This episode, Stephanie Skryzowski explains how to predict your annual income, the best ways to track and manage grants, and how to manage an inconsistent income.

Stephanie Skryzowski is a Chief Financial Officer for nonprofits, where she teaches nonprofit leads to better understand, use, and communicate their financials to donors and other stakeholders.

In this episode, Stephanie explains the type of data nonprofits should collect about their business, the best ways to manage a budget, and how to understand the complexities of grant budgets.

She also talks about how grant writers should decide which clients to work with, the services to offer nonprofits, and some common grant budget lessons.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How to decide which clients to work with.
• How to decide which services to offer a nonprofit.
• How freelancers should manage an inconsistent income.
• The best way to predict your annual income.
• The type of data nonprofits should collect about their business.
• The best ways for nonprofits to manage a budget.
• Common grant budget lessons.
• How nonprofits should track and manage grants.
• How to understand the complexities of grant budgets.

About Stephanie Skryzowski

Stephanie Skryzowski is a visionary Chief Financial Officer for nonprofits, where she shares with nonprofit leaders how to better understand, use, and communicate their financials to donors and other stakeholders.

Connect with Stephanie:

• Website

Quotables:

• “You should never be surprised by your numbers ever because you’re looking at them every single month.”
• “The budget is telling the story of the resources that you need to accomplish this amazing thing that you’re proposing. The biggest thing for me is tracking so making sure that the organization has the right financial systems in place and the right software and structure to be able to track grant funds appropriately.”
• “There are ways to make it easy for ourselves. Firstly, by stopping telling ourselves how hard it is because it’s not and then using the tools and resources that we have to help us fill in the blanks.”

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Prosperous Nonprofit Podcast
• GuideStar
• 100 Degrees Financial Health Calculator
• QuickBooks
• Grant Professionals Pricing Survey Results & Brainstorming Sessions
• Ep. 338 Mastering Freelance Finances: The Variable Income System with Gina Knox
• It’s Not Hard to Get Nonprofit Clients as a Freelance Grant Writer
• Growing your Nonprofit Consultancy Practice
• How to Niche Your Grant Writing Services to Get Ideal Nonprofit Clients
• Why you struggle with pricing as a freelance grant writer with Rachel Waterman
• Grant Easy Management Software

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