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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. Allow plenty of time on the agenda for the financial staff to explain when and how statements will be available, review banking, investment, and auditing arrangements, and answer questions. Financial literacy workshops.

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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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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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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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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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The Why and the How of Updating Your Nonprofit Bylaws

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Start by reviewing your bylaws. When you do change the bylaws, there’s more to it than simply updating a document. Make reviewing and updating your bylaws something you do as a matter of routine every three years so you can ensure they’re current. Organization documents: What documents will the organization maintain?

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Evaluating Your Board Meeting Agenda to Boost Productivity

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The agendas you create for your board meetings will act as the roadmap for your meetings, letting everyone know what will be discussed and how they can best contribute to the conversation. and it’s up to the board chair, administrator, and executive director to spend enough time crafting these crucial documents. and review documents.