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