Smart things from other parts of the web. More good blog posts will be found at the end of this month when the Nonprofit Congress Blog hosts the Nonprofit Blog Carnival. Click through for more details.
Human Resources News For California Nonprofits
Two pieces from What’s New in Employment Law from earlier this year that detail the differences and similarities between California and Federal rules in charts provided by The California Fair Employment and Housing Commission: The comparison between the Federal ADA rules (both new and old) and the California rules and the FMLA and CA’s Family Rights Act and Pregnancy Disability Leave law.
Another post from them details the updates to to CA’s Alternative Work Week law. I like the changes.
Meal and rest period information for employers as a result of a recent court case.
Nonprofit Employment
A great series from Heather Carpenter about getting a job in the charitable sector.
Governance, Legal and Money Issues
From the Nonprofit Law Blog comes this post about the IRS’s latest Workplan. He breaks down what the IRS is looking at as far as charity oversight:
The IRS seems to be warning tax-exempts that the agency will be paying ever closer attention to this sector, particularly the “heavyweights”: hospitals and universities. But that ever closer attention should also include more IRS published guidance, workshops and seminars.
From the Charity Governance Blog come two interesting posts. The first is about a nonprofit suing a board member for not following through on their pledge. Is this something we will see more of?
The second is about the news that several states have raised the dollar thresholds for when nonprofits need to have an audit. I’m of two minds on this. I do agree with him about the benefits of an audit to an organization. But when California established its nonprofit audit threshold in 2004 (opens a PDF document) I was in favor of a higher dollar threshold (and the one we now have) because as one CPA mentioned at the state hearings on the proposal, there are just not enough qualified CPA’s to do that many audits. No offense to my auditor friends but I have heard tales of well meaning auditors who had no clue what to do with the nonprofit they were working with. I think in those cases no audit is better than a bad audit.
And finally a call to arms from the Nonprofit Assistance Fund: Think your organization might be in trouble in this economy? Don’t wait to do something about it.
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