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

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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.

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A Nonprofit’s Guide to Problem-Solving: Be More Painkiller, Less Vitamin

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Here is a nonprofit’s guide to problem-solving. Author of the international bestselling book “Sell Like Crazy,” Sabri Suby, recently wrote about how brands can be a ray of sunshine in the current storm. They aren’t positioning themselves as a solution to a burning problem. Nonprofits can spend less while getting more.

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How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle

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To mitigate risk throughout your grant cycle, you need to know your grantees through relationships and documentation, support their internal controls, and set up a process for whistleblower complaints. Encourage Grantee Internal Controls All well-run organizations have standard best practices that employees follow.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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Scan the Landscape Internal collaboration is important, but it is only the beginning. Too often plans are reviewed at a staff meeting with little to no explanation about what the various objectives mean for distinct functional areas and how they connect to each other.” Martech changes overnight.

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Amnesty International at 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Earlier this year, I spoke at the 50th Anniversary Annual General Meeting of Amnesty International (AI). Over the years, AI has altered and expanded its mandate to address new human rights issues and to ease the creative tension between the demands of its grassroots membership and its organizational policy.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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And, most importantly, we discovered new strategies for adaptation and problem solving. It is also a fun and effective way to ease into conversations about communication, behavior, trust, and other interpersonal issues that are important to keeping culture on track.” I urge CEOs to be flexible on this issue.

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Navigating the nonprofit RFP process

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When I asked her to describe the problem, here’s what she said: I’ve never done this before, and I feel like I’m making it up as I go along. Lisa was losing confidence in herself—but the RFP process she was using was the real cause of her problems. The CRM providers have questions that I can’t answer.

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