Finding information on the "how to's" of building your nonprofit budget is not easy!

One of the most important aspects of your budget is knowing that what you present
to your board and the public is correct and accurate. Donors expect that you are
using the money wisely. It is essential that you can provide the facts and figures they will ultimately request at your fingertips! While is it can be expensive, one of the best tools you can have is a good bookkeeping system!

Accounting: Your balance sheet tells all

Below are a few websites that can offer you specific help!

Nonprofit Guides has a sample budget, proposal cover letter, letter of inquiry, proposal, and other items that may be of use to you.  http://npguides.org/guide/budget.htm

Benefits and Compensation 
Developed by Carter McNamara, Authenticity Consulting, LLC

- basics of benefits
- planning a benefits program
- buying benefits
- basic of compensation
- salary surveys (general and technical)
- career development
- employee law
- employee performance management
- employee wellness programs
- personnel polices, handbooks and records
- staffing

The complete, highly integrated library of resources for nonprofit
AND for-profit businesses can be found by clicking here!

Additional Resources:

One way to ensure that you your organization is transparent and accountable financially is to be able to rely on the guidance of others that not only know what they are doing but have the talent to be able to explain it to others so it makes sense. The team at Diversified Nonprofit Services can do just that! 

Diversified Nonprofit Services can help your organization with the following:
• Provide a Financial Health Assessment to determine financial viability

• Provide sample policies and procedures that assure organizational performance and transparency

• Explain financial stewardship and its role in the organization

• Define the role of Treasurer, Finance Committee and Audit Committee of the organization

• Define the role of the Agency Executive and the Board of Directors in the Fiduciary activities of the organization

• Identify the necessary filing forms to the United States Treasury Department

• Develop a budgeting process based on Mission as well as organizational goals and objectives, including forecasts, comparison and analysis, reviews

• Identify characteristics of financial health

• Develop a cash flow and cash management analysis

• Develop a Risk Management Plan

For more information and answers to the technical questions no one seems to know, contact Kevin Bingham with DNS Associates a full service consulting firm. The DNS
team of professionals have taught countless nonprofits what it takes to be successful
in running a nonprofit business from the ground up.