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Skills and Experience Inventory
This skills and experience inventory can be adapted to fit your nonprofit’s needs in assessing the skills of your staff, designating duties and responsibilities, and planning professional development training.
Reserve Funds Create Financial Nest Egg
Like families, organizations need financial nest eggs for different purposes. One of the main purposes is an operating reserve — sometimes called an operating contingency fund. They are a first line of defense against financial uncertainties ranging from uneven cash flow to cutbacks from major funders.
Document Retention and Destruction Policy
A template Document Retention and Destruction Policy.
Finding Fiscal Sponsors
Resources for unincorporated groups or nonprofits seeking to find fiscal sponsors for their activities.
General Operating Support Action Guide
A report inspired by a spirited discussion on GEOList among GEO members about general operating support, its limitations and its advantages.
How Much Profit Does a Nonprofit Need?
This article will identify the key variables and explain how any organization can calculate the minimum profit it needs to prevent slow, steady erosion of the quality of its output.
How To Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserve
Examine common factors that organizations should take into account when considering how much to set aside for their operating reserve.
Make Good Use of the Treasurer & Finance Committee
Kate Barr, executive director of Propel Nonprofits, lays out how to understand the roles of the treasurer and finance committee, along with how to recruit for these positions.
Nonprofit Financial Policy Guidelines
Developing and adopting a written financial policy clarifies the roles, authority, and responsibilities for essential financial management activities and decisions.
Nonprofit Fiscal Policies and Procedures
Establishing good fiscal policies and procedures is more of an investment of time and attention than money. This guide offers a recommended structure for policies and procedures as well as some questions to guide you in considering what is best for your organization.
Operating Reserves for Nonprofits
The majority of the nonprofits responding reported that they had less than three months of operating reserves on hand.
Sample Project Proposal Budgets
Most foundations and corporate funders require organizations to submit a project budget with their grant application. William A. Bayreuther Grantwriting has provided complementary samples of proposal budgets for a 1 year project, 2 year project and a capacity building request
Supporting the Messengers of Change: Grantee Communications Assessment Report
This report details the findings and conclusions of a study of the strategic communications capacity, challenges, and needs of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation's 38 policy grantees.
Squeamish Nonprofit Boards: How to Move Them to the Big Policy Questions
How can nonprofit boards unite their diverse personal views on complex policy issues and arrive at strong organizational positions?