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How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle

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To mitigate risk throughout your grant cycle, you need to know your grantees through relationships and documentation, support their internal controls, and set up a process for whistleblower complaints. Depending on how your application is set up, you can add an open-ended question or discuss it during a follow-up conversation.

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ScreenSteps: Simple documentation

Judi Sohn

To make finding this info easier, I started building wiki pages for documenting how we at C3 do what we do. And when they do I'd have to redo/update the documentation. This application makes building step-by-step tutorials so incredibly easy. and I tell them. I took screenshots with Skitch , recorded movies with Jing.

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What You Should Know if You’re Thinking of Starting a Nonprofit Organization

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You must have your founding Board of Directors and officers selected prior to filing your Articles of Formation or Articles of Incorporation with the state. Prepare and file Articles of Incorporation. . Establish initial governing documents and policies. . Recruit incorporators and an initial director. .

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Nonprofit Accounting Basics: 5 Fundamentals to Know

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Budgeting Your nonprofit’s annual budget is a key financial planning document that guides your organization’s spending and fundraising efforts. Make sure the document can easily be updated as your nonprofit grows—you may eventually need more involved procedures for handling different types of funding.

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990 Forms: Learn the Differences for Your Nonprofit

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Between the dozens of responsibilities that crop up within the course of running a nonprofit organization—from cultivating donors to event planning—filing tax returns probably isn’t at the top of your list of priorities. Tips to Keep in Mind for Filing Form 990. Your organization’s name, mailing address, and website (if applicable).

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4 Tips For Maintaining Your Nonprofit’s Databases

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However, database are also used for storing records, files, other types of information. Duplicate files, profiles, and other data are common for every organization. Let’s not for get the multiple files you might have on one donor or volunteer. Define a standard, such as official file name + mmddyyyy + 2 initials.

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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

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As anyone without a programming background can attest, the two ways to get going are: Find documentation and getting-started resources somewhere online Search Stack Overflow and see how someone else did (some of) it My journey utilized both strategies. The goal was the same then as it is now: Use it to make something work better.

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