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Nonprofit Accounting Basics

NORI Document Library

Principal Documents

  • Policy Development Toolkit
    Operating Reserve Policy Toolkit for Nonprofit Organizations, April 2023
  • Brief Intro to Operating Reserves
    The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative, May 2023
  • Basic NORI Slide Deck
    Nonprofit Operating Reserves ~ Creating a Policy

Relevant Historical Documents

  • White Paper
    • Maintaining Nonprofit Operating Reserves: An Organizational Imperative for Nonprofit Financial Stability1st 
  • 1st Edition of the Toolkit

​Policy Development Tools:

  • Outline for Policy Development, annotated
  • Determining Appropriate Levels of Reserve
  • Nonprofits & Squirrels
  • Impact of Inadequate Reserves

Templates:

 

File Ratio Development Worksheet
File Reserve Needs Analysis Worksheet

Elizabeth Hamilton Foley

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