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by Jon Pratt, Executive Director, Minnesota Council on Nonprofits

The way an organization handles decisions about funding sources sets in motion an ongoing chain of consequences, further decisions, and compromises about what the organization will and will not agree to do. Jon Pratt offers an extremely useful approach to analyzing and graphically displaying funding sources.

Read the full article from the Nonprofit Quarterly

Additional tools provided by Mr. Pratt and the Nonprofit Quarterly to assist you in your own analysis:

• Presentation of a worksheet to calculate your score
• Microsoft Excel interactive worksheet for creating your own Reliability/Autonomy score
• A graphic worksheet on which to chart your own sources of funding