This article tell me how to implement surplus budgeting in not-for-profit organizations. To implement surplus budgeting can take these steps: analyze your organization and know your financial situation. Take an inventory of your unrestricted net assets. Educate program, fundraising, and administrative groups about the balance sheet, components of unrestricted net assets, and unrestricted revenues and cash flows.Align every part of the organization, every volunteer, and every staff member around the financial goals, and develop consensus on the budget surplus goal amount. Reduce functional silos so that everyone understands the goals and appreciates that sustainability is needed to achieve the organization's mission. Develop a strategic plan, a business plan, and operating budgets to support the plans. Keep an eye on reserves and have a strategy to "right the ship" at any point.

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