Incorporated association consultancy
Over a long career in NGOs, Not for Profits and Management
I have done quite a lot of work with incorporated associations as a volunteer and an employee.
I have written a lot of policies and procedures and filled in a lot of returns and forms
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A complaints process for BrisLETs
A complaints process for BrisLETs On our website we acknowledge the need for a complaint/mediation policy and announce our intention to attend to this as resources become available Well, it’s a good day to start, I’m not sure of a process but here are some resources
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What are policies and procedures?
Policies are a set of agreed guidelines about what and why our organisation does what it doesProcedures are about how to do these things. They need to be documented and published and they are usually open to change as circumstance change Writing policies and procedures usually takes some particular skills and all stakeholders should be […]
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How should we manage passwords ?
I think -roy- next step This needs be documented as a procedure put into actionandIn a timely manner, procedures should be approved by the MC and published as part of the association’s documentation (updated oct 31)(updated jan 29)
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keeping records on forums
I’m not a lawyer but it appears to me that these forums are official records of the proceedings of a legally incorporated association. and that falsifying records made in this place, like deleting someone’s comments would be naughty. So how should admins moderate comments that are abusive or attack other people? 1) if a group […]
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Digital Signatures are pretty easy
At base, we can just use a scanned handwritten signature, like this.
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We need a members-only area?
Learn how to set up a membership area on your website using built-in features of WordPress in this nifty step-by-step tutorial! Let’s say that you (or your client) want to set up a membership area on a WordPress site with little to no money to spend on web development (sounds familiar?) Whenever I hear someone mention that they want to set up a members-only area on their site (it happens a lot when you mingle with businesses who want to go ‘fully digital’, trust me!), the first thing I want to do is find out what they need and want to achieve. Do…
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How to work together in small groups of volunteers ?
I am thinking today about how to work together in small groups of volunteers Specifically in the emerging BrisLETS MC The first point for me is that we are volunteers so “directives” “orders” and coercion are a shallow bluff. If we want someone’s cooperation we need to invite it. It’s much “easier” when you hold […]