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| Above
the Fold |
A newspaper term meaning all text and images
above the fold in the middle of the paper - the term now applies to Web
sites, meaning the text and images visible on the initial screen, before
the user scrolls down to read all of the information.
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| Above
The Line Advertising |
Advertising targeted to mass audiences, using
a medium that the advertiser does not control itself. |
| Accessible |
Easy to approach, enter, operate, participate
in, or use safely, independently, and with dignity by a person with a disability.
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| Accidental
Sample |
This sampling technique makes no attempt to
achieve representativeness, but chooses subjects based on convenience and
accessibility. |
| Accountability |
(1) The capacity to account for one's actions.
(2) As a representative of an organization, to account for either individual
actions or the actions of the organization. The term is usually used in
the voluntary sector to refer to the responsibility a nonprofit organization
has to inform donors of the manner in which their gifts were used. |
| Accounting
Policy |
A predetermined policy dictating the appropriate
account management of all contributions received. |
| Accounting
Procedures |
Those procedures established to assure that
all contributions are properly accounted for, managed, and disbursed in
accordance with the approved accounting policy.
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| Accounts
Payable on Death (P.O.D.) |
The charity can be named beneficiary of a
bank account, bond, or other security, provided state laws allow. |
| Accounts
Receivable |
Office procedure to control collections on
pledges, including files reflecting balances due on pledges, terms of payments
, records & dates of payments made.
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| Accreditation |
Recognition given to a person or organization
meeting certain standards.
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| Accrual
Basis Accounting |
Calls for recording revenue in the period
in which it is earned and recording expenses in the period in which they
are incurred. Once elected, organizations must continue to use this accounting
basis. |
| Accuracy |
The extent to which an evaluation is truthful
or valid in what it says about a program, project, or material. |
| Achievement |
Performance as determined by some type of
assessment or testing. |
| Acknowledgment |
Written expression of gratitude for gift or
service. |
| Acknowledgment
Letter |
A letter sent by an organization to the donor
expressing appreciation for a gift and identifying the use that will be
made of the gift. An acknowledgement letter may be a form letter, but it
is usually personalized. |
| Acquisition |
Purchasing another organization in order to
acquire its market strength. |
| Acquisition
Indebtedness |
Debt incurred by a tax-exempt organization
for the purpose of, or in connection with, acquiring assets. The result
of acquisition indebtedness is to cause some or all of the income from the
acquired assets to become unrelated business taxable income. |
| Acquisition
Mailing |
A mailing to prospects with efforts to acquire
new members or donors. |
| Acrobat |
Created by Adobe, Acrobat is a cross-platform
software program that decodes, reads, and converts documents in a format
called PDF (Portable Document Format). |
| Act |
Legislation that has passed both chambers
of Congress in identical form, been signed into law by the President, or
passed over a veto, thus becoming law. |
| Action |
The ultimate goal of every aspect of a marketing
plan - to direct the customers and potential customers on how to act (buying
tickets, signing up for a class, becoming a subscriber, etc). |
| Action |
The consideration of any motion made on a
bill, resolution, or other legislative matters |
| Action
Forum |
The large-group meeting at the end of a round
of study circles designed to pool the action ideas from each individual
group. |
| Action
Plan |
A document that defines how the organization
will get where it wants to go by defining who will do what, when and how,
as well as how to address current issues and emerging trends. |
| Action
Planning and Processes |
Deciding who is going to do what, by when
and in what order for the organization to reach its strategic goals. The
design and implementation of action planning depends on the nature and needs
of the organization. An action plan includes a schedule with deadlines for
significant actions. |
| Active
Listening |
A way of listening that focuses entirely on
what the other person is saying. It confirms understanding of both the content
of the message and the emotions and feelings underlying the message to ensure
that understanding is accurate. |
| Active
Voice |
A sentence style in which the subject performs
the action. Usually preferable to passive voice unless the passive is specifically
called for. |
| Actives |
Customers who are your greatest source of
revenue. |
| ActiveX |
A set of technologies created used to enable
interactive content on Web sites. |
| Activities |
Program activities are the process, tools,
events, technology, and actions that are an intentional part of the program
implementation. These interventions are used to bring about intended program
changes or results. |
| Activity
Settings |
Places that are designed to support particular
behavior such as large formal meetings and small informal gatherings. |
| Activity-based
Costing (ABC) System |
A cost system that first traces costs to activities
and then traces costs from activities to products. |
| Actual
Data |
Data that is collected about a specific individual
and saved on a computer record that pertains to that individual. |
| Ad
Banner |
An advertisement on a Web page, it provides
a link to another Web site or buffer page. |
| Ad
Click |
Action from a user clicking on the advertisement
to get more information. |
| Ad
Click Rate |
Ratio of ad clicks to ad views. |
| Ad
Views |
Display of an advertisement on the Web page
that a user is viewing. |
| Adaptive
Capacity |
The ability of the organization to respond
to complex situations, problems and issues not faced before. |
| Add-ons |
"Extras" that increase the value of a product.
