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Interview with Bryan Stevenson: On Juneteenth and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. DT: In your book, we learn that you found your calling quite young when you visited a death row inmate during your summer internship for law school.

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Creating the Foundation for a Best-In-Class Nonprofit Finance Team

sgEngage

To avoid hiring unqualified staff, incorporate accounting and technical skill assessments as part of the interview process or seek assistance from qualified accounting professionals in vetting potential candidates. When filling finance department roles, contract or hire staff with appropriate education and experience.

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The 10 roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors

Get Fully Funded

Ensure Legal and Ethical Integrity and Maintain Accountability The Board is responsible for making sure that the nonprofit operates with the laws that govern it at the local, state, and national level. Ultimately, your Board is responsible for making sure that the nonprofit is in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.

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An Alternative to Writing RFPs for Nonprofit Websites and Technology

ASU Lodestar Center

We believe, for example, that the moment an organization needs a new website, rather than write an RFP, nonprofit professionals should spend their time identifying and interviewing several web and marketing agencies. Once you begin interviewing, a nonprofit should relax and allow the agency to guide the process.

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Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

sgEngage

Across the board, the funders I interviewed stressed the importance of their relationships with their grantees, both for identifying and determining how to respond to risks. Changes in laws and regulations or in political regimes can rapidly turn what used to be a safe situation into an unsafe one.

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Whom Should You Trust to Help with Your Nonprofit?

ASU Lodestar Center

Many law firms, for instance, require their employees to do pro bono hours, which helps with their branding. Your employees don’t all have to be experts on all your issues, but it helps to understand the limits of their knowledge and how they deal with it. Not such common knowledge. Do they follow up after the interview?

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Sarah Davies: Intellectual Property Legislation with Human Rights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, I discovered Sarah Davies of FreedomforIP and after listening to her elevator pitch online from the IgniteSeattle event, I asked her for an interview. I've studied intellectual property law extensively, but only in an academic context; I am not a practicing lawyer. He is also a professor at Stanford Law School.