helping you make smarter budgeting decisions and maintain trust and accountability with donors.

Finance

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Budget Developments and the Debt Ceiling In late June, the Senate narrowly passed its version of a sweeping spending and tax package known among Republicans as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” According to the Congressional Budget Office, the legislation could add $3.3 The White House and Senate Republicans dispute this projection.

Federal Grants

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Practices may lose income due to small inefficiencies, outdated systems, or missed opportunities to engage and retain patients, even while sticking to an existing budget. Streamline Insurance Billing Much of your revenue comes from the insurance providers that cover your patients.

Insurance

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 3, 2022

At our most recent Grant Writing Made Easy workshop, we did a deep dive into nonprofit program budgets. Of all the topics I teach inside the course, the budget is the one that students have the most anxiety and confusion around. (By Follow this 3-step process for creating nonprofit program budgets. Understand the key terms.

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

Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

Grant proposals have at least two parts: the project narrative and the budget (aka cost proposal). There may not be a division of responsibilities between the cost and narrative proposals at a small nonprofit, leaving the project lead (or the grant writer) to both write the proposal narrative and prepare the budget.

Budget

GrantNews

MAY 8, 2024

Most nonprofits set aside a percentage of their annual budget to go toward staffing. This number can vary depending on the size of the nonprofit, but for most, this is anywhere from 60-90% of their annual budget. Nonprofit Insurance Many nonprofits purchase nonprofit insurance when starting their organization.

Insurance

Grant Geek

MARCH 1, 2022

Everything you need to know to develop a brilliant grant proposal budget. A grant proposal budget outlines your intended expenses if you are awarded the grant funding, specific to the project or program stated in your proposal. One of the most important elements within the application is the Project Budget and Budget Justification.

Budget

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

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. Does your budget reflect reality? . A business cannot operate without a budget. Drafting an organizational budget based on fundraising is challenging for sure.

Policies Procedures

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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? Look at it this way: If you’re not spending at least 15% of your budget on fundraising, you may be standing in the way of your own success. You may find yourself spending money on the tech tools.

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

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

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 4, 2023

A group of doctors formed a nonprofit to provide free primary care for area residents without access to health insurance. Because of the many in-kind contributions, the nonprofit can provide primary care clinic on a limited budget that serves hundreds of individuals annually. Doctors donate their time.

Grant Writing

Candid

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Financial management, budgeting, and accounts payable/receivable Tax preparation and annual audit Grants management Risk assessment and insurance Legal counsel. Professional fiscal sponsors handle your project’s back-office administration, so you have freedom to focus on your program development and test your ideas.

Insurance

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. Lead a Revenue-Wise Strategy Session As a financial leader, you touch all areas of your nonprofit organization through budgeting, forecasting, and expense management. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful.

Indirect Cost

Planned Giving

JULY 11, 2024

Sometimes brokerage and insurance services are slow to pay out on a planned gift or beneficiary designation. Imagine trying to budget for the future if you have no idea what sort of funding will be available. It turns out there are several: The nonprofit might not get the donation if it doesn’t know about it.

Insurance

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Many don’t cover operating costs or have a small allotment for indirect costs such as salaries, insurance, and utilities. Not only does this help you budget and forecast better, but this information also makes creating annual reports and website updates easier. Restricted funds often outline what they will fund and what they won’t.

Funding

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. Transitional Program BBQ.

Insurance

Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

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. Weekly email progress reports or updates. Tracking of tasks in Salesforce. Use time in transit to get things done (calls and so on).

Insurance

Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In addition to lower pay, part-time workers often do not receive benefits like health insurance, retirement and paid time off. The top reasons for vacancies included salary competition (72%), budget constraints and insufficient funds (66%) and stress and burnout (50%). It could take much longer than that to fill a part-time position.

Grant

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 22, 2024

There are attachment upload buttons for unasked-for resumes, not-yet-created project budgets, and audits that must live somewhere. It is generally accepted that any funding that is time-limited, designated for a specific purpose, and requires a program or project budget for expending the funds is a grant.

Grant

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.

Fundraising

Red Tape Busters

JULY 27, 2023

Additionally, tender writers should explain how they will manage and handle any changes to the project scope or budget overruns. This can be particularly true for annual certificates such as insurance. Budget and timelines : Check if the proposed budget and timelines are realistic and achievable.

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