Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

Governance and Management factors: How does your Board feel about how much you should have in reserve vs spending on programs? Operating reserves are a crucial part of a healthy financial statement, and there are several ways to calculate, hold, and manage those funds. Revenue volatility factors: How volatile are your revenue sources?

Contract

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

Future Fundraising Now

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Within that okay for now group are many that may still be targeted for cuts: A memo from the Office of Management and Budget said: The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars… Nonprofits in the rest of the world cant breathe easy.

Funding

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Common project fees include: Writing proposals for new programs: $2,500-$6,000 Creating template grant proposals that work for different funders: $3,000-$6,000 Managing complex federal grants: $7,000-$10,000 Project fees usually come with payment milestones. Government-hired federal grant managers earn $32-$54 hourly.

Grants

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

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

We’ll start by discussing the “why” of these changes, why the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decided to make them now, and how they align with larger changes happening in the federal government. The new guidance states that cognizant federal agencies will uphold these indirect rates and pass-through entities (PTEs) must do the same.

UEI

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

By now, I hope you are realizing grant management doesn’t have to be a scary web of confusing topics and rules. With this grant management series, I aim to outline some of the commonly seen issues and provide resources to learn more. A grant manager is anyone involved in the management and administration of a grant (e.g.,

Indirect Cost