Anniversary or other milestones can be a golden opportunity for renewing relationships, sharing your organization's impact, and possibly raising some extra funds. Many of the resources below agree: if you want to have an anniversary event or digital campaign, start planning early!
Getting Started with Your Anniversary Plan
The segregation of duties essentially boils down to assigning different personnel to different steps in the processes of managing the nonprofit's money. The premise of this practice is that, the more people involved in the management of assets, the less likely for there to be instances of theft or fraud when compared to one individual possessing near complete control over a process.
Successful Strategies for Recruiting, Training, and Utilizing Volunteers is a 64-page handbook covering all aspects of volunteer recruitment, management, and evaluation.
A formal spending policy should unite a nonprofit's endowment with its mission and long-term strategic plan. If the endowment is funded by donor-restricted gifts, the nonprofit's fiduciary actors are required to adhere to the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA).
Creating Spending Policies
Three transgender inclusion guides developed by The American Alliance of Museums are meant to aid organizations, coworkers, and transgender professionals with the HR processes related to gender transitions in the workplace and better implementation of transgender inclusion policies. (LGBTQ+ Alliance Task Force for Transgender Inclusion, 2019)
Whether through traditional or digital mediums, nonprofits must tell their stories effectively to garner attention in a crowded media landscape.
How to Tell Stories
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.
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
In the digital age, even small nonprofits are not strangers to being the targets of cyberattacks like having passwords hacked, email phishing scams, or ransomware.