About ACRE
Administrative Cost Reduction Experts
Who are the “experts” in Administrative Cost Reduction Experts? They’re the countless association and charitable organization management professionals who’s vast experience and knowledge feed ACRE’s existence. ACRE leverages their ingenuity and their commonality to help them collectively reduce unnecessary costs, so they all can devote more of their money to their mission.
The Beginning
Serving as associate executive director for a $40-million national association, Craig Price, CAE faced a problem familiar to a lot of nonprofits. Trying to balance a budget when the expenses required to meet growing needs far outpaced expected revenue.
With oversight responsibilities for finance, as well as administration and a host of mission-specific functions, Craig surveyed a number of peer associations to learn how they managed similar financial challenges without cutting expenses that would negatively impact their operations or programs. The results revealed a wide range of innovative cost reduction ideas.
Craig came away from that experience recognizing the significant benefits that associations could glean from an association-specific, data-driven, best-practices approach to reducing non-strategic costs
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Craig Price, CAE
ACRE President
The ACRE Way
ACRE was built on that foundation and infused with expertise in data analysis, spend management, and vendor negotiations. It developed an extensive database of association costs and best spending practices to help identify client spending areas that are ripe for cost reduction.
Helping Other Nonprofits
Originally created to help membership associations address their financial challenges, ACRE’s focus expanded to also provide similar cost-saving services to charitable organizations. That led to the name change from Association Cost Reduction Experts to Administrative Cost Reduction Experts.
ACRE’s Cost-Saving Services
- Identify and substantially reduce hidden excess operating costs
- Secure discounted pricing on products and services commonly used by 501(c) organizations
- Provide affordable fractional and as-needed staffing from association professionals
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