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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.
Loans From Nonprofit Board Members
In many nonprofits, a time comes when the question arises: should the organization accept personal loans from board members? Although this article does not try to answer that question, it does outline some of the choices in how such loans can be made and can be used as a starting point for discussion with your board or personal financial advisor.
Make Good Use of the Treasurer & Finance Committee
Kate Barr, executive director of Propel Nonprofits, lays out how to understand the roles of the treasurer and finance committee, along with how to recruit for these positions.
Maximizing Nonprofit Internal Controls: An Essential Guide for Even the Most Pure
Whether your nonprofit is more like an intimate family or an enormous well-oiled machine, fraud can occur, and when it happens, it can damage your reputation, relationships with funders, and staff morale. In other words, you can't afford it.
Operating Reserve Policy
This AICPA tool contains sample elements that can be used in the creation of an operating reserve policy.
Operating Reserves for Nonprofits
The majority of the nonprofits responding reported that they had less than three months of operating reserves on hand.
Sample Investment Policy
Use these sample policies as a guideline to create an investment policy for your organization.
Sample Reserve Fund Policy
A sample reserve fund policy you can adapt for your organization.
Sample RFP (Request For Proposal) for Audit Services
A sample RFP for audit services that you can adapt for your organization.
What to Do with Board Members Who Don't Do Anything
This article includes short-term and long-term strategies to help your organization deal with a board member who is not contributing to the well-being of the board and the organization.
Squeamish Nonprofit Boards: How to Move Them to the Big Policy Questions
How can nonprofit boards unite their diverse personal views on complex policy issues and arrive at strong organizational positions?
Fiscal Oversight, Risk and the Nonprofit Board
One of the most important responsibilities of a nonprofit board is fiscal oversight. Yet many board members remain unclear about what exactly that means.
Be a Successful Board Chair
There are board chairs and there are great board chairs. Being a conscientious board member is in itself a challenging, time-consuming job.
Are You a Good Board Member?
Some do's and don'ts for leading through effective board governance. This article is also available in Spanish.
The Why, Who, What and How of an Audit Committee
An audit committee is considered a best practice for nonprofits. It helps the governing board perform its fiduciary and financial oversight roles, reduce risk, and maintain donor confidence.
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