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Conflicts of Interest
Leadership can’t always avoid a conflict. That’s why a Conflicts of Interest policy and disclosure documents help protect your organization’s assets and reputation’s interests.
Disasters and Emergencies
Are you ready when a disaster strikes? This provides guides on ways to prepare and a resource to be notified if a threat is headed your way.
Living Wage Calculator
The tool helps individuals, communities, and employers determine a local wage rate that allows residents to meet minimum standards of living.
Long Term Disability Coverage
What if your pastor could no longer work? How to include this in your pastor’s benefits and strategy tips.
Lead Pastor Evaluation Template
A template to use for your annual evaluation of your Lead Pastor.
Employee Handbooks
It’s more important than ever for employers to clearly communicate their expectations to their employees.
One way to do this is to develop and distribute an employment handbook. The purpose of an employment handbook is to provide guidelines regarding the expectations that you, the employer, have established for employee performance.
Internal Control Checklist
Recognizing Warning Signs and Preventing Problem Situations in Small Organizations.
Ministry Offboarding Toolkit
Best Practices when Communicating with and Offboarding an employee.
Oregon Paid Leave Program Comparison
Paid Leave Oregon and the Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries created this chart as a general program comparison.
Sexual and Gender Identity Institute
The mission of the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute is, from a Christian worldview, to further our understanding of sexual and gender identity, and the intersection of these identities with religious identity, and to be a resource to the church and to the broader culture. We do this through research, training, and consultation.
The Costs of Free Work: Legal Issues with Volunteers
This article discusses some legal issues that can arise with respect to the use of volunteers and how non-profit organizations can navigate those issues to avoid liability.
Gifts of Property: Help Donors Get it Right
Three examples demonstrate how to substantiate donations of land and buildings in accordance with tax law.
Copyright Dilemma:Volunteers and Unpaid Interns
Ministries desire healthy relationships with volunteers and unpaid interns. A possible area where these relationships can break down is over intellectual property. Many things can qualify as intellectual property, including a process for evaluating claims, a secret formula, a statue commissioned by a non-profit, or even a novel. Here, we’ll focus on copyrights.
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 mission and purpose.
Minister’s Tax Guide
2021 Tax Returns Guide - Includes sample tax returns for both active and retired ministers and step-by-step instructions for each.
Safe Place
Safe Places provides an extensive roadmap for churches to protect young people, train staff and volunteers, establish policies and procedures, and demonstrate integrity and accountability to families.