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Authors: Peggy M. Jackson
ISBN-13: 9780471790372, ISBN-10: 0471790370
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: August 2006
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Peggy M. Jackson

PEGGY M. JACKSON, DPA, CPCU, is a consultant and nationally recognized lecturer in risk management, business continuity planning, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. She is a principal with Adjunct LLC and a founding partner of the Fogarty, Jackson & Associates Consulting Group in San Francisco, California. Dr. Jackson has coauthored several books published by Wiley, including Managing Risk in Nonprofit Organizations, Sarbanes-Oxley for Nonprofits, and Sarbanes-Oxley and Nonprofit Management: Skills, Techniques, Methods. She divides her time and consulting practice between her homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Washington DC metro area.

Book Synopsis

The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) bar has been raised-is your nonprofit board up to the task?

Nonprofit boards are in a fishbowl of scrutiny much like their private sector counterparts. With recent media focus on investigations of false charities, and more disturbingly, of household-name nonprofits that have abused donor trust by misdirecting donations, the heat is on the nonprofit board to rehabilitate its organizational profile.

Encouraging boards to reclaim their role as the ultimate authority within their nonprofit, nationally recognized nonprofit expert Dr. Peggy Jackson supplies tips for leveraging the power and value of SOX requirements within the nonprofit organization. Containing sample documents, forms, and checklists to introduce best practices into any nonprofit organization, this complete guide is a practical, hands-on tool for equipping your nonprofit's board toward a higher quality of control.

Relevant for both the large and small nonprofit organization, this must-have book effectively brings pragmatic clarity to a complex topic, and explains how to blend Sarbanes-Oxley requirements into the nonprofit organization, with topics including:

  • Common factors that contribute to nonprofit board dysfunction
  • Moving nonprofit governance into the twenty-first century
  • Intervention techniques for moving your board forward
  • Establishing strategies for lasting change
  • Creating a platinum standard for governance

Helping your nonprofit board understand and implement SOX requirements, Sarbanes-Oxley for Nonprofit Boards will be indispensable as a guide and will reinforce your nonprofit's financial structure and reputation.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1History and legislative background of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and state nonprofit accountability legislation1
Ch. 2Moving nonprofit governance into the twenty-first century21
Ch. 3Leveraging Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and best practices to move your board to a higher level of performance43
Ch. 4SOX as a cure for the "leave your brains at the door" syndrome57
Ch. 5Moving the board forward : intervention techniques77
Ch. 6Start at the beginning93
Ch. 7Establishing a platinum standard for governance107
Ch. 8SOX and the really small nonprofit board139
App. ALetter from Senator Grassley to the acting chair of the American university board of trustees151
App. BWhistleblower protection policy157
App. CRisk management plan and business continuity plan159
App. DTechnology policy165
App. EReview of internal controls report and recommendations167
App. FBoard of directors - governance profile and performance expectations169
App. GConflict-of-interest policy175
App. HCode of ethics for board and senior management179

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