Tool 09
ProposedNonprofit Budget and Capacity Planner
“Can we actually deliver what this budget says we will?”
What is the Nonprofit Budget and Capacity Planner?
Connects funding to the staffing, delivery, technology, and administration the funded work would really require. Connects funding, staffing, program delivery, technology, administration, and growth.
- For
- Organizations
- Cost
- Free, with no account
- Status
- A defined concept or planned pilot that has not launched. The design is written down and nothing has been delivered. Two kinds sit here and the entry itself tells you which: a proposed pilot names its targets, and any target it names is a plan rather than a result; a proposed concept names none because none have been set.
What it does
How it will work.
This describes a tool that does not exist yet. It is proposed, and this is the design rather than a description of something you can open.
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Starts from the program to be delivered rather than the total to be raised
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Converts delivery into the hours it takes, by role
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Adds the administrative work funding creates, which most plans leave out
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Shows where the plan exceeds the capacity the organization actually has
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Makes the difference between a fundable budget and a deliverable one visible
What you walk away with
Yours, not HxDF's.
Whatever you make with a tool belongs to you. Sending anything to HxDF is always a separate choice.
A view of the plan in hours as well as dollars
The point at which the plan exceeds capacity
Numbers you can take into a board or funder conversation
Your data
Runs without an account. HxDF does not receive an organization's financial figures.
Be clear
What this is not.
Not accounting software and not a financial management system.
Where this connects
If you want to go further.
A tool covers part of the ground. An audit covers the rest, with a person, and costs nothing.
- AuditSustainability and Growth AuditIn development
- AuditGrant Readiness AuditIn development
- ReadingGrant ReadinessNothing published yet
- ReadingNonprofit Operations
While this is being built