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Expert Help: Find It and Use It
Nonprofits attract bright, dedicated, and capable staff and volunteers. And many have the "Midas touch" for recruiting dynamic, well-respected, and effective board members. Despite all that resident talent, every organization needs outside help sometimes. What experts do you need and how do you find them?
Five Things To Avoid in Employee Handbooks
Here are five common mistakes found in employee handbooks and how to remedy them.
Insuring Volunteers
Get guidance on commonly asked questions about insuring volunteers, including what types of claims could be filed against your nonprofit and what coverages are available to protect your organization.
Key Person Insurance Coverage
When a nonprofit loses a key person, it causes a waterfall effect for the organization. Fortunately, the possibility of death or disability of a key person is a contingency that can be insured.
Key Steps in Developing a Risk Management Program
Looking to develop a risk management program? Here are five key steps in the Risk Management Process.
More Sample Confidentiality Policies
These samples create a framework for nonprofits in establishing and building their own confidentiality policies and guidelines for their board, staff, donors, clients, and volunteers.
Sample Fraud Policy
An organizational fraud policy facilitates the development of controls to help detect and prevent fraud against your organization.
Volunteer Background Checks: Giving Back Without Giving Up on Privacy
This guide explores the expanding world of volunteer screening, identifies relevant laws as well as fundamental privacy protections, and offers suggestions for organizations and volunteers.
Reserve Funds Create Financial Nest Egg
Like families, organizations need financial nest eggs for different purposes. One of the main purposes is an operating reserve — sometimes called an operating contingency fund. They are a first line of defense against financial uncertainties ranging from uneven cash flow to cutbacks from major funders.
Coping Advice in Hard Times
Advice based on dozens of interviews with leaders who've gone through hard times and on related texts and articles to encourage leaders to share the burden of managing financial difficulties.
An Executive Director’s Guide to Financial Leadership
From the Nonprofit Quarterly, this guide is a summary of the eight key business principles that should guide financial leadership practice.
A Board Member's Guide to Nonprofit Overhead
As board members, we have twin responsibilities: to ensure that our organization is making efficient, appropriate use of funds and to ensure that we are reporting our overhead correctly. This article provides eight key ideas to know about overhead.
#OwnYourOwnCosts
Understanding a nonprofit’s costs is necessary in order for charitable nonprofits to be financially sustainable. Rather than reporting artificially low costs, or ignoring what it really costs to deliver programs and services, the National Council of Nonprofits is encouraging all nonprofits and board members to model transparency of full costs.
How To Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserve
Examine common factors that organizations should take into account when considering how much to set aside for their operating reserve.
Layoffs: Negotiating the Rough Surf in Your Nonprofit
Layoffs that are motivated by economic or administrative reasons -- such as loss of funding or staff reorganization -- are common in the nonprofit sector. Here are answers to your common questions about layoffs.