Nonprofit finance, accounting, and tax news. Other tidbits of interest to the charity community.
(duplicate of post from Attestation Update)
Attorney Jay Shepherd gives us 500,000 reasons to worry about retaliation claims.
He explains that when something bad happens to an employee after filing a discrimination claim, it makes it look like the employer retaliated against the employee for filing the claim. Looks like payback. That is a bad thing. Very bad. That is a serious offense in the eyes of the law.
“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
Might be worth your time to ask your funders if they really need to see audited financial statements. If the only reason you’re having an audit is to meet the requirements of a few foundations, call them to see if they still need it. Perhaps they would be happy with reviewed financial statements.
While rare, clergy killers are real. It would be wise to know of the concept and have a bit of knowledge on hand in case you should ever encounter one.
Clergy Killers, By G. Lloyd Rediger, ISBN 978-0664257538
From my review at Amazon:
You may wonder why there is a book tackling what seems to be an issue so severe that it must be extremely rare, if it even really exists. The author is addressing the specific situation when a member of the congregation is truly focused on destroying a pastor. Most people have never seen a clergy killer in operation. I have.