article thumbnail

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

sgEngage

The annual financial audit is a great time to review your statements through a risk lens and search the corners of your financial statements for long-forgotten issues that could contaminate an entire balance sheet. As part of your regular discussion with your auditor, preferably at the start of your fiscal year, review your internal controls.

article thumbnail

Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

.orgSource

These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. Frame the Issues Risk isn’t on most directors’ list of favorite topics for discussion. Prevent Internal Injuries The first category includes the situations that we can, and should, prevent. But risk doesn’t always come with a dollar sign attached.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

Less than stellar board performance might not have been an issue. My colleague Joanna Pineda, Founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. Don’t muddle trivialities, like how to fill out a reimbursement form, with significant issues like these. In a kinder, gentler marketplace coasting was allowed.

Mentoring 221
article thumbnail

Issue 8 of NTEN:Change: The "Collaboration" Issue

NTEN

Besides inter-organizational collaboration, nonprofits also continually work on improving internal efficiencies and innovations; we're always looking for ways to work smarter, faster, and with more impact. Feature: Tools for Project Collaboration Management ," from Idealware's Kyle Andrei.

Issue 76
article thumbnail

10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

News articles on your website can serve the same function as blog posts on your website provided they are dated and written like a blog post, not a press release. 6) Share commentary and CTAs about current issues in the news. Second, search engines are consistently searching the web to index fresh content.

Practice 352
article thumbnail

The Content Curation Issue: NTEN:Change Six is Live

NTEN

When our editorial committee decided on “Content Curation” as the overall theme of this issue when planning back in 2011, we knew that it would be an important topic for the nonprofit sector, but we didn’t anticipate that, in some ways, 2012 would turn out to be the year of content curation , as Beth Kanter predicted in January.

Issue 78
article thumbnail

Winning Elections Without Losing Everything: A conversation between The Othering and Belonging Institute’s john a. powell and M+R Win’s Christian LoBue

M+R

powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy. Please join a conversation between The Othering and Belonging Institute’s john a. Register here.