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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Audit Committee and Its Expanding Role in Risk Management
The National Association of Corporate Directors and The Center for Board Leadership have just published Audit Committees: A Practical Guide.” It is the work of a Blue Ribbon Committee on Audit Committees and will have a major effect on the...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight, Governance
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Setting Your Sites: Fraud Resources on the Web
This month we profile several websites that offer helpful information on fraud prevention. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) website: www.aicpa.org AICPA sells a number of publications that provide very specific guidance on the topics of fraud and fraud investigations....
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Sexual Harassment
Nonprofits are not exempt from sexual harassment claims like those recently in the news for business firms and public agencies. For example, a legal secretary in California received a multimillion dollar verdict against a law firm. A trial in the...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Relocating Risks: A Primer for Nonprofits on the Move
The lease you negotiated 5 to 10 years ago is sweet in today’s market. However, the renewal price per square foot is likely to cause more than sticker shock. The monthly rent could wipe out your reserves or seriously strain...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Think Again: What You Don’t Know but Should About Interviewing & Reference Checking
“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” — Katharine Hepburn Walking into an interview is like walking into a pressure-cooker. As an applicant, you sense that the interview is your best chance at winning a job. Most nonprofit...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Risk Management Strategies for Nonprofits Serving Young Adolescents If youth is the season of hope, it’s often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
There’s No Mystery to Your History: Using Background Checks in the Screening Process
Most nonprofits use some type of background check to vet potential employees and volunteers. However, the term “background check” is used to mean very different things by different people. Sometimes the term is used loosely to refer to a variety...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
What’s a Pilot?
The term “pilot project” is often used by nonprofit leaders to describe an experiment with something new. “We’re embarking on a pilot project” may refer to an experiment with strategy, target audience to be served, or a newly formed partnership...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Theft of Funds is Not Covered by Insurance
Theft of Funds Is Not Covered by Insurance This article first appeared in Don Kramer’s Nonprofit Issues, and is reprinted here with permission from the publisher. For more information on Nonprofit Issues, visit www.nonprofitissues.com. The employee dishonesty provisions of a standard insurance...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight, Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Transition
On Thanksgiving Day, a nation at peace, stuffed with turkey and obsessed with dimpled chads, didn’t even notice a little transition that took place here in our corner of the world. It was a transition that, unlike the presidential transition,...
Topics: General