Consulting Services

Our philanthropic work is a commitment to service. Whether you are a nonprofit looking for help in budgeting, an organization wanting to build on internal financial processes or a grantmaking entity, Social Echoes would love to partner with you. We can not only offer analysis but also provide easy-to-use tools and templates.

Project-Pricing-and-Budgeting

Project Pricing and Budgeting

 Financial-Operations

Financial Operations

 Document-Development

Document Development

 Grant-Management

Grant Management
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Areas of Expertise

Project Pricing and Budgeting

We work closely with your team to support not only ongoing project budget development and review but also take it final stages of submission. Our process involves:

  • Conducting pre-qualification reviews and assessment of budget activities required to ensure compliance with the RFPs, cost-effectiveness as well as specific donor requirements.
  • Scheduling working sessions, as well as regular check-ins with your team to help think through cost assumptions, teaming structure and set a costing/pricing strategy.
  • Collaborating with your teams in program and finance to ensure that the budgets include costs validated in the proposal and adhere to compliance including appropriate NICRA/indirect rates.
  • Writing detailed budget narratives that outline the needs for all costs and aligning with the detailed proposal narrative.

Financial Operations

This area of work forms the basis of an effective budgeting practice for most organizations. In here, we help with:

  • Reviewing and designing sound financial reporting requirements for both, internal as well as external documentation.
  • Analyzing project spending and budget actuals to inform general pricing assumptions.
  • Engaging to adopt financial processes early on in the project cycle and taking into account internal audit guidelines as well as sponsor requirements.

Document Development

Well-documented processes form the foundation of efficiency in the organization. It ensures that the teams have the information needed to execute on various functions, in this case primarily financial operations. Drawing on years of experience in the sector, we work with your team to:

  • Create document manuals and training guides of internal financial processes, relevant checklists and roadmaps thus establishing a strong base for successful financial operation.
  • Design standardized templates and easy-to-use tool kits for budgets and budget narratives that can be easily replicated across varying proposals thereby reducing rounds of reviews and efficiently focus on delivery.
  • Document grant-making manual as a means to enhance knowledge management efforts and to be used as orientation materials for new team members.

Grant Management

A big part of doing Philanthropy is engaging others in it. The essence of grant management is two-fold – one is engaging with you on your giving motives thereby converting them into potential grant opportunities; and two is the actual grant-making practice. In here we attempt to:

  • Identify and monitor appropriate grantmaking processes by which you make grants including focus areas, eligibility criteria, application reviews, internal due diligence and reporting preferences.
  • We identify causes and organizations that align with our giving objectives and utilize our funds to support them. Below links that provide grant-making information.
Download Grant Document & Questions Fill your Grant Application Form

Who we work with

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