Follow Up Resources
Nonprofit Budgeting Part I - Budget Basics
These resources can be used to support further applications of skills, knowledge, and tools presented at the workshop. Please check our website for more workshops for more learning opportunities. Please respect any fair use and copyright for any of the resources below.
Manual
Slides
Exercises and Handouts
- Sources of Power by Robert Gass (from Social Transformation Project)
Articles
- A Graphic Re-Visioning of Nonprofit Overhead by Curtis Klotz, Nonprofit Quarterly
- Why Funding Overhead Is Not the Real Issue: The Case to Cover Full Costs from Nonprofit Quarterly
- An Executive Director's Guide to Financial Leadership by Kate Barr and Jeanne Bell, Nonprofit Quarterly
- How the focus on overhead disenfranchises communities of color and fans the flames of injustice by Vu Le
- Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy by Jeri Eckhart-Queenan, Michael Etzel, & Sridhar Prasad, Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Demanding that Nonprofits Not Pay for Overhead is Preventing Them from Doing Good by Ben Paynter, Fast Company
- Keeping it in Reserve: Grantmaking for a Rainy Day by Hilda Polanco and John Summers, from Nonprofit Quarterly
Helpful Websites
- The Overhead Myth
- The Real Cost Project
- National Council of Nonprofits: Tools and Resources on Budgeting
- Propel Nonprofits: Budgets and Finance Resources
- Resources for Nonprofit Financial Management
(Wallace Foundation)
Webinars and Videos