Budgeting to Fully Fund Your Overhead for 2026 | REPLAY

Description

Did you know there are three things most folks leave out of program, project, and organizational budgets? Do you know what they are?

After over 20 years as a nonprofit development director, I learned lots about how to make fundraising easier for myself. I created tools and systems to use for tracking, soliciting gifts, building relationships, and more. As a consultant, I love sharing these tools and tips with nonprofit leaders to help make creating sustainability and greater impact just a little easier.

This workshop will help you identify the building blocks of a strong budget and explain how nonprofits can more easily raise the dollars needed to cover overhead costs. We’ll discuss how proper budgeting can propel grant proposals and fundraising appeals to success, and how to use effective messaging to raise these much-needed funds. You’ll see how to accurately describe, budget, and properly package your programs and projects to effectively secure funds from diversified funding streams.

Takeaways:

• How to write a realistic budget for your organization, programs, and projects
• The three items most budgets are missing
• Steps to diversifying your funding streams
• How to express needs to prospective donors in ways that will ignite their passion to support your work
• The top 3 metrics you should analyze regularly from your budget and why

Bonus:

• Handouts
• Replay with access through Dec. 31, 2026