Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
123 followers · 1663 posts · Server sfba.social

When you look up at a rooftop solar installation, you see the hard costs. But this stuff isn’t what costs the most. In the U.S. these hard costs only make up about 20% of the total cost of a . The soft costs—that’s all the stuff that you don’t see—make up the remaining 80%.
“The soft costs are things like the cost of , the charged by the installer, and costs—even the cost of getting the ," Griffith said.




#system #permitting #overhead #inspection #sale #monopolycontrol #preventingcompetion #grid #interconnection #utilitiesrule

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Marcel Waldvogel · @marcel
731 followers · 614 posts · Server waldvogel.family

@tante Dabei hat es so gut angefangen: Wir haben eben erst begonnen, uns Gedanken über unnötigen und seine ersatzlose Elimination zu machen. Soll das jetzt wirklich schon ins Gegenteil verkehrt werden?

#overhead

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nickharrison · @nickharrison
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fip 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot · @fipMusicBot
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Delia Christina · @DeliaChristina
1315 followers · 3102 posts · Server sfba.social

@gtak re: the Bridgespan piece about professional career development at :

Funny how it doesn't mention funding. Nonprofit budgets are not infinite. For orgs under $5M, career pathways are going to be short because staff development is going to hit a funding wall, whether for execs or frontline folks.

We can't disconnect this conversation from the stalled convo about and funding from philanthropy.

#nonprofits #overhead #genop

Last updated 2 years ago

@Sirsquid @gamingonlinux Another aspect of the I've been following is the - time, cost - of operating an instance: it can be a killer.

Keeping costs down is good for the fediverse, so it is less inclined to need .

The more we demand of the to behave the way we'd become accustomed based on our experiences on (like the birdsite), the higher the cost, which is an existential threat.

#centralizedsystems #fediverse #overhead #CorporateMoney

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Sam · @s_mcleod
114 followers · 190 posts · Server aus.social

"Excess Management Is Costing $3 Trillion Per Year in the USA alone" (2016)

Honestly - in my 17 years of experience working in tech - most (but not all) managers mostly serve to promote their own existence or as someone on HN described them - 'dead weight'.

The more sociopathic ones seem to try to buzzword their way to C-suite roles, while the majority end up living out their working lives booking "important" meetings with far too many attendees and "fixing" problems by purchasing new "enterprise" software/tools.

The upper floors of many tech companies become a vast sea of Madogiwa Zoku.

hbr.org/2016/09/excess-managem

japanesequizzes.com/portfolio/

#management #managers #overhead #bureaucracy

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Stochastic Parrot 🦜 · @culturalfawa
217 followers · 1786 posts · Server mastodon.ie

`I love it when bus'

#overhead

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Boiling Steam · @boilingsteam
3142 followers · 7938 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
Jay Frost · @JayFrost
55 followers · 12 posts · Server mastodon.world

How has the pandemic changed philanthropy? And what are funders looking for now?

Find out this Tuesday when Trent Stamp, CEO of The Eisner Foundation shares his insider insights in the Philanthropy Masterminds Series!

Register for this free program here: donorsearch-net.zoom.us/webina

#philanthropy #nonprofit #fundraising #foundation #evaluation #overhead

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