Create a Real Needs-Based Budget for Your Nonprofit
One of the first exercises I have my clients do?
Create a real needs-based budget . . .
You know…the real number you actually need to accomplish your mission…
✅ WITH a reserve
✅ WITH salaries at living wage
✅ WITH professional development
✅ WITH technology improvements
✅ WITH a grant writer
✅ WITH board training
✅ WITH the program scholarships you’ve always wanted to give
Here’s what’s funny…
You’d think this exercise would be freeing. But it’s typically a rather difficult exercise because we’ve been taught to be irrationally frugal.
You see, in the nonprofit sector we’re conditioned to think that we can do without.
Not true. It’s never been true.
How will we put a plan in place to raise to your organization’s true financial need if we don’t know what that number is in the first place?
It will take all of us to change that narrative and do things differently.
This is the first step to creating a realistic, hours-to-dollars funding model for organizations who want to scale and diversify their revenue. It’s incredibly rewarding to watch these shifts in strategy take place.
Whenever you’re ready, here are THREE things you can do next:
👣 Follow me on LinkedIn where I share insider info daily — the same lessons I teach my clients about attracting larger gen-ops dollars and diversifying revenue.
🍎 Grab FREE Guides + White Papers — download robust resources you can use to push against the sector’s misconceptions, equip your board, and shift your team into High-ROI fundraising.
📈 Work with me to diversify revenue & secure the gen-ops gifts you need to grow. If you’re a business-minded nonprofit CEO with big growth plans but need to make charitable revenue from investment-level donors a bigger part of your budget, you can apply to work with me here.
