Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Calculate Your Indirect Cost Rate Complete and correct cost allocation is key to the financial stability of your organization. If you aren’t including indirect costs—such as salaries or rent—into your funding requests or program planning, you are setting yourself up for stress later in the year.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Understanding this purpose can guide the grant writing process, ensuring that proposals align with the funder’s goals. Impact of Grants on Students Grants also play a significant role in education by providing students with financial assistance to pursue their academic goals. Evaluation Plan Methods to measure project success.

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Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

The main goal goes beyond just getting money—it helps organizations turn their ideas into reality. Other mistakes come off the top of my head: unclear goals, not enough preliminary data to prove feasibility, and weak budget justifications. Not following instructions tops the list and signals carelessness right away.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Calculating indirect costs can be challenging. Program-based budgets will allow your organization to make more precise cash flow projections and more appropriate fundraising goals for the year so that your organization can plan to accomplish more, not less.

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RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

De Minimis Indirect Cost Rate Increase (§200.414): For those recipients (and subrecipients) who do not have a negotiated indirect cost rate agreement in place, this is welcome news. As overhead and administrative costs grow, organizations often scramble to find ways to recoup this funding.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Corporate Grants Corporate grants are financial contributions provided by businesses to support various initiatives that align with their corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals. Purpose of Funding Funding must align with the goals of the grant provider. Objectives and Goals : Specific, measurable outcomes intended to be achieved.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A brief description of the project, including your goals and objectives. Project goals and objectives When it comes to grant proposals, it is important to understand the difference between goals and objectives. Information about your organization and its experience addressing your proposal’s key need or problem.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

Anticipated expenses: Direct costs, like staff time, consultants, supplies, equipment, and evaluation (such as conducting surveys or collecting feedback). Indirect costs—or the invisible costs, like rent, utilities, office supplies, marketing, and administrative staff. Earned income from events, products, and fees.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 11, 2024

Reality: Operating costs, such as paying utility bills, rent, salaries, and investing in office equipment are referred to by a variety of names, including “overhead,” “administrative costs,” and “indirect costs.” Also, we hope one of these grants can help a nonprofit achieve their goal!

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

Or my favorite—when one organization has a NICRA (Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement) of 47% while the other three organizations use the 10% de minimus rate, and this causes a stir. I’ve even negotiated that none of us ask for Indirect Costs so all the money goes directly to the program! Has this worked all the time?

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Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

These grants typically have goals associated with them—the foundation has a specific mission, or the government grant wants to address a specific societal issue. Many don’t cover operating costs or have a small allotment for indirect costs such as salaries, insurance, and utilities.

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GiveSmart

MARCH 12, 2024

Typical costs for in-person events include venue rental, catering, marketing, and staffing. Along with expenses connected directly to the event, there are also indirect costs to account for, such as staff salaries. Ideally, the event ROI for nonprofits will equal more than 70% of the cost of hosting and organizing.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

If you are just starting out, you may have to build up to that goal. But your goal should be to spend appropriately on fundraising so you can bring in the money you need to fully fund your programs. These are also known as indirect costs, expenses that cannot be tied directly to programs.

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Allied Grant Writers

MARCH 17, 2025

This should include both direct and indirect costs, ensuring transparency and accountability. Researching and Identifying Appropriate Grants With the project details in hand, the next step involves researching potential grant opportunities that align with the projects goals.

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Grant Geek

MARCH 1, 2022

Along with your specific costs associated with your project, sometimes there is also an indirect negotiated cost rate that needs to be factored in. An Indirect Cost Rate is the negotiated rate that you, as the applicant, have negotiated with the funder to cover. Indirect costs may be either fixed or variable.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. If so, you've fallen victim to the overhead myth.

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Allied Grant Writers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Goals and Objectives : Specific, measurable outcomes of your project. This section should include: Clear goals and objectives : What specific outcomes do you aim to achieve? Ensure all costs are justifiable and directly related to the project. Include both direct costs (e.g., salaries, materials) and indirect costs (e.g.,

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

This step is crucial for setting realistic financial goals. Align Budgets with Strategic Goals This step ensures that financial resources are allocated to support your organization’s long-term strategic objectives and immediate programmatic goals. Ensure each cost is justified in terms of the program’s objectives.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2024

Grant writing is an invaluable skill that opens doors to funding opportunities, enabling nonprofits, researchers, and various organizations to achieve their goals. Make sure this section aligns closely with the goals and interests of the funding body to increase your chances of success. Why Learn About Grant Writing?

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Peak Proposals

AUGUST 1, 2023

If you read a solicitation and you’re thinking, “Do we need to work in all these places and meet all these goals?” BUDGET A proposal budget is another area where the questions can be very specific to the solicitation at hand, although a few questions are standard fare, including: Are indirect costs allowable?

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Features of Project Proposal vs. a Research Proposal Project Proposal A project proposal is usually structured around a single goal (often named by the funder) and objectives (also often named by the funder), with specific activities listed under each objective. does X cause Y? is Y related to X?)

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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

deadlines, fundraising goals, meetings, customer complaints, toxic coworkers) outweigh the resources you have to meet the demands (e.g., Consider increasing resources by providing more funding to cover indirect costs and general operating support. perfectionism, unrealistic goals, negative self-talk).

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