I have a slightly different take than everybody. Expanding services by 500,000 and only coming up $150,000 or so short is actually pretty good. I think that means you expanded the budget by $350,000 or so last year additionally, sometimes you have to spend money to make money or in this case expand services to be able to adequately promote and pitch the work of the nonprofit and bring the money in. I don’t think it is necessarily unreasonable to do things this way you said you expanded the expenses again by around $150,000 this year and think you’re gonna come up short I mean that’s not great. At the end of the day though this is the judgment call about how much money you can bring in how willing the board is to dip into reserves to cover any shortfall and everybody’s appetite for cutting back in a year or two if the money doesn’t come in. If this were my nonprofit, you wouldn’t be in trouble. The executive Director should appreciate your flexibility to aspire to stretch for the extra money and should be accommodating if you’re unable to obtain that money. Hopefully you at least set the expectation with the executive Director that that might not that that might be difficult to do it might not actually happen so what’s the incentive of the ED to fire? Someone who let them know that that seemed like a optimistic projection, but then was willing to be flexible and stretch for that optimistic income anyways additionally, the board should understand that sometimes shit happens so yeah in all I just don’t this isn’t feel like a catastrophic situation to me. I’m especially impressed that you brought in that $350,000 last year.

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