To strengthen the administrative capacity of nonprofit agencies and promote best practices in nonprofit management by:
- • creating a unified set of administrative standards so that nonprofits meet core requirements of public and private funders
- • streamlining the administrative review process to reduce the administrative burden on nonprofit agencies and funders
Main Components of the Agency Certification Standards
- • Administration and Board Governance
- • Human Resources: Personnel and Volunteers Management
- • Fiscal Management
- • Client Services Administration
Certification steps:
- Self-Assessment of agency’s compliance with certification standards
- On-site review conducted by retired nonprofit and business community executives
- Certification …….or
- Development of an Organization Improvement Plan to assist an agency in meeting certification standards, and which may include:
a) Hands on assistance from the certification team
b) Mentoring from Executive Volunteers with expertise in Board Governance, Finances and Human Resources
c) Educational training classes, workshops, consulting, leadership development
d) Templates to create policies and manuals
e) IT assistance
5. Follow-up on-site review
6. Certification and recognition of achievement to agency’s staff, Board of Directors and Funders
For more information about the Certification Assessment Tool, contact us at 561.214.7431.
For more information about the Certification process please e-mail Agency Certification
