Benefits Through effective gift acceptance policies and procedures, gift revenue may be increased for charitable organizations while tax and other benefits can be maximized for donors at reduced risk of legal or ethical violations. This live audio conference will help you review or prepare gift planning policies and procedures, the essential structure for gift acceptance, recording and reporting. The best practices associated with the educatio...

The Federal Business Council is proud to be hosting the Annual United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cyber Security Summit & Expo at the USDA HQ.The Summit will provide participants with information and resources on today's vulnerabilities, incidents, security lifecycle, risks and mitigations; it will also identify ways to work together and build a solid security foundation program to meet future challenges and trends in cyber sec...

The Federal Business Council is proud to be hosting the Annual United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cyber Security Summit & Expo at the USDA HQ.The Summit will provide participants with information and resources on today's vulnerabilities, incidents, security lifecycle, risks and mitigations; it will also identify ways to work together and build a solid security foundation program to meet future challenges and trends in cyber sec...

Meet potential buyers face-to-face, not on the phone or through email. Pre-schedule 15 minute one-on-one, face-to-face meetings and ask your questions. This conference provides opportunities to meet buyers and contracting officers from major military bases, the surrounding states and large companies to discuss business opportunities. Educational sessions will provide current information on emerging new standards and provide you with the tools...

Benefits If a park, trail and/or open space is going to be an asset to the community, then a comprehensive effort needs to be made to properly locate, plan, budget, design, construct and maintain that asset. Learn from actual case studies how to approach the task of park planning and design. Parks, trails and open spaces are classified based on location, size and facilities. Suggestions will be made on acquiring parks and open spaces. Case stu...

Benefits We will review and discuss a wide variety of revenue recognition issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Practical case examples will be used to illustrate and reinforce the accounting principles to be considered in more complicated revenue transactions. This live audio conference will cover the revenue transaction descriptions described above in a practical approach format. You will take away concrete examples of the issues and con...

Benefits By now we've all heard the story of the Red Cross text-message fundraising campaign after the tsunami. Many nonprofits dove feet first into mobile after that, yet very few nonprofits achieved that level of success with any single mobile tactic. The truth is that mobile can be very effective for your organization, especially if you consider more than just text messaging. In this live audio conference, we will review the mobile strategi...

Benefits Many federal contractors are wasting significant amounts of time and increasing audit risk and exposure by the improper use of price and cost analysis. Many contractors and Government oversight officials do not understand the true requirements contained in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding the use of Price Analysis versus Cost Analysis. This results in significant time and expense preparing and justifying detailed cos...

Mid America Government Industry Coalition (MAGIC) has announced a two day class to be held in Midwest City at the Aerospace Collaboration and Partnership building located at 2601 Liberty Parkway, in Midwest City. How to Develop a Winning ProposalAn Insiders View of What Works Course SummaryThis 2-day course has been developed in response to an overwhelming number of requests for a simplified method of developing a proposal, realistic examples...

Benefits This live audio conference will help you understand why Congress, the Internal Revenue Service and others insist that Section 501(c)(3) entities implement the best practices in corporate governance. Michael Fine will discuss effective governance policies and procedures. He will help you understand how the redesigned Form 990's questions implicate important governance principles. The program will describe the IRS guidelines for good go...