This could include things such as post-show lectures, complimentary dinner
reservations and so on. |
| Added
Value |
The value that a firm adds to a product in
the chain of production. |
| Address
Correction |
A technique of cleaning lists mailed out by
bulk rate. If the envelope includes the phrase "Address Correction Requested"
on individual piece mail, there is a Post Office guarantee and each item
with an incorrect address will be returned and the correct address will
be provided. There is however, added fees for each piece of mail that is
returned. |
| Adhesion
Contract |
A contract so imbalanced in favor of one party
over the other that there is a strong implication it was not freely bargained.
Often involves a form contract. An adhesion contract theory can give the
opportunity to claim in court that the contract is invalid. |
| ADI
(Area of Dominant Influence) |
Refers to market area based on television
viewership in a given market. |
| Adjourn |
A motion to adjourn in the Senate (or a committee)
ends that day's session. |
| Adjusted
Gross Income |
Income from salary and wages, investments,
and capital gains. |
| Administer |
Managing or directing the execution of affairs. |
| Administrative
Systems |
Internal office and accounting functions that
support the work of a company. |
| Adoption
Assistance |
A financial contribution towards adoption-related
expenses (i.e. legal, agency, medical, transportation). A comprehensive
policy typically includes financial reimbursement, in addition to: leave
time, adoption support services, worksite seminars, and employee information
materials. |
| Advance
Gifts |
Gifts made/solicited in advance of the formal
public beginning of an intensive campaign to ensure a level of giving equal
to the requirements of the campaign dollar objective. |
| Adverb |
Describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb. |
| Adversarial
Approach |
Sees the other party or parties in a conflict
as an enemy to be defeated. It typically leads to competitive confrontation
strategies for approaching the conflict situation. |
| Adversary/Adversaries |
Adversaries are people who oppose each other
in a conflict. They are also called opponents, parties, or disputants. |
| Advertising |
The process of informing a customer about
a product or service and persuading that customer to buy. |
| Advertising
Agencies |
Organizations specializing in the creation
of advertisements. |
| Advertising
Media |
The various means by which advertisements
can be communicated to the public though pictures, word, speech and music
on national, regional or local media. |
| Advised
Fund |
A fund held by a community foundation where
the donor, or designees, may recommend eligible charitable recipients for
grants from the fund. The community foundation's governing body must be
free to accept or reject the recommendations. This is a flexible fund for
donors wishing to remain involved in the grantmaking process. |
| Advisory
Board |
A group of influential and diverse individuals
whose association with a program is calculated to lend luster, and implies
endorsement of the program's goals and objectives. |
| Advocacy |
The act or process of defending or maintaining
a cause or proposal. An organization may have advocacy as its mission (or
part of its mission) to increase public awareness of a particular issue
or set of issues. |
| Advocacy
Alliance |
A partnership in which nonprofit organizations
work together with companies to alter their operations, promote changes
in public policies, support self-regulation, and promote high ethical standards. |
| Affected
Class |
Those groups of persons, protected by anti-discrimination
laws, who because of past discrimination, may continue to suffer the effects
of such discrimination. Affected class status may be determined by statistical
analysis and/or court decision. |
| Affidavit |
A written statement of facts, made voluntarily,
and confirmed by the oath of the party making it. |
| Affiliate
Funds |
The foundation includes local community funds
or affiliates within its service area. These smaller community foundations
develop donors for community projects and activities in their region of
the community. Assets compiled by the affiliates are managed by the foundation
and counted as foundation assets. Foundation staff provide administrative
and financial support as well as training to affiliate members. |
| Affiliation |
A close connection or association with another
entity, usually as a subordinate. |
| Affinity
Card |
