The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits by Bill LA Touche, Dropkin Murray, Murray Dropkin (1998, Paperback, Illustrated)

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.

An easy-to-use workbook that gives nonprofit executives and boards the tools they need to navigate through the entire budget cycle. 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 budget. Examples, to-do lists, worksheets, schedules and other hands-on tools help readers get down to work. Murray Dropkin draws on years of experience working with nonprofit financial management to make this workbook an essential tool for anyone involved in financial management within a nonprofit organization.

Industry Reviews
"This is a book every nonprofit needs." —Peter F. Drucker
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"Provides clarity, strategy, and utility to the financial management and asset management of social sector organizations." —Frances Hesselbein
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"This book is clear, insightful and required reading for all who are responsible for the success of not for profits. If you work for or run a not for profit agency you should read this book" —Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting and The Empowered Manager
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"The Budget Building Book for Nonprofits is a definitive and practical guide to the art of budgeting. It is well written and reliable as well as easily understandable." —Ron Werthman, vice president, finance/treasurer and CFO, Johns Hopkins Health System, The Johns Hopkins Hospital