YOUR MISSION
The most important factor of all is evaluating how well your nonprofit organization or trade association is accomplishing your mission – your reason for being. Knowing why you exist is the start – but next up is helping you identify the numbers and financials that will help you track success.
We’ll help you there.
Solving Your Issues
While your cost structure is fairly simple, you may have numerous cost categories depending on programs you run. We’ll help evaluate these costs and help you to identify where to focus your cash and spending.
It’s essential to develop a proper budget for your organization, but detailed financial statements can often make your eyes glaze over – we completely appreciate that. It’s not your job to be the accountant – that’s our job – but you do want to understand these financials.
We’ll help you set up a budget that is right for your organization. It will be simple with clear graphs, so you can focus on the important items.
Then we’ll help you track actual numbers and costs to make sure you’re on track.
In order to raise a lot of money you have to spend a lot of money. We appreciate that fundraising is an extremely important element to your not for profit organization, and yet it can be hard to evaluate success – or identify the best fundraising opportunities.
We’ll explore these with you and focus your fundraising efforts for the success of your mission.
Building the number of members in your organization is not just an important factor – it’s critical to everything you do. We appreciate that the non-financial numbers (like the number of new members) are just as important as the financials. We’ll help you learn how to use good business practices while being sensitive to the fact that you need to produce other outcomes, like social benefits and public benefits.
Supporting your social purpose with clear financial management
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You are the expert in running your nonprofit organization or trade association. You've got event planning, fundraising, and membership under control.
What you need is support for:
- Increasing membership
- Practical performance management
- A budget you can understand and track
- Identifying the non-financials that will increase your cash reserves
Why your non-profit does NOT need to act more like a business
- Helpful advice exclusively for non-profits and trade associations.
- Learn more about managing your financials to increase your social value.
Checkbox Accounting recommends Impact Foundry for Nonprofit Resources
The Impact Foundry has been providing comprehensive services and support to nonprofit organizations in the Sacramento region since 1989. Resources include a professionally-staffed resource library, a grant funder database, workshops and management networking events. The Impact Foundry enables new and existing nonprofits to improve management, operations, fund development, marketing & public relations, board development and more.
