Sarbanes-Oxley for Nonprofit Boards: A New Governance Paradigm
Purchase this publication to help your organization understand the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on nonprofit boards.

PowerPoint: Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice
This presentation summarizes the 33 principles in "Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice: A Guide for Charities and Foundations" by the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector. Use the PowerPoint alongside the guidebook to review board responsibilities in four areas: (l) legal compliance and public disclosure, (2) effective governance, (3) strong financial oversight, and (4) responsible fundraising. Both tools are organized in four stand-alone sections, making it easy to cover the principles one or two modules at a time over successive board meetings.

Governance and Ethics Guidelines for Charities
The Independent Sector's Panel on the Nonprofit Sector published a guide for charities and foundations covering 33 principles of good governance and ethics. The principles are organized under four main categories: legal compliance and public disclosure; effective governance; strong financial oversight; and responsible fundraising.

IRS Compliance Guide for Charities
This document helps not-for-profits understand what is required of them by law.

Audit Committee Guide for Not-for-Profit Organizations
Audit committees oversee financial and compliance reporting. Use this guide to find out how to establish or fine-tune your committee.

IRS Document Helps Shape a Healthy Board of Directors
Learn more about the Internal Revenue Service’s 9 helpful tips to create a more successful governing board.

Office of the Inspector General's Corporate Compliance Guide for Nursing Homes

Tax Information for Charities and Non-Profit Organizations
This Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Web site includes resource materials and tools that can help ensure that not-for-profit organizations comply with all federal, state and local regulations.

Health Care Compliance Association Helps Organizations Maintain Integrity and Acheive Success
The Health Care Compliance Association was founded to champion ethical practice and compliance standards and provide necessary resources for ethics and compliance professionals and others who share these principles.

Jumping HIPAA Hurdles
The health information portion of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) will govern most aspects of the management, use, disclosure, storage, security and electronic transmission of "individually identifiable" health information.

Excellence in Governance
You could say that CCAC’s Governance standards are existential. They start, purposely, by requiring a statement of an organization’s vision and mission—its reason for being—and then go on to focus on the way that mission is reflected in its structure and management.

CARF-CCAC Accreditation for CCRCs
Accreditation demands that organizations meet standards of excellence in three critical areas: health and wellness; finance and strategy; and governance.