Therefore, I have chosen for my project Raising and Projecting Funds for a Supplemental Budget. I began by contacting several individuals who manage a non-profit organization. It was interesting, yet not surprising, that most spent little time actually planning for the coming year. The most obvious reason being that all suffer from a lack of staff. More staff would allow the luxury of having those extra, precious minutes to plan.
Every program contacted did have special fund raising events.
Many, however, held events that were extremely time consuming while producing small amounts of money. Few were fortunate enough to have a Board of Directors that was actively involved in fund raising or budgeting for the coming year. The one program who did have an active Board experienced tremendous results in the area of fund raising, but got no assistance in budgeting. She had no formal training in the field off accounting and admitted that she felt inadequate in this area. When asked why she hadn't sought help from her Board or others, she responded that she had never thought about asking them to help in that area.