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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Let your volunteers know about your organization’s liability coverage, what it covers and what it does not. Is there a liability release everyone must sign? Is orientation required?

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Why You Should Run Your Nonprofit Like a Business

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And you need policies, procedures, and processes. So work with an insurer or an insurance broker to understand the coverage you need to best protect your organization and its liability. Do you have the policies, procedures, and processes in place to run your nonprofit smoothly and efficiently? You have to establish your brand.

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The 10 roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors

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They should put internal controls in place and help write policies to prevent loss, theft, or confusion, using current b est practices. The Board will be responsible for monitoring how closely financial activity matches the actual budget, looking into how much programs and services cost, and whether that cost is appropriate.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

There those who say the perpetrator(s) didn't just hack one account at a time , but rather, hacked into one person's account that then gave access to anyone connected with that person via phone book, text, or email. Adopt an Acceptable Use Policy and Train Staff on It!

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Importance of Estate Planning: Why You Need an Estate Plan

Planned Giving

It’s like an insurance policy for your life, not just your death. Assessing Your Assets and Liabilities First things first: Take stock of what you’ve got. Maybe not your friend who still hasn’t returned that book they borrowed in college. But let’s get real: Life is unpredictable.

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501c.yada, yada, yada

Sharpshooter Communications

The nonprofit isn’t sure that the land isn’t a liability so, to protect the organization, they create a separate entity to be the owner. This week's book recommendation: The Nonprofit's Tax Guide (affiliate code below) So let’s say someone donates a piece of land to a nonprofit. 501c4: Social Welfare Organizations.

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Should You Accept ANY Type of Nonprofit Donation? (And How Should You Gracefully Decline a Gift?)

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But from time to time, a donor will offer you something else: stock, bonds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), cryptocurrency, an acre of undeveloped land, a house, a boat, a car, a painting, a sculpture, a rare book, a musical instrument, or something else that makes you scratch your head. You do so with a Gift Acceptance Policy!

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