by Kari Anderson | Apr 17, 2019 | Organizational Planning, Policies, Staff topics, Volunteers
Volunteers can make it possible for your nonprofit organization to deliver programs and services to more people and at lower costs. An additional value, sometimes not considered, is the time itself. In-Kind Contribution If you calculate the value of volunteer time,...
by Kari Anderson | Jan 30, 2019 | Events, Fundraising, Gifts, Organizational Planning, Policies
How are you going to increase the number of donors this year? Expanding your donor base should be an integral part of your fundraising efforts. There are many ways to find new donors. Call on your Board members to help. Look to your current donors and use peer-to-peer...
by Kari Anderson | Aug 22, 2018 | Policies, Recordkeeping
Managing the documents that are a part of your nonprofit organization can be daunting, particularly for nonprofits that have been around awhile! With advancing technology that allows us to digitize and store documents electronically, the need for keeping paper copies...
by Kari Anderson | Aug 15, 2018 | Evaluations, legal, Policies, Recordkeeping, Staff topics
Managing employees is an important part of your nonprofit. The documents relating to employee management, thus, are another important set of documents for your nonprofit—much like the organizational documents we explored last week. These documents, however, are...
by Kari Anderson | May 9, 2018 | legal, Policies
This week’s policy topic is the Whistleblower Policy. A whistleblower is someone who reports an activity that he or she considers to be illegal or dishonest. The whistleblower is not responsible for investigating the activity or for determining fault or corrective...
by Kari Anderson | May 2, 2018 | Board Topics, Policies
There are some nonprofit policies with extra importance because they relate to your organization’s 990 tax form—one of these is the conflict of interest policy. The 990 asks if your organization has a conflict of interest policy. It is good to be able to say, “Yes!”...
