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The Curse of Line-Item Budgets: Tracking Pennies Instead of Outcomes

Oct 8, 2020 | Guest Author Guest Author, Guest Author Rewind

This post on the importance of flexible funding and the restrictiveness of line-item grant budgets originally appeared on the blog in June 2018. It is reposted here as part of our Rewind blog series. For more content related to this topic, stay tuned later this...

The Curse of Line-Item Budgets: Tracking Pennies Instead of Outcomes

Jun 19, 2018 | Guest Author Guest Author

Reading the recent CEP resource about the five things nonprofits want donors to know, there was one thing in particular that most struck a chord with me as a nonprofit executive: flexible funding. Over the past 14 years, I've run Rising Tide Capital, a nonprofit...

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The Curse of Line-Item Budgets: Tracking Pennies Instead of Outcomes

The Curse of Line-Item Budgets: Tracking Pennies Instead of Outcomes