What Jeff Bezos Can Teach Arts Organizations
Recently, Business Insider published Jeff Bezos’ latest letter to Amazon shareholders. As I read it, I kept thinking how applicable his words are to arts organizations. As arts administrators, we often exist in our own nonprofit arts organization bubble and compare ourselves only to what others in our industry are doing. Of course, it is important to know what our peers are doing, but this is a dangerous practice because there is so much to be ...
Protecting Yourself Against Embezzling Grannies
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Every couple months the treasurer tells our board of directors how easy it would be to embezzle funds due to the lack of sufficient checks and balances. She is especially wary of the fact that current technology allows her to have the bank generate checks at her request rather than having to issue a physical check. The organization is lucky because she has taken the lead on creating better processes and policies, including moving the ...
You Want To Be A Non-Profit? You Have To Start Acting Like One
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You know how they say you need to dress for the job you want rather than the job you have? In much the same way, this is true for pursuing non-profit status. A few years back Ellis Carter listed the top five mistakes people make when creating a non-profit organization. Among the mistakes were familiar topics like not copying another organization’s bylaws; using your state template for incorporation (doesn’t have the info the IRS wants); ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…