Administrative & Operational Funding vs. Costs

Administrative & Operational Funding vs. Costs
You’re invited to participate in a study on administrative costs. Participation is voluntary. You have the right to withdraw at any time. Completing the survey is expected to take at least 1 hour as it will ask for 3 years of funding information and includes one excel spreadsheet to fill out. You will be able to save your progress and return to this survey at any time.

This study presents “minimal risk,” meaning that the risks encountered by participating in this study are no greater than those encountered in everyday life. Your data will be stored for 3 years. Your data will be anonymized/held confidential. For a copy of the results of this study, you may contact membership@fcssbc.ca once it is complete.
- Under the authority of the Social Services Sector Round Table (SSSRT), the Federation of Community Social Services of BC is leading research on funding vs. costs in response to sector concerns about funding methods and adequacy.
- You are invited to participate in an online survey.
- The data will be aggregated and used solely for the purpose of the present project.
- The survey will be open from July 23 to September 18 5:00 pm PT.
- Some of the questions may take you time to answer as you gather the required data.
- You may save your responses and return to the survey repeatedly while the survey is open.

2. If your organization is unionized, how much of your workforce is comprised of unionized staff working on provincial contracts?

3. How much of your annual revenue is from the Province of BC? (Please indicate a total dollar amount and a percentage). Enter only numbers.

4. How much of your annual revenue is *NOT* the Province of BC? (Please indicate a total dollar amount and a percentage). Enter only numbers.

6. How many provincially-funded contracts do you hold as a Service Provider? Enter only numbers.

7. Which geographic region in BC does your organization serve?
To confirm your geographic region by city/community name, please see: Regional health authorities - Province of British Columbia

8. To determine whether contracts are funded appropriately, funders need to understand the expenses associated with each contract. Please see the attached Excel file to enter data for each provincially-funded contract your organization has held over the last three years. Once complete, you can upload here. Do not forget to save your progress before exiting this survey.

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9. If applicable, do any of your non-provincial government funders provide proportionate funds for administrative costs? If so, how much? For example: private foundations or municipal government (100 words or less)

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10. What areas of your budget to do you consider unfunded or underfunded by the Province? (100 words or less)

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11. Please share more about unfunded costs that you do, or would, incur. Please consider how this has evolved over the three years of budget documents you have included with this survey in your answer. Is there anything that was unfunded that is now funded or vice versa? (100 words or less)

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12. Please share more about underfunded costs that you do, or would, incur. Please consider how this has evolved over the three years of budget documents you have included with this survey in your answer. Is there anything that was underfunded that is now funded or vice versa? (100 words or less)

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13. How does your organization cover shortfalls in revenue? (Select all that apply)

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14. In general, funders grant administrative cost funding as a percentage of other contract costs. What about this system is useful to you as a Service Provider? (100 words or less)

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15. Is there anything more you would like to share that may inform our work on how administrative expenses are categorized and funded in the sector? (100 words or less)

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You have reached the end of this survey. Once you're done, you can hit submit below. Thank you!
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