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Encourage Use of Your Employee Assistance Program

An employee assistance program (EAP) is an employer sponsored program designed to assist employees in resolving personal problems, such as substance dependence, financial or legal woes, or mental health issues.
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Fiscal Oversight is Nonprofit Board’s Responsibility

Even though nonprofits don’t face the same government regulations as for-profit companies, fiscal oversight is the board's responsibility.  Donors and other watchdog groups pay close attention, and the media is quick to pounce on rumors of fraud in the nonprofit sector.
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The Importance of Up-to-Date Job Descriptions

Up-to-date, accurate job descriptions form the foundation of every organization’s staffing efforts. Without clear, focused documentation of what each position does, you may struggle to hire and retain good employees
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Is it Time for Some Spring Cleaning of Your Nonprofit’s Programs?

If your not-for-profit’s program lineup has remained unchanged for a couple of years, some of them might be due for replacement.  Consider using the tradition of spring cleaning to review and update your offerings.
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How Can Your Nonprofit Benefit by Embracing the Cloud?

Many nonprofits struggle with technology because of smaller staffs and limited IT expertise. For them, "embracing the cloud" is a solution that’s easy to adopt, and could result in better control over technology costs and greater efficiency and productivity.
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Boosting the Matching Gifts Your Nonprofit Receives

Are you doing everything you can to educate your financial supporters and their employers about matching gifts? Corporate gift-matching enables donors to make larger contributions than they can manage on their own. Knowing their gift will be matched, they might even bump up the amount. Therefore, do everything you can
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Can Employees’ Off-Work Behavior Put Your Company at Risk?

the organization — even when he or she isn’t on the job. However, whether you should take an adverse employment action (such as suspension or termination) against an employee for an outside-of-work incident is a delicate matter.
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Making the Most of Your Nonprofit’s Internal Audit Function

The key role of a not-for-profit’s internal auditors was once limited largely to testing financial and compliance controls and reporting their findings to the organization’s leadership. But today, with their cross-departmental perspective, internal audit staff (whether employees or outside consultants) can help anticipate and mitigate a variety of risks, improve
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Putting a Number on Employee Turnover

Retaining employees reduces substantial recruiting costs. Unfortunately, many employers still find themselves seemingly helpless to stop the random and sometimes constant departure of skilled workers. One way to diagnose the severity of your turnover trouble is to put a number on it.
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Is Your Nonprofit Ready to Hire New Staffers?

Yet plenty of nonprofits are still hesitating to add employees to the payroll. If your organization is on the sidelines but thinking about hiring in the near future, the following three questions can help you decide.
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Softening the Hard Edges of Technical Staff

Technological hardware keeps many organizations running these days. Unfortunately, hard-mannered technical employees can be bad for business.
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Joining the Effort to End Sexual Harassment

From the world of entertainment to Capitol Hill, allegations of sexual harassment have disrupted the status quo and made headlines at a remarkable rate. Meanwhile, on social media, the #MeToo movement has sparked widespread discussion.
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Which Board Structure is Right for Your Nonprofit?

Not-for-profit boards can vary widely, with different responsibilities and expectations for their members. The structure, for example, can be anything from a less-involved group that takes its direction from the organization’s leader, to a fully functioning, hands-on board that essentially runs the nonprofit, to boards that fit somewhere in between.
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Setting Up Your Company’s Fraud Hotline

When employees steal, their colleagues are more likely to be aware of it than the managers in the executive suite, but they may be reluctant to “rat out” fellow workers.
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Conflict-of-Interest Checklist for Nonprofits

Not-for-profit board officers, directors, trustees and key employees must avoid conflicts of interest because it’s their duty to do so. Any direct or indirect financial interest in a transaction or arrangement that might benefit one of these individuals personally could result in the loss of your organization’s tax-exempt status —
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