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Top Accounting Tips for Government Grants

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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.

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Navigate the Grant Landscape: Key Basics of Grant Writing

Allied Grant Writers

It fosters innovation, supports community projects, and helps advance educational initiatives. Scholarships Financial aid for students to cover tuition and educational expenses. Common eligibility requirements include: Eligibility Criteria Details Organization Type Must be a non-profit, educational institution, or small business.

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Understanding Nonprofit Overhead: Strategies for Transparency and Efficiency in 2025

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But recent events and changing philosophies on overhead costs have shed light on these expenses, which are required to run a functioning nonprofit. 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%.

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Strategies for Impactful Grantmaking During Funding Uncertainty

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But with education and trusted resources, you can find the line between panic and facts so you can create an intentional plan of action. Can you provide support for capacity building or indirect costs like salaries to help grantees weather the unexpected shortfall without taking lines of credit?

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The Financial Edge: Crafting Budgets for Grant Success

Allied Grant Writers

The primary parts of a grant budget include personnel costs, project expenses, and administrative and indirect costs. Personnel Costs Personnel costs encompass the expenses related to the staff involved in the grant-funded project. These may include utilities, rent, and general administrative costs.

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Yes, the GrantSummit is Still Relevant to Me, a Grant Professional of over 20 Years!

Grant Professionals Association

The professional development I attended this year included sessions on grant management, project management, change management, business branding, and the relevance of credentials to the field of higher education.

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What Are Payroll Grants and Where Can I Find Them?

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Hosting organization contributes to health insurance and other benefits, the requisite payroll taxes associated with having the fellow on payroll , and other costs. Funding is for programs for civic and community development, education, health, youth services, and social services.