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Compliance and Recordkeeping

The document outlines a simple compliance and recordkeeping checklist for your nonprofit organization, covering areas such as timesheets, board meetings, federal, state, and local level regulations, donor acknowledgments, and recordkeeping guidelines for financial and personnel files.

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Sample Board Financial Policy

This document provides key sections such as board report guidelines, reserves policies, and capitalization thresholds, to include in a board approved financial policy.

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Questions to Ask a Potential Fiscal Sponsor

Walks you through the questions to ask and the answers you should get when trying to pick a fiscal sponsor.

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Projecting Reserves Worksheet

This worksheet helps you know what reserves you attracted with and project where you will end the year based on your budget.

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Monthly General Ledger Review

Trains you to review your general ledger to ensure that your bookkeeping is accurate.

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Grant Tracking Spreadsheet

This spreadsheet helps you plan to spend your grant funds over their full time period even when they cross over your fiscal year.

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Lobbying Tracking

Here are a few tools to keep track of your lobbying activities to easily report on your form 990.

The first is a timesheet so you can report on your staff’s lobbying activities. And the second is a spreadsheet to track all your lobbying expenses. Keep the IRS off your back and stay engaged in the issues that matter! Download the tools today.

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Cashflow Spreadsheet

If you’ve got less than 3 months of cash on hand, use this Cashflow spreadsheet to help you manage your money.

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