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NGO Cost Recovery Good Practice Checklist

Humentum’s Cost Recovery Checklist will equip your NGO or nonprofit with an understanding of best practices for cost recovery.

It covers 16 items to cover under fice categories:

  • Strategy and Policy
  • Systems, Tools and Processes
  • People and Capabilities
  • Management and Culture
  • Donor Relationships

Use this checklist to assess how well you manage cost recovery in your organization and help to prioritize areas in which you are succeeding, areas that need improvement, and to track progress over time.

Download the Checklist

Also see the Total Cost Recovery Reconciliation Template and Five Initiatives for Successful Cost Recovery.

Need help? Our NGO Cost Recovery service helps nonprofits and NGOs maximize cost recovery by clarifying direct versus indirect costs, aligning internal stakeholders, and developing a tailored indirect cost policy that supports sustainability, strengthens donor negotiations, and ensures restricted funding covers the full cost of doing business.

Getting adequate cost recovery is just one step in breaking the starvation cycle in your organization.

Humentum can help optimize the rest of your operating model (think compliance, people & culture, program management, and finance and funding) so that your organization can be sustainable.

Here’s three easy ways to start:

  1. Read the curated summary of the Breaking the Starvation Cycle report: Three key findings backed by data.
  2. Register for the online course: Achieving Financial Sustainability: Get access to funding and manage your funding better.
  3. Join the Solutions Hub membership: It’s the most effective way for your entire organization to get the training, insights, and support they need to be compliant and deliver on your mission.