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Association CEO Agreement
A model employment agreement form for use by trade associations, professional societies, or other nonprofit membership organizations in contracting with their chief employed officers for permanent engagements.
Association Checklist (09/06)
Association Credentialing Information
Credentialing: associations' perspective
Auditor RFP - Sample
Avoiding Fraud
The most common method of fraud detection (almost half of all cases) is a tip or complaint from an employee, vendor, customer or anonymous informant. About one-fifth of all cases are detected by accident, another one-fifth by internal audit and about one-eighth by external audit.
CEO Performance Evaluations
By Bob Harris, CAE
Create a Survival Notebook
Nobody thought the warning of a flash flood would impact the association office. Usually that “happens to somebody else.” Flash floods would slow the drive home…but certainly not destroy our office!
Employee Evaluations Templates
By Bob Harris, CAE
Financial and Legal Status
In oversimplified terms, a commercial entity exists to realize a profit; a not-for-profit organization exists to meet some need of the community of its members. A not-for-profit organization with sufficient resources to carry out is objectives has no need to make a profit or have an excess of income over expenses.
Freshman Board Members (09/06)
Governoring Documents (09/06)
Leadership Assessment Criteria
Peer Pressure: The Value of a Government Relations Peer Review Program
SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL
Personal Liability for Corp Debts
When the address of the registered agent of a nonprofit corporation changes and the Secretary of State is not informed of the new location, under certain circumstances the officers and directors can become individually liable for some association debts.
Super Trends and Mapping the Future of Your Association
Using a “strategic radar” model, Albrecht and his team surveyed ASAE members and scored more than 200 trends affecting eight sectors of our business environment: customer, competitor, economic, technological, social, political, legal and geophysical. After sorting through the survey responses, eight “super trends” were identified to correspond with each of the eight sectors in the strategic radar model.
Tech Challenged CEO
A friend of mine recently became the CEO of a nonprofit organization. She’s a person who appreciates technology but is not a technologist, so the question came up as to what she --- and other CEOs in similar circumstances --- might need to know about information technology. For example, would you know what to do if your IT person had to take an unplanned leave of absence?
Ten Guidelines for Engaging Association Lawyers
While there may be no completely right or wrong way to go about locating and hiring an attorney or law firm to represent a nonprofit membership organization, some guidelines can be helpful. Part of the process includes recognizing unique requirements that may apply to associations with a need for expertise in particular areas of the law. However, general guidelines apply to nearly every no9nprofit organization and this article describes some of the most important ones.
Who's Watching Your Bank Account
In today’s world of convenience, electronic bill payments make it easy for consumers to pay their bills quickly and on time. Electronic bill payments are non-check withdrawals from the bank account that are normally originated over the telephone or via the Internet. When you put the same conditions in the association’s business office, this can lead to a break down in internal controls.
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