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Featured Book Resources

  • Reclaiming the Power of Professionalism Book Front Cover
    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 Second Edition Front Cover by Michael E. Batts, CPA
    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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  • Cover of "Nonprofit Finance" by Michael E. Batts, featuring a colorful pie chart and text about financial operations for nonprofits.
    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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  • Cover of "Nonprofit Financial Oversight" by Michael E. Batts, featuring a blue background and a yellow starburst highlighting included resources.
    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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  • Cover of "Board Member Orientation" by Michael E. Batts, featuring a group of diverse professionals in business attire, with a "Best Seller" ribbon.
    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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BMWL Sample Policies, Whitepapers, and Other Resources

  • Sample Conflicts of Interest Policy
  • Sample Key Executive Compensation-Setting Policy
  • Accountable Plan Whitepaper
  • Internal Financial Audit Checklist for Small Churches
  • Internal Financial Audit Checklist for Small Nonprofit Organizations
  • Sample Policy for Changes to Payee Electronic Payment Accounts
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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.

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  1. Foreign Grantmaking Whitepaper

  2. Personal Use of Employer Owned Vehicles Whitepaper

  3. Sample Capitalization Policy

  4. Sample Conflicts of Interest Policy

  5. Sample Intellectual Property Policy

  6. Sample Gift Acceptance Policy

  7. Sample Policy Regarding Joint Ventures with For-Profit Entities

  8. Key Data Security Risk Management Questions for Nonprofit Leaders Whitepaper

  9. Racial Nondiscrimination Requirements for Tax-Exempt Private Schools under Federal Tax Law Whitepaper

  10. Sample Spousal Travel Policy

  11. Sample Policy on Dishonesty, Fraud, and Whistleblower Protection

  12. Sample Record Retention Policy

  13. Quid Pro Quo Contributions Whitepaper

  14. Sample Donor Privacy Policy

  15. Sample Grant Procedures Template for Grants to Individuals or Organizations

  16. Sample Policy for Short-Term Mission Trips and Mission Field Assessment Visits

  17. Religious Publishing Activities Whitepaper

  18. Sample Executive Compensation-Setting Policy

  19. Qualified Sponsorship Payments Whitepaper

  20. Sample Travel and Expense Reimbursement Policy

  21. Private Operating Foundation Whitepaper

  22. Various Contribution Acknowledgment Samples

  23. Foreign Earned Income Whitepaper

  24. Sample Master Grant Agreement for Grants to Individuals or Organizations

  25. Synopsis of Self-Dealing Prohibitions Applicable to Private Foundations

  26. Sample Spending Policy for Endowments and Similar Funds

  27. Accountable Plan Whitepaper

  28. BMWL Recommended Compensation Data Sources

  29. Criteria for Excluding Educational Benefits from an Employee's Wages Whitepaper

  30. New Clean Energy Tax Benefits Available to Nonprofits

  31. Internal Financial Audit Checklist for Small Churches

  32. Internal Financial Audit Checklist for Small Nonprofit Organizations

  33. Deputized Fundraising, Restricted Donations, and Designated Net Assets – Tax and Accounting Considerations Whitepaper

  34. Sample Changes to Payee Electronic Payment Accounts Policy

  35. Sample Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy

  36. Sample Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy