Improve Funding Compliance
Do your funding sources assess your organization as consistently meeting expected performance outcomes?
Answer the questions below to find out.
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Do you have a solid understanding of the contract deliverables and reporting structures required by each of your funding sources?
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Do you have a system in place to measure the progress made toward funder's requirements?
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Do you have consistent and ongoing relationships with your funding sources?
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Can you show how you used feedback provided by your funding sources in your operations and decision making processes?
The key to any organization’s success is the relationship to its funders. It is vital to have a strong connection with the funders AND have an ability to follow through on funding expectations. If you were not able to answer ‘yes’ to the above questions, you have an opportunity to strengthen an important part of your organization’s success. To help improve your funding compliance and relationships, consider the suggested resources below.
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Books & Resources
- A Funder's Guide to Organizational Assessment: Tools, Processes, And Their Use in Building Capacity (Funder's Guide)
 by Kevin Bolduc (Fieldstone Alliance; Pap/Cdr edition 2005).
Knowing what the funder looks for and how a funder views the world provides today's leader with many essential tools for use in building sustainable relationships with funders.
- High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact
by Christine W. Letts, William P. Ryan and Allen Grossman (Wiley 1998).
"It is the one book that every nonprofit manager should read."
-Administration in Social Work, Volume 26, No. 2, 2002
- Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-For-Profit in the 21st Century (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series)
 by Peter Brinckerhoff (Wiley 2000).
"Brinckerhoff demonstrates remarkable insight into the needs, functions, and output of not-for-profit agencies. He is uniquely practical and pointed with his recommendations based upon institutional missions. I find Brinckerhoff’s comments of immense help in achieving our mission here."
–Thomas A. Mackey, RNC, PhD, Clinical Director, University of Texas Nursing Services and Employee Health Services
- Please visit our Organizational Development page to learn how we can help.
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