Two templates provided by FEMA – Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan and Continuity Plan Template and Instructions for Non-Federal Entities and Community Based Organizations – help guide your staff in preparing for disasters such that, should an interruption occur, your organizatio
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Updated: September 25, 2019
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Is your nonprofit prepared for a natural disaster? Daniel Altenau of North Carolina Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh shares key steps nonprofits can take to protect themselves from the next disaster and craft plans to assist survivors following the event. Working through questions to help identify actions during blue sky planning, pre-event preparedness, and post-event response, this webinar will help participants:
By Jada Monica Drew, Social Designs
During our time on part 2 of the webinar series, participants will have the opportunity to take a "deeper dive" in exploring more intimately the extent to which white dominant cultural tendencies have been internalized and operationalized within organizations and the role that gatekeepers have in perpetuating or disrupting patterns of exclusionary and non-inclusive practices and policies.
The General Data Protection Regulation–commonly referred to as GDPR–is a privacy law pertaining to the collection of online data enacted by the European Union (EU) that took effect May 25, 2018. The law affects organizations regardless of geographic location, since EU residents may visit the websites of governments, private companies, nonprofits, or other organizations providing goods and services, and those websites likely collect and analyze online data related to those website visitors originating in the EU (regardless of whether a transaction occurred).
Learn about the importance of an organization's tax-exempt status and the kind of situations that can jeopardize a nonprofit's tax exemption. This resource summarizes issues to be on the look out for and includes links to more information. (National Council of Nonprofits)
"A broad economic crisis can magnify a nonprofit's pre-existing financial difficulties. Getting through such crises requires communication, transparency, and planning." (Nonprofit Finance Fund) NFF recommends these tips for sound financial planning.