Running a small nonprofit-focused business

How do you charge? Less because they are non profit but then it’s weird, or more but then you feel you take away from them. How do you charge in a place that has a financial instability and the rate changed all the time? How do you know what is fair to charge?

How do you set benefits?

• Retirement
• Health care
• Holiday
• Insurance

Gusto is a place to hand federal, state and local taxes. Moving money from personal to business account.

GNUcash for bookkeeping - but harder to handle in UX.

Harvest for invocing and time tracking. Blasta for server. Spreadsheets. bill.com Toggl for time keeping and invoicing

Healthcare -

• SCORP to pay for healthcare.

How do you set up infrastructure?

Pricing from per hour to value pricing

How do you find a good accountant? SME are not money makers, so how do you find someone? Trial and error? Is there a network or tech platform that can help with accounting? Find an accountant that you can also use on your computer.

How to negotiate with clients to keep contract with them than hiring you full time?

• Is it because of the law? Sole proprietor maybe be perceives as an employee relationship and as a company it looks like business to business.

• What are the reasons they want to employ? Is that because they need more time and capacity? Is that because they want more stability? Does the non profit need something else that I cant provide?

• Do you contract other people? Most no, but some are a coop or a collective. Sometimes where there is a a lot of work, some people are looking for sub contractors.

• What are you focus on? Delivery or sales?
• Loads of personal connections and networking.
• Referral from other clients
• Old fashioned marketing on the internet - LinkedIn, Website, etc.
• Find a collective or buddy to recommend you to other
• Speak to non-profit you want to work with and pitch to them.

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