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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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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. Frame the Issues Risk isn’t on most directors’ list of favorite topics for discussion. Prevent Internal Injuries The first category includes the situations that we can, and should, prevent. But risk doesn’t always come with a dollar sign attached.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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Less than stellar board performance might not have been an issue. My colleague Joanna Pineda, Founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. Don’t muddle trivialities, like how to fill out a reimbursement form, with significant issues like these. In a kinder, gentler marketplace coasting was allowed.

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Unhelpful Management Practices: Navigating the Impact of Unchecked Mean Girl Dynamics

Blue Avocado

As a new member of the agency’s internal communications team, I was asked to write a press release to circulate immediately, and I did just that. Writing the press release without her input or consent was like calling her baby ugly. Press release, media release. Should I bring this issue up to executive management?

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What Communication Professionals Can Learn From The Eras Tour

M+R

Despite containing what you know to be groundbreaking new data and super useful takeaways for the press, it can feel tough to find new ways to engage audiences when releasing the same report year after year. For nonprofits looking to engage the press, first look where you are already engaging other audiences and stakeholders.

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Issue 8 of NTEN:Change: The "Collaboration" Issue

NTEN

Besides inter-organizational collaboration, nonprofits also continually work on improving internal efficiencies and innovations; we're always looking for ways to work smarter, faster, and with more impact. Feature: Tools for Project Collaboration Management ," from Idealware's Kyle Andrei.

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

News articles on your website can serve the same function as blog posts on your website provided they are dated and written like a blog post, not a press release. 6) Share commentary and CTAs about current issues in the news. Second, search engines are consistently searching the web to index fresh content.

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