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Beyond the Audit: 6 Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm

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The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor. Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

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Queries and reporting tools will provide an efficient means of building a list of relevant activities. This effective guide will be a comprehensive blueprint to working at your organization, including links to relevant resources, steps for data entry, and flow charts outlining who is responsible for which tasks.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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Further, funders disincentivize risk when they require lengthy applications and reports that may not always showcase reality or the organization’s ability to create impact. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. The other organization was over capacity.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Looking back, I’m happy to report that the experiment paid off. Breaking up into small tables worked – I saw table after table of people leaning in, standing up, gathered around flip charts. But I’m most pleased that EDF staff are evaluating how blogging will help achieve their goals, not just blogging for the sake of it.

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Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school. Grossman recommends that when you have something you want to get your employees input on, post a question on a flip chart in your department or office.

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Always Follow Through

Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you say youll send a team member a report, do so. Too many managers dont follow through. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports. If you promise to get an employee an answer, get it for him or her. Perhaps they get busy.

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Four Tips And Observations For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Ensure employees know youve read the important reports they send to you. Get an ink stamp that says "Read by [insert your name]" and stamp each report you read. Then, route the report back to the applicable employee. The quality of reports will likely improve! Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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