Posts belonging to Category Nonprofit Boards

Financial Oversight

For just shy of eight years, I wrote a column for The News Tribune on nonprofit topics. Many of the columns focused on governance, and on the board financial responsibilities, so we’ll be reprinting selected ones from time to time. The term “best practices” is commonly heard in the nonprofit sector these days. Several years [...]

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Financial Oversight

I’m happy to point out that The Nonprofit Center’s Executive Director Elizabeth Heath has a guest column in the Philanthropy Journal’s Finance and Accounting 2010 special report. In her Piece, Financial oversight: Making it real, Liz writes about the nonprofit board’s responsibility to understand the finances, I cannot count the number of times I have [...]

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Form 990 To-Do List

Ready for the updated form 990? Is this the year you need to file it? Even if the phrase, “updated form 990″ wants to make you stick your finger in your ears and say, “lalalalalalalalalalala” you can still go through this list and make sure your organization is more prepared than it is right now [...]

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