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

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In recent years, relationships between nonprofit organizations and their auditors have seen positive change. The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor. Think of your auditors as trusted advisors to assist your organization in achieving its goals.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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I am still evaluating the lessons learned. Isolation taught us the value of the relationships and the technology that sustained our communities. But the relationships we cultivated over years were critical in the early days.” I’ve always understood the importance of relationships,” Kristine noted.

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Rethinking Recruitment and Retention Goals

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As volunteer trends have changed and new generations enter the volunteer force, organizations benefit from taking a broader view of recruitment, expanding the focus both internally and externally, cultivating relationships with potential supporters and deepening relationships with current volunteers.

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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. Program Description. Measurement Plan.

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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. Early in our relationship, my executive coach reminded me that every CEO gets the organization they deserve.

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