Protect: Finance, Legal, Compliance & Risk
Money, duties, policies and risk. Budgets, cost allocation, restricted funds, cash flow, controls, reporting, audit and financial health. Your legal map, the policies you actually need, procedures, policy lifecycle and risk management.
US$29 one-time · lifetime access · 25 lessons and reviews · about 8 hours.
Every lesson has a short video, the written explanation with examples, a guided exercise that saves into your organisation pack, and a sheet in the module’s Excel workbook.
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What you’ll build
2 modules, each opening to its lessons and the resources placed inside them.
Module 09Financial Management
Manage money well enough to make good decisions, protect resources and earn trust. This module is practical, not an accounting qualification: it covers what founders and leaders need to budget, forecast, control, report and oversee finances, and when to bring in a qualified accountant. How you raise income is covered separately in Module 11.
You create: Financial Management Pack · Excel: Module-09-Financial-Management.xlsx
- CoreManaging charity finances: trustee essentials (CC25) · Charity Commission for England and WalesLibrary →
- CoreCost allocation and apportionment · NCVOLibrary →
- Go deeperAdministration Costs Research: The Overhead Myth · Humentum (for Funders for Real Cost, Real Change)Library →
- PracticalTotal Cost Recovery Reconciliation Template · HumentumLibrary →
- CoreInternal Financial Controls for Charities (CC8) · Charity Commission for England and WalesLibrary →
- PracticalWriting the financial procedures manual · NCVOLibrary →
- PracticalProcurement Form Templates · HumentumLibrary →
- PracticalAcademy trust management accounting: good practice guide · Department for Education (England)Library →
- PracticalHarmonised Reporting Template (8+3) for donors · Inter-Agency Standing Committee (Grand Bargain)Library →
- CoreCharity reserves: building resilience (CC19) · Charity Commission for England and WalesLibrary →
- PracticalChanges to charity accounting and reporting · Charity Commission for England and WalesLibrary →
- CoreHumentum Finance Health Check · HumentumLibrary →
- Go deeperBest Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part One: Top 3 Measures · Nonprofit Finance FundLibrary →
Module 10Legal, Compliance, Policies & Risk
Bring together your legal and compliance framework. Map your legal duties, work out which policies and controls your organisation actually needs given its form, activities, geography, size, funding and risk profile, write procedures people can follow, keep policies alive, and manage risk with clear owners and escalation. This module supports planning; legal duties depend on your jurisdiction, so obtain qualified local advice.
You create: Compliance & Risk Pack · Excel: Module-10-Legal-Compliance-Policies-Risk.xlsx
- Go deeperCivic Freedom Monitor · International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL)Library →
- CoreDeveloping policies and procedures · NCVOLibrary →
- PracticalTrustLaw: free legal support for NGOs and social enterprises · Thomson Reuters FoundationLibrary →
- CoreIdentifying and managing conflicts of interest in a charity (CC29) · Charity Commission for England and WalesLibrary →
- Go deeperHandbook of good practices: Preventing corruption in humanitarian operations · Transparency InternationalLibrary →
- CoreSafeguarding Resource and Support Hub (RSH) · Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub (funded by UK FCDO and Swiss SDC)Library →
- PracticalPSEAH Implementation Quick Reference Handbook · CHS AllianceLibrary →
- Go deeperInternational Child Safeguarding Standards · Keeping Children SafeLibrary →
- CoreGetting started with data protection: a step-by-step guide · UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)Library →
- PracticalData Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide · UNCTADLibrary →
- Go deeperHandbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action (3rd edition) · International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)Library →
- CoreWhistleblower protection guidance · CHS AllianceLibrary →
- PracticalManaging Complaints Package · CHS AllianceLibrary →
- Go deeperHow to report a serious incident in your charity · Charity Commission for England and WalesLibrary →
- CoreNATLEX: Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation · International Labour Organization (ILO)Library →
- PracticalCreating policies and procedures (sample documents) · NCVOLibrary →
- PracticalWriting a volunteer policy · NCVOLibrary →
- PracticalCharity templates · Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC)Library →
- PracticalPlain language guides: principles, writing, design and testing · Digital.gov (US General Services Administration)Library →
- CoreCharities and Risk Management (CC26) · Charity Commission for England and WalesLibrary →
- PracticalSecurity Risk Management: a basic guide for smaller NGOs · European Interagency Security Forum (EISF, now GISF)Library →
- Go deeperThe Orange Book: Management of Risk – Principles and Concepts · HM Government (UK)Library →
- CoreRisk appetite and tolerance: guidance for practitioners · Institute of Risk Management (IRM)Library →
- PracticalRisk register (sample document) · NCVOLibrary →
- Go deeperSecurity Risk-Sharing in Partnerships: Practical barriers and pathways for intermediaries · Global Interagency Security Forum (GISF)Library →