Indirect Cost Rate: The Key to Paying for Your Infrastructure

Donors want to pay for programs. Most donors do not want to pay for everything you need behind the scenes to make sure money raised is responsibly spent to advance the organization’s mission. How then do you raise money for administrative staff, office rent, insurance, computers, software, furniture and the like? The US government, many local governments, and some foundations allow you to apply an indirect cost rate to your program expenses as a mechanism for the donor to fund infrastructure. In this webinar, you will learn what an indirect cost rate is and how to use it to pay for essential non-program expenses.