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Permanent savings to move toward structural balance
- Increase fees
- Create new service charges for user-specific services currently funded by
other means
- Reduce hours of operation
- Close facilities that are receiving low use or are in need of extensive
repair
- Reduce service frequency or scale back existing programs
- Establish a joint purchasing agreement with other nonprofits to take
advantage of reduced prices for larger purchases
- Investigate the possibility of regional service consolidation
- Limit or reduce overtime
- Replace full-time staff with less costly part-time personnel
- Examine the duties and hours of part-time and temporary staff to
determine if the positions are truly needed
- Use volunteers wherever possible to reduce salary and benefit costs
- Institute safety programs for employees to reduce claims and employee
absenteeism
- Extend the useful life of equipment
- Examine departmental organization and employee responsibilities for
possible position consolidation, transfer to needier departments, or
position downgrading
- Use inexpensive employee recognition practices to generate cost-saving
ideas
- Require employees to pay part of health insurance or increase the
amount that employees pay
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