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Discussing 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
  • Must-reads
 
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Nonprofit Overhead Toolkit

  • Accounting techniques for overhead
    and indirect costs
  • Overhead and profitability
  • Indirect costs in nonprofit contracts with government: OMB Uniform Guidance
  • 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]

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