Passion Turned Profession · Book X · The documents
Nonprofit Bylaws, Budgets, and Policies
Every other book explains what to write. This one reproduces the finished document and annotates it.
7 chapters · 81 pages
What it is
Articles, bylaws, minutes, a mission statement in three drafts, a theory of change on one page, an intake form, a case for support, a gift acknowledgment, a chart of accounts, a year-one budget that reconciles, a reserve policy, a job description, an offer letter, a contractor agreement, nine short policies that replaced a fifty-one page handbook, a board calendar, an executive director evaluation, an emergency succession plan, a compliance calendar, a data inventory. Every one printed complete.
One is a single board meeting recorded twice, on facing pages, so that the difference between adequate and inadequate minutes is visible at a glance. Another is a first-year budget that balances, which is less common in published examples than it ought to be.
The founding documents take an afternoon and govern for a decade. Nothing else you write will have that ratio. Book X · Nonprofit Bylaws, Budgets, and Policies
Contents
What is inside.
- 01
Getting started
The founding paperwork and a mission statement you can stand behind. 4 documents.
- 02
Describing your work
Your program on paper: what you do, for whom, and how you will know it works. 5 documents.
- 03
Asking for money
The case, the letter and the proposal, plus the donor paperwork the law expects. 5 documents.
- 04
Managing the money
Accounts, a first-year budget, board reporting, controls and reserves. 5 documents.
- 05
Hiring and managing people
From job description to performance conversation. 8 documents.
- 06
Running the board
Roles, calendar, agendas, minutes, evaluation and succession. 7 documents.
- 07
Staying compliant
Calendars, retention, policies and a checklist of records to keep in one place. 6 documents.
The contents
Every document, by name.
All forty documents are listed by name on their own page.
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