By
Gisa Hartmann
Like most small-sized NGOs the one thing we don’t have too much of is time, so we
try to keep our financial records in a manner that is easy to manage, but also
allows us to comply with all the various reporting requirements.
[RESOURCE] Learning to Love Budgeting
By Meg Davis
There’s no getting around it – for most of us, creating a budget is a joyless task. But while it requires dusting off math skills some of us hoped we’d left behind in school, budgeting can also help you to develop useful and practical plans. This week’s blog post describes how to create a very basic program budget.
We recommend creating a budget that is relatively detailed from the beginning. You may or may not decide to send this detailed budget to donors when you apply for grants (more on this at the end), but you should still create one for internal use in your organization.
