December 4, 2011
Greater Openness About Finances Helps a Chicago Charity Make Plans
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
At Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago, the group’s financials are posted in an office hallway.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
At Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago, the group’s financials are posted in an office hallway.
Budgeting and monitoring expenses used to be the domain of a few key people at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago, but now, after the charity’s experience in a financial-management program sponsored by the Wallace Foundation, the whole staff is involved.
Under the new system, the group creates its budget from scratch each year, starting with its program goals and building it “detail-by-detail” from there, says Johanna Sigurdardottir, the group’s
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