posts tagged as Overhead Myth

Does your mission blind you from making critical investments in your organization’s growth? BDO’s latest Nonprofit Standard blog examines three ways nonprofits can adopt a more business-oriented mindset to advance their mission and... read more

The “burden” of indirect costs remains one of the top concerns for both nonprofit organizations and their donors. Faced with limitations on indirect cost recovery from private foundations, shrinking federal dollars, and the increasing... read more

Nonprofit federal and state funding could be on the chopping block—and few organizations have enough operating reserves to fall back on. Data from Nonprofit Standards, our first annual nonprofit benchmarking survey, provides insight into... read more

Influential assessment organization Charity Navigator unveiled a new rating system Wednesday, June 1, that it says gives donors a better picture of organizations’ performance over time.The nonprofit updated seven metrics used for... read more

Nonprofits say “impact.” Stakeholders say “prove it.” read more

With the New Year approaching, we’ve taken time to reflect on what has been an exciting year for the nonprofit sector. Here are a few of our top posts from 2014, in case you missed them. read more

Last month, we attended the BDO, UBS and Wells Fargo jointly-sponsored event, “Summit to End the Overhead Myth,” in New York City. read more

This week, our own Rebekuh Eley and Cathy Stopyra are attending the AICPA’s Not-for-Profit Financial Executive Forum in San Francisco, where they are leading a session on the life cycle of an IRS exam and what nonprofit organizations can... read more

Back in July, my colleague Richard Larkin commented on the troubling reliance on overhead as a metric for measuring nonprofit success. As he discussed in Nonprofit Quarterly, donors should be judging an organization’s success based on... read more

Richard Larkin, technical director for nonprofit accounting at BDO, recently contributed a telling article to the Nonprofit Quarterly following the issuance of the GuideStar, Charity Navigator and Wise Giving Alliance’s letter calling... read more