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. Tip 2: Review your scheduled reports.

Indirect Cost

Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Calculating indirect costs can be challenging. Talking about appropriate metrics with your team could help your organization shed the fear-based mentality and create a culture of transparency. Conversations about the organization’s finances do not have to elicit fear and anxiety—even when the numbers aren’t great.

Finance

Blackbaud

MAY 30, 2024

For example, organizations might still use in-person meetings as a key metric for gift officers despite communication preferences and habits changing so dramatically post-2020. All of your organization’s practices directly or indirectly contribute to retention by creating a more engaging and well-run workplace.

Management

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

This metric provides insight into their true tuition-based earnings. This metric includes adjustments for: Need-based financial aid awards Merit-based scholarships State-funded scholarships and vouchers Other tuition reduction programs, such as sibling or employee discounts Table of Contents How is Net Tuition Revenue Calculated?

Metrics

Candid

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Why outcomes matter As a nonprofit that serves other nonprofits (rather than providing direct services), the impact we make is typically indirect. Metric: Nonprofits spend less time and money per dollar raised. Metric: Nonprofits led by people of color receive their fair share of grant dollars. The post Are we making progress?

Metrics

Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

This strategy may garner fewer clicks than a more indirect, general approach, but the quality of traffic will be much higher. You’ll also want to focus on a broader range of metrics to evaluate the success of your awareness campaigns. There are a couple of ways you can use your grant to achieve this goal.

Grant

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Many don’t cover operating costs or have a small allotment for indirect costs such as salaries, insurance, and utilities. So, the organizations behind the grants use the reporting requirements to make sure the funds go towards addressing those impact areas. Restricted funds often outline what they will fund and what they won’t.

Funding

The Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Social media engagement metrics. You can identify these metrics through Google Analytics and use them to understand your website user demographics on a deeper level. . For younger supporters who are still in school or just starting their careers and don’t have a high giving capacity, indirect giving methods might be appealing.

Demographics

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2024

This section should also outline how the project will be evaluated—detail the metrics for success and the methods for assessing progress towards the stated outcomes. Itemize and justify each cost associated with the project, from direct costs like materials and labor to indirect costs such as administrative expenses.

Grant Writing

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Indirect allocation is the more complex method and should be used when the cost benefits multiple functions. The most common allocation methodologies for indirect allocation include employee time and square footage. The nature of the cost will depend on how it should be allocated.

Indirect