The Budgeting Process: budgets require good inputs in order to create good outputs and outcomes. Now, imagine a time in your work life where you have been accountable to a budget, or to where you had been involved in a situation (such as on a board of directors, or even as an employee) where the organizational budget became an issue.

Describe the situation, how you (or those involved) dealt with the situation, and what lessons you learned in terms of the importance of sound budgeting practices in a nonprofit organization.