Hiring a nonprofit Executive is a crucial step for your organization, therefore it is critical to ask the correct questions to prevent making a hiring mistake and maybe avoiding future issues. By asking the right questions, you can ensure that you locate the ideal person who will commit to your organization for the long haul.
Outside Resource
Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology (NTEN, 2025) - The guide is divided into three sections reflecting different nonprofit technology categories. Your organization may participate in one or more of these categories:
Just as other organizations do, nonprofits should act to protect intellectual property they create and refrain from infringing on others' works. Whether taking photographs at your event for later use in promotional materials, having a volunteer create your nonprofit's mission statement video, or commissioning educational or program curriculum, nonprofits should ensure they have proper intellectual property rights to content they use.
Nonprofits & Copyright Law
Under Internal Revenue Code 4958, the IRS prohibits public charity 501(c)(3) organizations from using their income or assets to benefit private interests (e.g. an individual or a for-profit entity) in monetary or non-monetary ways. There are three categories of legal rules that govern a public charity's private benefit issues: the private benefit doctrine, the private inurement doctrine, and excess benefit transaction rules.
Nonprofit IT Staff Training is a free 2021 webinar by the consulting group, Community IT Innovators, which gives tips on how to develop an IT training program specific to your nonprofit’s staff needs, whether that's better on-boarding, improving on-going training efforts, or re-training staff for a major system change.
The presenters note ways to make this task approachable, such as:
Renewing the Commitment: An ADA Compliance Guide for Nonprofits - The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ensures the civil rights of people with physical and mental disabilities to have equal access to, and equal opportunity to enjoy, the services and activities of the public, private, and social sectors.
501(c)(3) organizations can engage voters and candidates through nonpartisan activities and still maintain their tax-exempt status.
Guide to Nonprofit Governance - A substantial 285 page document, intended to help guide nonprofit boards with understanding their responsibilities and establishing organizational policies. For more established boards, it can be referenced to help address any problems via a "Checklist for Directors of Troubled Not-For-Profit Organizations" and related parts of the document.
Nonprofits must be conscious of the ways they represent the populations they serve, being careful to respect the individual or group's agency, empower rather than victimize or exploit, avoid re-traumatization, and think ahead about the way presenting that story to the world will affect the storyteller's life in the future.
Introduction to Ethical Storytelling
Communications Toolkit: A Guide to Navigating Communications for Social Impact - Currently in its 4th edition, this resource covers nearly every topic in communications, whether the purpose of the messing is to raise funds or raise awareness.