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Nonprofit Overhead
About the Nonprofit Overhead Project
What is overhead?
How much is too much overhead?
How inordinately low overhead hurts nonprofits, foundations, and communities
How to get involved
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Nonprofit Overhead
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Accounting techniques for overhead
and indirect costs
Overhead and profitability
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Indirect costs and foundation grants
Raising the issue with your funders
Messaging to the public about overhead
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"Donors Pay Little Attention to Overhead Costs, Study Finds [Philanthropy News Digest]
see more findings from the study here:
How Much Do Donors Really Care About Overhead Spending?
"Two-Legged Stool: New Findings from California on Nonprofits & Overhead" [Upcoming issue of Nonprofit Policy Forum, a journal published by ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations)]
"Why Nonprofit Organizations Should Take Risks More Often -- Even If It Means Failure" [Forbes]
"Balancing the Mission Checkbook: A Graphic Re-visioning of Nonprofit Overhead" [Nonprofit Assistance Fund]
"Grantmaking Should be Grounded in Real Costs" [Stanford Social Innovation Review]
"Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy" [Stanford Social Innovation Review]
"Foundations Show Signs of Moving Beyond 'Overhead Myth'" [The Chronicle of Philanthropy]
"The Myth of Double-Dipping and the Destructiveness of Restricted Funding"[Nonprofit With Balls]
"Why Funding Overhead is Not the Real Issue: The Case to Cover Full Costs" [The Nonprofit Quarterly]
"Understanding the Real Cost of Nonprofit Work" [Huffington Post]
"Nonprofit Overhead Doesn't Matter. Except When It Does." [Huffington Post]
"You Won't Believe the Overhead Costs at These 10 Nonprofits" [The Street]
"Simple Tweak Could Nearly Double the Amount You Give to Charity" [Science]
Fun Article From Funder That Says All The Right Things [Stanford Social Innovation Review]
