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Reclaiming the Power of Professionalism: A One-Hour Guide to Boosting Your Career with Simple Forgotten Practices
New professionals, get ready! In one hour or less, you can apply a handful of simple, largely forgotten practices that could dramatically boost your career. In this little book, Mike Batts draws from more than 30 years of professional leadership experience to address the growing disconnect between the expectations of employers and the expectations of their new professional employees…
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Church Finance: The Church Leader’s Guide to Financial Operations
“It all starts with mission and purpose.” These opening words by author Mike Batts sum up the proper role of financial administration in the church. Financial administration is a critically important and unique calling. Church Finance: The Church Leader’s Guide to Financial Operations provides you with the information and resources to successfully lead your church’s financial operations in keeping with your church’s unique…
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Nonprofit Finance: The Field Guide for Financial Operations of Ministries, Schools, and Other Public Charities
Financial administration is a critically important and foundational element of a sound and healthy nonprofit. If done poorly, every day can bring a new emergency or crisis, which can impair the credibility of the organization’s message or impede its ability to carry out its mission effectively. That said, Mike Batts’ Nonprofit Finance: The Field Guide for Financial Operations of Ministries, Schools, and…
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Nonprofit Financial Oversight: The Concise and Complete Guide for Boards and Finance Committees
Nonprofit Financial Oversight is designed to serve as a resource for nonprofit board members, officers, finance committee members, audit committee members, and anyone else with financial oversight responsibilities in a nonprofit organization. Special features of the book include sample policies, a sample finance committee charter, audit committee guidelines, and an annual board financial oversight checklist.
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Board Member Orientation: The Concise and Complete Guide to Nonprofit Board Service
Serving on a nonprofit board can be an incredibly rewarding experience for the properly prepared board member. This book is for the generous and busy people who agree to give of their time and talents by serving on nonprofit boards. Nonprofit boards often fail to do a good job of board member orientation for a variety of reasons.
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Client Book RequestBMWL Sample Policies, Whitepapers, and Other Resources
The resources listed below are available exclusively to BMWL clients upon request. If you are a BMWL client, please request a copy of any of the titles listed below.
Client Resource RequestForeign Grantmaking Whitepaper
Personal Use of Employer Owned Vehicles Whitepaper
Sample Capitalization Policy
Sample Conflicts of Interest Policy
Sample Intellectual Property Policy
Sample Gift Acceptance Policy
Sample Policy Regarding Joint Ventures with For-Profit Entities
Key Data Security Risk Management Questions for Nonprofit Leaders Whitepaper
Racial Nondiscrimination Requirements for Tax-Exempt Private Schools under Federal Tax Law Whitepaper
Sample Spousal Travel Policy
Sample Policy on Dishonesty, Fraud, and Whistleblower Protection
Sample Record Retention Policy
Quid Pro Quo Contributions Whitepaper
Sample Donor Privacy Policy
Sample Grant Procedures Template for Grants to Individuals or Organizations
Sample Policy for Short-Term Mission Trips and Mission Field Assessment Visits
Religious Publishing Activities Whitepaper
Sample Executive Compensation-Setting Policy
Qualified Sponsorship Payments Whitepaper
Sample Travel and Expense Reimbursement Policy
Private Operating Foundation Whitepaper
Various Contribution Acknowledgment Samples
Foreign Earned Income Whitepaper
Sample Master Grant Agreement for Grants to Individuals or Organizations
Synopsis of Self-Dealing Prohibitions Applicable to Private Foundations
Sample Spending Policy for Endowments and Similar Funds
Accountable Plan Whitepaper
BMWL Recommended Compensation Data Sources
Criteria for Excluding Educational Benefits from an Employee's Wages Whitepaper
New Clean Energy Tax Benefits Available to Nonprofits
Internal Financial Audit Checklist for Small Churches
Internal Financial Audit Checklist for Small Nonprofit Organizations
Deputized Fundraising, Restricted Donations, and Designated Net Assets – Tax and Accounting Considerations Whitepaper
Sample Changes to Payee Electronic Payment Accounts Policy
Sample Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy
Sample Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy