Thinking Through the Business Model
A short worksheet from Nonprofit Finance Fund that helps a nonprofit team describe its business model. It has 6 prompts: mission, market (who receives services and who pays for them), programmes, expenses, revenue and outreach. Teams fill it in together, often before a budget or strategy session, to see how the parts connect and where money and mission pull apart.
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Nonprofit Finance Fund (2014). Thinking Through the Business Model. https://nff.org/wp-content/uploads/NFF-Fundamental-Thinking-Through-Business-Model.pdf
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