Nonprofit organizations must set clear rules and guidelines to ensure the safety and health of volunteers, employees, clients, and minors, as well as to protect company property. Depending on the nature of your nonprofit's work or mission area, you may need policies and procedure documents that vary on the scale of complexity. Below are example policies ranging from a few pages to full manuals.
CAPLP, a nonprofit in Minnesota, has a thorough Volunteer Handbook on which other nonprofits may wish to model their own guidelines and policies for volunteers. Appendices include sample forms for incidents such as standards of conduct for volunteers or reporting an injury, as well as sample exit interview questions.
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Mergers and acquisitions are much more common in the nonprofit sector than most would think. Nonprofit mergers often come about through default – due to financial distress or leadership vacuums. At the same time, relatively few nonprofits are using it strategically – as a way to strengthen organizations' effectiveness, spread best practices, expand reach, and to do all of this more cost-effectively.
Cybersecurity for Nonprofits by the National Council for Nonprofits provides guidance on first steps to take when introducing your organization's risk assessment practices to examining risks from online crime.
Data Privacy and Cyber Liability: What You Don't Know Puts Your Mission at Risk makes the case that "nonprofits may be at greater risk for reputational and financial damage in the wake of data breaches" and raises concerns that nonprofit leaders may be unaware of the increasingly common breaches of nonprofits' data on donors and constituents. (Nonprofit Risk Management Center)
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State Liability Laws for Volunteers and Charitable Organizations: An Overview covers the general legal liability environment in the U.S. and has a section dedicated to North Carolina statutes protecting different types of volunteers and those pertaining to other organizational liabilities. (Nonprofit Risk Management Center, 2010)
Although referencing state laws outside of North Carolina, Securing Waivers of Liability from Volunteers of Nonprofit Organizations gives a solid overview of why nonprofits should obtain signed legal documents from volunteers during the on-boarding process and features a sample "Release and Waiver of Liability" template.
The recent passage of the American Rescue Plan Act includes updates and changes to the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC). Join presenter Jennifer Rohen with CLA to explore what the employee retention credits are, eligibility criteria and amounts for 2020 and 2021, and what it means for your nonprofit. We'll also discuss the changes that continue the credits through the end of 2021.
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External communication policies for the organization's official use of social media
Choosing a vendor to meet your information technology or cybersecurity needs is not an easy task. To help, the National Cybersecurity Alliance created a Security Vendor Questionnaire checklist of critical questions you should ask current or potential vendors.