You are the project manager for a significant grant to provide services to your client base, within a larger host organization. Your assistant just handed you the cash flow analysis for the first 6 months of the project. Taken at face value, it does not seem to be a very negative situation since you have a loan from the host organization of $90,000 to temporarily cover cash flow shortfalls. In examining this data, something seems amiss. But is it really?
Closely examine the table and identify problems with the cell relationships, if any. If you find one or more erroneous entry, fix the table. If you find none, take no action. Note that you do start the year with $1,000 in the bank.
Based on your final resolution of the table, present a narrative analysis making cash flow recommendations for the upcoming six months of the grant.
| Fiscal Item | January | February | March | April | May | June |
| Budgeted revenues (all sources) |
$68,020 |
$60,000 |
$69,000 |
$62,000 |
$68,000 |
$59,000 |
| Budgeted disbursements | $60,000 | $71,000 | $59,000 | $68,200 | $67,000 | $60,000 |
| Receipts, less disbursements |
$8,020 |
($11,000) |
$10,000 |
($6,200) |
$1,000 |
($1,000) |
| Cash at beginning of month |
$1,000 |
$9,020 |
($1,980) |
$6,040 |
($760) |
($1,760) |
| Cumulative cash position (end of month) |
$9,020 |
($1,980) |
$8,020 |
($160) |
$240 |
($2,760) |
Discuss the impact of government grant funding for nonprofit projects. Given government funding, what are the benefits for the non-profit? What are the draw-backs? What impact will these federal funds have on the various stakeholders?
If you were a donor to a non-profit which received a large government grant, what would you want to know about the non-profit and the grant?
Address these issues from your various coursework and your experience. Provide a cogent narrative approximately one pages long, single spaced in APA format. You may use section headers to identify your discussion. Include in-text citations as appropriate.