A credit card cosponsored by a nonprofit agency
and a financial for-profit company. The cause represented receives support,
and the bank or card company gets exposure and business. |
| Affirmative
Action |
Any action intended to correct effects of
past discrimination, to eliminate present discrimination, or to prevent
discrimination in the future. |
| Affirmative
Action Groups |
Those persons identified by the federal and
state laws to be specifically protected from employment discrimination. |
| Affirmative
Action Plan |
A statement of goals, timetables, and programs
indicating how the employer plans to move the current status to parity.
Also, a document required of government contractors under the regulations
of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). The employer
is obliged to compare the internal distribution of minorities and females
to their incidence in the external labor market and to determine whether
or not the employer is at parity with the external labor market. |
| After
Market |
The period commencing after the product has
been sold. |
| After-Only
Designs |
One-shot studies; evaluation designs involving
only measures taken after the program has been completed. |
| Age
Discrimination and Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) |
Specifies it is unlawful for an employer to
fail or refuse to hire or to discharge an individual or otherwise discriminate
against an individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or
privileges of employment, because of an individual's age. |
| Ageism |
Discrimination against people based on their
age, usually directed against older people or teenagers. |
| Agency |
The establishment or organization which hosts
the community service work. Community service is generally performed at
not-for-profit or governmental agencies; when community service is performed
at a school, the school is considered the agency. |
| Agency
Endowment |
A fund established within a community foundation
or other public foundation) by a nonprofit organization for its own benefit.
The foundation annually distributes a percentage of the proceeds to the
nonprofit. Although the community foundation holds and technically owns
the endowment, SFAS 136 requires that the nonprofit list the endowment as
an asset in their books and financial statements. |
| Agenda-Setting |
A process by which issue proponents work to
gain the attention of media professionals, the public and public policy
makers. |
| Agenda-Setting
Theory |
States that the menu of news and other information
made available to the public by media decision-makers ultimately defines
what is considered significant. |
| Agent |
Search tools that automatically seek out relevant
online information based on your specifications. Agents are also called
intelligent agents, personal agents, knowbots or droids. |
| Agent |
A person who is authorized to act for another
through employment, by contract or apparent authority. |
| AGP |
Accelerated Graphics Port. A PCI-based interface
that was designed specifically for demands of 3D graphics applications. |
| Aliasing
and Anti-Aliasing |
Web design terms used to describe the undesirable
distortion of visual elements on a computer screen. Anti-aliasing is a software
technique used in imaging systems to make these curved edges or diagonal
lines look smooth and continuous. |
| Alien |
An individual born in, and a citizen of, a
country other than the country in which he or she is living. |
| Alliance |
Individuals or organizations working together
in a common effort for a common purpose to make more effective and efficient
use of resources. |
| Alliteration |
The repetition of the same sounds or of the
same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables. |
| Alternate
Dispute Resolution (ADR) |
A variety of procedures for the resolution
of disputes. Each ADR procedure is a fair and efficient alternative to court
adjudication that must be entered into voluntarily by all parties. Some
of the more common ADR procedures include arbitration, mediation, and conciliation. |
| Altruism |
A selfless concern for other people purely
for their own sake. Altruism is usually contrasted with selfishness or egoism
in ethics. |
| Alumni
Clubs |
Geographically organized alumni groups. The
purpose is to maintain communication with an educational institution, usually
with some fundraising functions or concerns. |
| Alumni
Fund |
The organized effort by most educational institutions
to secure gifts on an annual basis from their own alumni, including publicly
