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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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But it should be reinforced in person during the orientation for new members and in the documentation they receive. Create a casual atmosphere that makes it easy for people to feel comfortable discussing what they don’t know and asking about what they don’t understand. Organize panel discussions featuring the Finance Committee.

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How BoardSite Can Help Your Nonprofit Board Be More Productive

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Sponsored by BoardSite — a board of directors management platform that centralizes key administrative tasks like meeting scheduling, document management, and online voting in a secure digital platform. Your members can also upload any other relevant documents to the platform to keep them all in one place.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

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You’ll also be well-prepared to have in-depth discussions with prospective vendors and can make better decisions about which of them will be the right one to help you execute your organization’s web redesign project. A comprehensive web content inventory lists pages, images, documents, and applications on a spreadsheet.

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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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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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Preparing this document is a learning experience. These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. In-person discussions should occur both formally and informally before and after new members are welcomed to the board. Preparing a board matrix is a learning experience.

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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.

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

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Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). You can customize how many participants per room.

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