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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Achieving Fiscal Fitness
This year could be a make--or break--year for nonprofits of all sizes. Whether this is the year your organization plans to expand or transitions from treading water to gaining strength, it is imperative to take the time to assess your...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Accountability Measures: A Closer Look at Service Statistics
In this age of increased accountability, nonprofits are subjected to increased scrutiny in financial management, outcome measurement, and new service statistics. Service Statistics Service statistics may include an organization's membership, numbers of clients served, and hours of service delivered. Organizations...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, Fraud and Financial Oversight
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Checking Criminal Histories: Considerations Before You Begin
Every nonprofit organization is responsible for taking reasonable measures to protect service recipients from harm. This responsibility extends to all facets of a nonprofit's interactions with its clientele. While not a panacea, careful screening of the paid and volunteer staff...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Charitable Registration: Resolve to Comply
Charities soliciting charitable contributions to further their mission can be tripped up significantly if they don’t pay attention to the requirements for charitable solicitation registration. Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia require charities, unless exempt or excluded, to register...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: The Risk Management Checkup: Ten Tips
Most of you who are reading this newsletter have given some thought to managing risk within your organizations. You've taken a look at your insurance requirements, reviewed your personnel policies, examined your service delivery to make sure that safety procedures...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: The End of the World as We’ve Known It Not!
During the last century, a handful of historians and academicians debated the question of who was the first risk manager. In his new book, The Polar Bear Strategy, author John Ross traces back the history of risk management to a...
Topics: Risk Assessment
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Calculated Risk Three Foundations
Movin through the spheres, faster than light On our way to some planets that were outta sight! We said space driver, give it a spin And take us to some places We ain't never been. — "Is That You Mo-Dean?"...
Topics: Risk Assessment
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Rocket Man
The world rests on three foundations: On study, on service, and on acts of benevolence. — Ethics of the Fathers (a classic work from around the year 200.) My grandfather died in April at the age of 96. It came...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Left Behind
The smallest sprout shows that there is really no death? — Walt Whitman Late last summer they took down a giant oak near the center of my small town, located about 25 miles from the nation's capital. Aerial photos of...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Journey of a Lifetime
Feeling inadequate? Dreaming of doing something with your life? Want to make a difference? Get real! Here is a work of miniscule proportions that will lower the bar — again! Do you strive for perfection? Do you spend countless hours...
Topics: General