In order to receive the UNA Badge for the Credential in Finance and Legal, the organization must submit the following items for review:

Please follow specific guidelines in the participant folder, as they are always going to be the most current.

1.0 Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and Bylaw Review

Organization’s bylaws, including description of voting procedures, number of board members, terms of office, method of removal from office, how bylaws are revised, and description of officers and their duties.

1.1 Document the most recent review of bylaws, including who was involved in the review and when it occurred.

2.0 Policies and Procedures

Policies and Procedures manual or similar compilation of organization’s policies, including code of conduct, whistleblower policy, non-discrimination policy, document retention and destruction policy, and conflict of interest policy. Include date of most recent review of policies and procedures and who was involved in its review.

3.0 Training

Document ongoing staff, board, and volunteer training on policies and procedures. A training calendar, a sample of recent training, a document outlining how policies and procedures trainings occur in the organization, a sample volunteer orientation packet, a sample staff handbook or similar proof would satisfy this requirement.

4.0 Board Minutes

Document your organization’s method of compiling and archiving the minutes from board meetings. Describe how minutes are taken and by whom, how they are stored, how amendments/revisions are noted and how the minutes are made accessible.

5.0 Code of Ethics

Provide a copy of your organization's dated, signed UNA Standards of Ethics or other board approved code of ethics.

6.0 Finances

Document the organization’s financial record-keeping practices.

7.0 Financial Oversight

Provide a list of board members or other individual(s) who provide financial oversight to the organization. Note the dates of the three most recent meetings.

8.0 Policies Governing Oversight

Charter, policies or governing document denoting the responsibilities and parameters of the financial oversight body or person(s).

9.0 Filings

Calendar or checklist of state and federal filings, which includes dates of most recently submissions and upcoming due dates.

10.0 Financial Planning/Goals

Provide documentation that the board has concrete long- and short-term financial goals and methods of assessing progress towards those goals. Examples of this may include a financial strategic plan, a list of organizational financial priorities for income and expenses, a financial performance dashboard or similar proof.

11.0 Budget

Recent, dated sample of the organization’s working budget.

12.0 Donor Acknowledgement

Provide a sample of organization’s donor acknowledgment letter.

13.0 Donations

Document your process for accepting and acknowledging monetary, in-kind, and other forms of donations/gifts, including providing tax receipts.

14.0 Internal Controls

Document your process for protecting the organization from fraud, abuse and/or negligence. This may include reference to separation of duties, conflict of interest policy, check-signing policies, work of Executive Committee as oversight body and/or similar proof.

15.0 Financial Reports Verification

Document how the board independently verifies the accuracy of the financial reports it receives and ensures its financial mandates are carried out. Examples of this may include description of work by financial oversight committee or individual(s) appointed by the board, organizational audit, or similar proof.