My blog, Go Forth and Budget, discussed the challenges of a family finding the time, tools and enthusiasm to budget. These challenges were presented in a 2×2 Family Budgeting. This blog provides one solution: A Simplified Family Budget Spreadsheet.
The previous blog, Go Forth and Budget, described two challenges facing a family attempting to develop a household budget: staying motivated and which budgeting method to use. These challenges can be mapped onto a 2×2 Matrix as follows:
Having been a ‘budget-guy’ my entire professional life, I have promoted the concept of ‘Just-Enough Budgeting‘. Use only enough planning to achieve the maximum value from the planning [1]. Developing financial plans are expensive, challenging to maintain and may run counter to the well-being of an organization [2].
Even as COVID-19 subsides, non-profit organizations will be more inclined to use virtual technologies to conduct their programming and business.
A dark ‘game’ used in select Financial Literacy circumstances to teach how compounding interest works as well as the value of paying down debt.
Clubs, societies and non-profit’s come in many shapes and sizes (see Volunteering Definitions for an overview of the differences). This discussion focuses on the question what are the core functions that occupy or consume volunteer or staff time?
Volunteers and Non-Profit organization members are a rare commodity. They are hard to find, difficult to screen, expensive to replace/retain and then vanish without warning.
I recall sitting in a board meeting for a non-profit I was involved with years ago and the budget process came up. Specifically the word ‘budget’ meant to different things to different board members.
In a previous blog, Co-Opetition at 20-Something, I gave myself a memory jog for the book of the same name. One of the reasons I was re-reading this book was to know what the concept has to say about Co-Opetition and Non-Profits [1].
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