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10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Not sure what financial information to look for?

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. Evaluate Resources IT deficits equal a rocky road for remote work. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. Similarly, when you are building a project-related team, document goals, and objectives and ensure that all participants understand what success looks like. Don’t rely on games or group lunches to turn incompatibility into excellence.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

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Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.”

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

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Because the teams were not prepared at the year-end audit for these types of significant changes, there were often issues that required auditors to spend additional time in discussions with management or to document their understanding of the changes. Collaborate Audits are a team sport!

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Strategies to utilize your online community platform for better board management

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Do m embers sometimes miss a meeting and want to catch up on the minutes , asking staff to send out relevant documents? Rather than task an employee with more work , your organizati on can l eve rage innovative association management software (AMS) with its online community platform to streamline board management. Boost collaboration.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. They are activities that are frequently governed and controlled by policies and procedures, such as: Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin conversations about risk.