<story><title>We need to talk about funding</title><url>https://octoprint.org/blog/2023/10/26/we-need-to-talk-about-funding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve recently learned a somewhat uncomfortable truth: pretty much every nonprofit needs to &lt;i&gt;constantly&lt;/i&gt; be spending effort wrangling up funding &lt;i&gt;or it will die&lt;/i&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s annoying and uncomfortable truth, but it&amp;#x27;s true.  The money won&amp;#x27;t find its way into the door on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koreth1</author><text>And a tricky part of this, for certain kinds of nonprofits, is that you&amp;#x27;ll be penalized for it because your efforts to raise more money will be classed as overhead and will lower your efficiency rating on various charity-rating lists.&lt;p&gt;A nonprofit that spends 1% of its funding on fundraising and barely scrapes by each year will be rated as more cost-effective than a nonprofit that spends 10% of its funding on fundraising and grows its donations by 15% a year, even though the latter is ultimately going to be able to devote far more resources to its programs.</text></comment>
<story><title>We need to talk about funding</title><url>https://octoprint.org/blog/2023/10/26/we-need-to-talk-about-funding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tivert</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve recently learned a somewhat uncomfortable truth: pretty much every nonprofit needs to &lt;i&gt;constantly&lt;/i&gt; be spending effort wrangling up funding &lt;i&gt;or it will die&lt;/i&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s annoying and uncomfortable truth, but it&amp;#x27;s true.  The money won&amp;#x27;t find its way into the door on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burnte</author><text>For-profits have to spend money to keep bringing it in, too. Every company has an Accounts Receivable person, even if it&amp;#x27;s a one-person business you spend a lot of time bringing in business and bringing in payments. Everyone&amp;#x27;s quick to buy, few are quick to pay.</text></comment>