An Organization Made up of Organizations
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Grant Writing Isn't Overhead
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You Got the Grant - Now What?
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Biggest Lessons for Successful NP Leadership
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Deadly Weaknesses of Non Profit Security
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Biggest Mistakes Boards & Executives Make
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Preventing Fraud in Small-Staff Associations
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The goal of Bristol Organizations is to provide service and non-profit Organizations in the NE Tennessee and SW Virginia, the best possible avenue for mutual communication and the greatest exposure to the community.
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by Joan Garry
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When I first arrived from the leadership team at MTV to begin my first nonprofit executive director gig at GLAAD, I thought, “I’ve got this.” I had been in charge, supervised folks, managed to revenue targets.
You know – all the corporate things.
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A week into it, my head was spinning. I said to my wife. “I’m not in Kansas anymore.”
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Of course there were similarities, but I grew to understand (and quickly) that the model is quite different. Really different. And I wish more people understood this. To continue reading about these Lessons for Success............ Click Here.
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By: Matt Leighty
A few years ago, I sat in a small nonprofit office while the executive director called a staff member whose father had just had a heart attack. The staffer was at the hospital. He was the only one who knew the password to the grants portal, and a deadline was looming.
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Another time, a board member emailed me the same grant opportunity for the eighth year in a row — forgetting that the organization had never been eligible. I’ve seen nonprofits miss deadlines for their largest funders — not because they didn’t care, but because they didn’t have a system.
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These stories aren’t rare. After two decades in the nonprofit sector, I’ve come to recognize them as normal for small and midsize organizations — the trusted, embedded, essential players in their communities who are often expected to make do with duct tape and goodwill.
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To continue reading about this subject............ Click Here
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Let’s imagine all our efforts have succeeded: After a lot of hard work and coordination between the grant writing team and the CFO, your nonprofit has been awarded the grant.1 There’s probably time for some celebration, but then the challenge of nonprofit grant management and administration begins.
Like in the other parts of the grant proposal process, the CFO plays a central role in carrying out the organization’s many responsibilities in its collaboration with the funder.
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So, what should the CFO be doing in helping to administer the grant? Well, there are four main areas in which the CFO can help properly administer the grant..... Click Here.
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BY LELAND FOSTER
While good leadership can help employees understand the need for security measures and encourage compliance, bad leadership can foster employee discontent, conflict with the IT department, and the failure of even the best of plans. Executives must have a good understanding of what computer security risks are out there for nonprofits so they can guide the organization in evaluating how much risk the organization can afford. The IT department can educate and give advice, but decisions and support must come from the highest level.
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To continue reading about Non Profit Security....... Click Here.
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By Jan Masaoka
"To err is human," and as we all ruefully know, nonprofit board members and executive directors are typically human. Here are some of the biggest mistakes we make both for Boards and for Executives. To read more....... Click Here.
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By Emily Bratcher
Some ways that small-staff associations can protect their financial assets and deter fraud by gathering support outside of the finance department. The bottom line: Don’t go it alone.
Segregation of Duties (SOD) is one of the fundamental elements of financial risk management.
The idea is that financial responsibilities are shared among people and departments to ensure that an association’s assets are safeguarded and that fraud is deterred—and hopefully prevented. To continue reading about Preventing Fraud............. Click Here.
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