Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Executive Director is responsible for managing staff and volunteers and running day-to-day operations. They should put internal controls in place and help write policies to prevent loss, theft, or confusion, using current b est practices. Later, the Board may need to recruit and hire an Executive Director and decide on a pay scale.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2024

Now that your new nonprofit is up and running, developing a solid foundation for financial management should be a top priority. These professionals have the expertise necessary to set up your accounting system and work with you on nearly any aspect of financial management. The core of nonprofit accounting is accountability.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2012

Deborah Galea is the COO at Red Earth Software, Inc , which donates its Policy Patrol Mail Security Bundle to eligible nonprofits to prevent. congestion, legal liability, and confidentiality breaches. When it comes to operating a nonprofit, it becomes imperative to manage your resources as wisely as possible. Learn More.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Policy Patrol Mail Security Bundle (admin fee: $60) prevents email-related issues like legal liability, damage to your reputation, and confidentiality breaches. It also includes email management and filtering, email disclaimer and signature tools, and email archiving.

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Qgiv

JULY 24, 2024

Obedience The duty of obedience requires your board members to adhere to your organization’s mission, bylaws, and policies. Advisory model Using the advisory model, your board would primarily provide guidance and expertise without direct management responsibilities. What are common board roles?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2017

If you're a large organization with plenty of technical resources and expertise, you may be able to manage a self-hosted cloud service. In late 2016, note-taking service Evernote caught some flack for a change in its privacy policy that would have allowed employees to be able to access customers' data stored on Evernote's servers.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. In short, the board’s duty is to deal with the policies and the “big issues.”

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Red Tape Busters

JULY 11, 2023

At a minimum, this should include the Certificate of Currency and the Policy document, including any supplementary documents. This information should exist for each type of insurance held (public liability, business, contents, etc) and will need to be updated each year, as well as when any policy changes are advised by insurers.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Ensure that students and families feel respected and that funds are managed responsibly. Schools should understand local laws, secure necessary permits, and protect donor and student rights to avoid penalties and ensure the ethical management of fundraising activities. Reduces liability risks for theschool.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The cloud security technical session presenter was Donny Shimamoto, who is the founder and managing director of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies. If there is a security breach by one of your cloud vendors, primary liability for sensitive data rests with your organization - not the cloud vendor.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Our community team has assembled a great collection of resources for tips on developing apps and optimizing resources. I hope she's right.

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Center for Major Gifts

JUNE 16, 2024

Anyone can make a gift of real estate as long as the nonprofit’s gift acceptance policy allows it, and the property is in marketable condition; ideally free of debts. Nonprofits can refuse to accept a property if it puts the nonprofit at risk of liability or unaffordable expenses. Who are you, as the donor?

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Qgiv

MARCH 5, 2024

Political organizations: Political nonprofits engage in advocacy, lobbying, and political activities to influence legislation and public policy. 501(c)(2) : This type of tax-exemption is for exempt organizations to create a corporation to hold the title to property the organization owns to minimize liability risks of losing the property.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

Lower liability insurance limits First, the community-based nonprofit sector generally must carry lower limits of liability insurance. Most insurance companies have reinsurance in order to protect their solvency and transfer a portion of their liability to the reinsurer. The answer is fourfold. Was training insufficient?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Most of the time, these more complicated donations are fine to accept, they just take a little more work to manage. Here’s where a Gift Acceptance Policy can help (more on that in a moment). You might say to that donor “That’s a generous offer, but our policy says I need to take this sort of donation to my Board for approval.”

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 1, 2024

Know how to manage asset-based gifts. All of them applauded the plan of action but explained that none of their responsibilities focused on charitable planning to reduce or eliminate tax liability. Do you have a gift acceptance policy? Make a plan to ask about them in the right way with the appropriate supporter.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

IT systems are expected to open their systems up for this, but in doing so, they tend to lose control of important organizational data, need to support additional applications that serve personal devices, and face legal liabilities in case a personal device is lost or stolen. TechSoup itself has adopted a tiered user policy.

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Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Estate planning involves determining who will inherit your assets and who will manage your estate upon your death. Executor : You can designate someone you trust to manage your estate. Control : You can manage and alter the trust during your lifetime. What Is Estate Planning? Protection : Protects your medical preferences.

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Planned Giving

JULY 29, 2024

Gaining a clear understanding of probate can render the process more straightforward and manageable than it initially appears. These include: Assets with a Named Beneficiary: Such as life insurance policies or retirement accounts. Assets Placed in a Living Trust: Managed and distributed by the trustee without probate.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Additionally, even if a vendor is providing something as a part of their in-kind sponsorship (or just for free because they’re awesome), you’ll still want to have a contract for liability reasons while they’re onsite at your event. If you have to use pens, enforce a one pen per guest policy to avoid shared materials.

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Planned Giving

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Role of the Executor Responsibilities of an Executor The executor is responsible for managing the deceased’s estate according to the will. This includes real estate, bank accounts, investments, personal property, and liabilities like mortgages and loans. Beneficiary Designations: Name beneficiaries for accounts and policies.

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Planned Giving

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s like an insurance policy for your life, not just your death. Let’s break this down into manageable steps. Assessing Your Assets and Liabilities First things first: Take stock of what you’ve got. Young People Don’t Need Estate Planning Ah, to be young and feel invincible.

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Blackbaud

OCTOBER 18, 2024

If you don’t have a volunteer management strategy in place, an influx of self-deployed crisis volunteers can increase rather than reduce the chaos. 10 Tips for Managing Crisis Volunteers Before the next crisis, put these volunteer management strategies in motion so you can help your helpers meet your community’s needs.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Tort Liability. You must consider the potential tort liability issues that might arise from the use of AI. You need to ensure that your organization has appropriate insurance coverage in place to protect against potential liability claims in all of these areas of legal risk. Tenenbaum, Esq.,

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

After all, every nonprofit needs to have someone counting the cash, writing checks, safeguarding financial integrity, and managing funds soundly! And each organization has at least one volunteer leader counting the cash, writing checks, safeguarding financial integrity, and managing funds soundly.

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