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How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle

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Here are some of the internal controls your grantees should have: Formal Written Policies and Procedures You want to make sure your grantees have documented and defined ways of managing and tracking the funds they receive. Adequate Monitoring Having great written policies is key, but how do your grantees ensure that they are followed?

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How can small nonprofits be successful in strategic human resources management?

ASU Lodestar Center

SHRM is the intentional application of formalized policies and practices that create organizational successes by investing in the human capital of employees. But nonprofit leaders at all levels can still pursue SHRM systems, even with limited time and resources. A dangerous cycle is found where these systems lack.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. This has led to situations where BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately affected by policies meant to address “bad” behaviors.

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Safeguarding Good: Cybersecurity for Nonprofits 101

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Spoofing occurs when someone with malicious intent disguises their identity to gain unauthorized access to systems or data. Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aim to disrupt an organization’s online services by overflowing your system with fake requests. This can be in the form of an email—similar to phishing. Cybersecurity audits.

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Preparing Your Association for AI

Association Analytics

AI has garnered a lot of global and national attention across most industries in recent months. Within just a few months, most associations had publicly posted recommendations and tips, provided amnesty for dues, created policies and procedures, and/or jumped to virtual tools to continue providing events.

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Digital Priorities the Mission-Driven Sector Must Address in 2024

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While experimentation is still a good way to learn, the potential and pitfalls of AI demand that every organization get serious about strategies, policies, and approaches that can steer them through decisions on AI. The term encompasses a wide range of tools and practices that can support an equally wide range of work and strategies.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

An acceptable usage policy (AUP) is a set of rules applied by the. owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. In short, a policy ensures that every user understands that. Who should develop your policy? What It Is.

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