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227 really practical toolkits, templates and guides for nonprofit and NGO leaders, and the consultants and funders who support them. A mix of the classics and newer methods.
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Mission Capital
Moulaye Camara's book for executive directors, country directors and board members who look after donor funds without formal financial training. Across twelve chapters it treats financial intelligence as what keeps a mission going, with original frameworks, practical tools and case material from Africa and beyond. Topics include transparency, reserves, donor due diligence, blended finance and social enterprise. Camara has worked on civil society finance across Africa for three decades.
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StrongNonprofits Toolkit
A free set of financial management tools for nonprofit finance staff and leaders. It is organised by topic: budgeting, navigating uncertainty, cash flow, operations, data and analysis, audit readiness, and governance and strategy. Downloads include a financial risk self-assessment, an equity in financial management self-assessment, a financial infrastructure self-assessment and a fiscal management activities calendar in Excel. Short videos from BDO explain equity in the finance function.
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Nonprofit Cost Analysis Toolkit: Six Steps to Finding the True Costs of Programs
Bridgespan's step-by-step toolkit for working out what each programme really costs. It takes finance and programme leaders through six steps: decide the purpose and scope, gather financial data, allocate direct costs, allocate indirect costs, check the data, and apply what you learn. Each step comes with an explanation, and the relevant steps include blank financial templates and worked examples.
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Growth of Youth-Serving Organizations
A free study by Bridgespan, commissioned by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, of 20 US youth-serving nonprofits that grew substantially. It looks at how they grew, what growth did to their finances, how their structures changed, including adding a chief operating officer, more formal systems and new board roles, and what helped or held them back. It comes as a white paper, executive summary and 20 case studies that leaders and funders use to plan for growth.
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