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Preparing for Your School or Nonprofit Financial Audit: Identifying Risks and Establishing Strong Internal Controls

sgEngage

As part of your regular discussion with your auditor, preferably at the start of your fiscal year, review your internal controls. With those risk areas clarified, you can work with your internal control committee to prioritize the probability those potential problems might happen and what their impact might be.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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Preparing this document is a learning experience. My colleague Joanna Pineda, Founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. Preparing a board matrix is a learning experience. Financial statements.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Prevent Internal Injuries The first category includes the situations that we can, and should, prevent. These are internal challenges that might be related to culture, human resources, or operations. This methodology can be used to quickly answer critical questions surrounding any pressing issue. Don’t laugh, I’ve seen it happen.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In my Fall 2011 President’s Update , I mentioned PBS NewsHour’s two stories, and complete press coverage of our work is listed on our website.

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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices

NonProfit Hub

Start by working on internal messaging and move outwardly toward the public relations messages. Here is a short list to help guide your steps: Internal Communication. Press Announcement. If You Can’t Train In-Person, Document! Leadership Team. Wider Team. Volunteers. Donors/Funders. Community Partners/Stakeholders.

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Using Service Design to Map Your Digital Ecosystem

Forum One

Once you’ve created a basic service blueprint that documents the human or technological elements of an experience, as we did with the haircut example, you can expand upon the blueprint to capture integrations, marketing funnels, and other relevant considerations. Service blueprinting is a key step in mapping your digital ecosystem.

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How to Solove the Brand Inconsistency Problem You Didn’t Even Know You Had

NetWits

You avoid sending inconsistent messages by creating and living by a brand manual – a document that provides all of the pertinent information needed to communicate your brand – internally and externally. This will help your audiences (internal and external) understand how you’ve evolved. How do you avoid this inconsistency?

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