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How to Make Your Nonprofit Recession-Proof: Perfect Your Operating Reserves Policy

Blue Fox

Recession aside, does your organization have enough moolah in reserves in case your air conditioner goes out (a catastrophic event in our sunny state of Florida)? I think my operations coordinator found a sample on some website. Look, it’s helpful that your nonprofit found a sample policy on the interwebs for free.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

We’ll be in Wyoming, in Colorado, and Florida over the coming months to do strategic planning and development work with nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. So a couple samples here this is from Charity Water. Sample metrics. Grant proposals. We’ll be in California in January, we just left. Ask “So what?”

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[VIDEO] Get More Grants with Donor Cultivation

Bloomerang

And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. But what if you’re looking for some new foundations or you heard of a foundation you really want to get in touch with and it says, “We do not accept unsolicited proposals”? More likely, 11% to 38% of nonprofits will close.

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