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Non-profit/Church Wiki
Non-profit organizations and churches have unique growth, management and accounting challenges. Volunteers have expectations just as real as pay checks. Donors need to be reassured about financial accountability and receiving timely acknowledgment of receipts. The Non-profit/Church Wiki is your place to start with the fundamentals of growing your organization..

Resources to Get Your Church On Board with Technology

Church Crunch (check out Top Ten Things People Want to Do on Your Church Website)

Developing Great Board Members
A good executive director or pastor works to develop healthy and functioning boards. Governing boards are the skeleton on which everything else hangs. If the board is in deep conflict, neglected or otherwise not functioning, you can be certain the problems will spread and become endemic. Church boards (within the boundaries of denominational structure) need these steps documented as much as any other organization.

What a Board Member Needs to KnowKey Steps
Review Materials
  • Job description and contact info of board members and staff
  • Bylaws, annual reports, personnel and fiscal policies, audits, budgets and recent financial statements, board meeting minutes
  • Executive Director's/Pastor's work plan
  • Outstanding funding applications
Meeting with Exec Director/Pastor and Board Chair
  • Review of materials and responsiblities
  • Board confidentiality policies
  • Tour of office and introduction to staff
Increase Performance
  • Assign and support specific projects
  • Publicly recognize effort
  • Social events that include both board and staff
Remove ineffective members (responsibility of board chair)
  • Bylaws specify minimum meeting attendance without reason
  • Re-elect only productive board members
  • Direct contact with inactive board members to find what the problem really is

*This chart is based upon How to Manage an Effective Non-Profit Organization by Michael Sand. Check this book for lots more helpful information.
**This chart supported and modified by 15 years of personal experience with non-profits and churches - Dennis

Suggested Annual Financial Calendar for Non-profit Organizations
Topic soon to be created, contributions welcomed.

How to Track Donor Contributions in QuickBooks
Topic soon to be created, contributions welcomed.
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