Fiscal Management

The fiscal management learning guide helps build or strengthen a suite of skills and processes for responsible and ethical management of resources.

These tools and resources offer guidance to impactful fiscal management, to include developing and maintaining a healthy budget, diversifying revenue, as well as creating financial reports to various stakeholder groups.

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TREC’s learning guides serve as your personal tour guide to our expansive free resource library. Each guide allows you to quickly explore a curated group of resources, webinars, or topical collections on a specific subject to help you dive in.

Financial Management Essentials

Collection 8 Resources

Responsible stewardship of financial resources is critical for non-profits to achieve their missions. This collection is a roadmap for non-profit financial management including budgeting, reporting, and policy.

Budgeting Guide and Template

Collection 16 Resources

Having an easy-to-use budgeting tool makes developing a budget more accurate while using far less staff time to prepare it. This budgeting toolkit guides you through creating an annual budget in TREC’s template through short tutorials and offers additional guidance through tips on budgeting and forecasting.

Fiscal Strategies for Today’s Challenges

Webinar Recording 56:38 2 Resources

This session is designed for those new to financial management, fiscal strategy, and budget development, as well as anyone looking to understand the fundamentals of reserves and investment policy implementation.

Budget Scenario Planning

Webinar Recording 52:51 3 Resources

We will walk through the basics of developing alternative budgets that can adapt to change and are mission-aligned as well as share real-world examples, tools, and tips to help prepare for whatever comes next. Let’s plan together with purpose and stay mission ready. 

Budgeting & Planning

Budget Template

Samples & Templates

The TREC Budget Template is an easy-to-use budgeting tool to develop a more accurate budget while using far less staff time.

Budgeting for Grants and Fundraising: Planning and Development Considerations

Webinar Recording 48:11 3 Resources

Navigating through planning work while simultaneously balancing and managing your organization’s budget, fundraising, and strategic vision can be overwhelming. This webinar will walk through a checklist of considerations and activities to help along that journey.  

Planning for Uncertainty

Video Tutorials

This tutorial walks you through critical steps and scenario planning to take now to prepare during uncertain times such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tracking & Reporting

Financial Health Dashboard

Samples & Templates

Does your board understand your financial position and reports? Help your board and others stay informed on your organization’s reserves, budgets to actuals, and cashflow with an easy to use and understand Financial Dashboard.

Cash-Flow Projections Template

Samples & Templates

Learning how to predict cash flow and present an accurate financial picture of your organization is essential. This easy-to-use tool makes developing accurate cash flow projections simple and straight-forward.

Managing Funds

Restricted Funds Essentials

Collection 3 Resources

Learn the basics of reporting & financial management of your restricted grants funds using Quickbooks.

Financial Resiliency: Methods for building a financially sustainable organization aligned with your goals

Webinar Recording 1:00:26 10 Resources

In this webinar, we discuss how to weave together our financial planning with our organizational planning to achieve and sustain our goals. Some of the topics we cover include building reserves, program-based budgeting, program sustainability, scenario planning, and strategic grant budgets.

Operating Reserves: Why to Have One, How to Build One, and a Sample Policy to Start from

Written Resources

This resource walks through the purpose of and common obstacles to creating an Operating Reserve and lays out a clear path & sample policy to achieve it.