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7 Step Policy Guide for Creating Operating Reserves

sgEngage

With an understandable and accessible operating reserves policy, your team, Board, and donors know the specific reasons you would use your operating reserves and the exact amount that needs to always be in the fund. 7 Steps for Developing a Policy to Manage Operating Reserves.

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Phonathons: The Fundraiser’s Ultimate Guide & 15+ Top Tips

Double the Donation

We suggest that you: Identify any knowledge gaps and situations where additional training is needed. Consider these four components of effective matching gift phonathon training: Materials: Document how callers should ask about matching gifts and the process by which they should share company rules, guidelines, and instructions.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Have a formal policy about sending after hours emails. Some organizations have explicit policies such as “no email between 7pm-7am. Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate?

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.

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Notes from Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp

Have Fun - Do Good

What kind of knowledge does the staff already possess? There is a 4:1 ratio. They sign a sexual harassment policy document, fill out a demographic profile, and sign an agreement between themselves and Project Open Hand. What coalitions is the organization a part of? Who are the organization's constituents? Establish you goals.