The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and Boards (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series)

Provides clarity, strategy, and utility to the financial management and asset management of social sector organizations.
--Frances Hesselbein, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management

This nuts-and-bolts workbook guides nonprofit executives and boards through the budget cycle, offering practical instruction on completing each step of the process. This one-source budgeting tool kit is specifically designed to give nonprofits everything they need to prepare, approve, and implement their own budgets. It is a start-to-finish guide that is comprehensive and easy to use. It provides smaller nonprofit budgeters and non-financial nonprofit managers with a simple, systematic method to create, maintain, and track their budgets. Examples, to-do lists, worksheets, schedules, and other hands-on tools help readers get down to work. Murray Dropkin draws on years of experience in working with nonprofit financial management to make this workbook an essential tool for anyone involved in financial management within a nonprofit organization.

MURRAY DROPKIN is a the managing partner of the accounting firm Dropkin and Company, Certified Public Accountants, which specializes in working with nonprofit organizations. Dropkin has published extensively within the field of nonprofit accounting. He coedits The Nonprofit Report, a monthly newsletter on nonprofit accounting, taxation, and management, and coauthored the three-volume Guide to Audits of Nonprofit Organizations. BILL LATOUCHE has, over the last thirty years, used his writing, planning, training and organizing skills to help a wide range of individuals, groups, and organizations get what they want from complex business, governmental and nonprofit entities. Bill has served as a Fellow of the Institute for Individual and Organizational Development, and is coeditor of The Nonprofit Report.