What Are “Post-COVID Conditions (Long COVID)?” According to the CDC, post-COVID conditions are “a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people can experience four or more weeks after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19.”
What is the role of the board?
Question: My board chair is questioning a recent decision I made about a staff member’s performance. I thought supervising staff was my job. Can she, for example, tell me I have to reinstate him after I fired him? Answer: This
1099s for Consumers?
Question: As we are assisting consumers with disabilities using COVID CARES Act funds, do we need to send the consumers a 1099 if the total for 2021 is over $600.00? IRS doesn’t just say that all charitable payments to individuals
Brief financial updates
CFDA (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance) numbers quietly disappeared and were replaced with Assistance Living Numbers. Let your search engine track down “Why Unrestricted Funds Matter”, a great article on the benefits of unrestricted funds. Update your “responsible person” information
Why Unrestricted Funds Matter
What is unrestricted funding? Two philanthropy experts explain Genevieve Shaker, IUPUI and Pamala Wiepking, IUPUI Unrestricted funds are grants or donations nonprofits get to spend any way they believe is appropriate to further their mission. Unrestricted funding can also come
Defending against Cybercrime
Cybersecurity continues to be a hot topic. CNN recently reported that in 2020, ransom payments were up more than 400% from the prior year. CNN had some insights and some cautions for organizations that may be victims of cybercrime. If
Does the executive order apply?
The morning after President Biden announced the Executive Orders related to required vaccines, I received a flood of calls/emails asking, “Does that apply to us?” The orders were for federal contractors. CILs that receive direct grants (Part C) are grantees,
Giving credit where credit is due
Most grants — including those your center receives from Health and Human Services, are required to include that information in any press releases or other ACL supported publications and forums describing projects or programs funded in whole or in part
Lobbying: What can SILCs and CILs do?
The first rule is that you cannot ever endorse a candidate. (This has to do with IRS rules around non-profit status, if you have that, and rules against state entities endorsing candidates if you are not a non-profit.) The second
Can I use grant funding to establish incentive programs? New FAQ released.
Recently our key funder, ACL, released information on using grant funds to purchase incentive items as part of the program of a center. While this FAQ answers the pressing question of incentives related to CDC and ACL funds and COVID-19,