(as well as privately) supported colleges, universities, and preparatory
schools. |
| Ambush
Marketing |
Occurs when corporations that do not have
official sponsor status gain access to sponsor benefits or otherwise seize
them away from the official sponsors. |
| Amendment |
A proposal made by a member of Congress to
alter the language, provisions or stipulations in a bill, resolution, amendment,
motion, treaty or another amendment. An amendment is usually printed, debated
and voted upon in the same manner as a bill. |
| Amendment
in the Nature of a Substitute |
An amendment seeking to replace the entire
text of a bill. Passage of this type of amendment strikes out everything
after the enacting clause and inserts a new version of the bill. An amendment
in the nature of a substitute can also refer to an amendment that replaces
a large portion of the text of a bill. |
| American
Council On Gift Annuities |
A qualified nonprofit organization formed
in 1927 as the Committee on Gift Annuities for the purpose of providing
educational and other services to American charities regarding gift annuities
and other forms of planned gifts. |
| American
Society for Training and Development (ASTD) |
A professional organization specializing in
staff development and workplace learning, mostly in the for-profit sector. |
| Americans
with Disabilities Act |
Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits
employment discrimination on the basis of workers' disabilities. It guarantees
equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations,
employment, transportation, State and local governnment services, and telecommunications |
| Americans
with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) |
The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis
of disability in employment, programs and services provided by state and
local governments, goods and services provided by private companies, and
in commercial facilities. |
| AmeriCorps |
The national service program available to
youth and adults ages 17 and older. In return for serving their communities,
participants can earn money towards their college education. |
| Amnesty |
The granting of a pardon for past offenses
(especially political offenses) including human rights violations and war
crimes. |
| Analog |
The electronic transmission accomplished by
adding signals of varying frequency or amplitude to carrier waves of a given
frequency of alternating electromagnetic current. |
| Analysis |
A systematic approach to problem-solving.
Complex problems are made simpler by separating them into more understandable
elements. This involves the identification of purposes and facts, the statement
of defensible assumptions, and the formulation of conclusions. |
| Analysis
of Variance |
A method for analyzing the differences in
the means of two or more groups of cases. |
| Analyst |
An individual representing a trade or professional
association who reviews and comments publicly on products, services, and
companies. |
| Analytic
Scoring |
An approach to scoring or rating that considers
various aspects of the attribute or performance being assessed, for use
in profiling strengths and weaknesses or in obtaining an overall summary.
Scores may be recorded as a check mark for the presence or absence of an
attribute, marked on a numerical or descriptive rating scale, or put in
the form of a brief comment. |
| Analytical
Problem-Solving |
An approach to deep-rooted or intractable
conflicts that brings disputants together to analyze the underlying human
needs that cause their conflict, and help them work together to develop
ways to provide the necessary needs to resolve the problem. |
| Anchor |
This HTML tag directs the user to another
location on the same Web page. |
| Anniversary
Campaign |
A fundraising campaign or development program
centered around an anniversary date of an institution on the premise that
the occasion will stimulate special "birthday" gifts. |
| Annual
Appeal |
An organized effort by a nonprofit to secure
gifts on an annual basis. |
| Annual
Exclusion |
An amount of $10,000 which every individual
can exclude from federal gift tax for every gift of a present interest which
that individual gives to another individual. The annual exclusion is very
important for gifts made to persons or entities other than spouses (where
the marital deduction is usually available) or nonprofits (where the charitable
tax deduction is usually available). It can be used to reduce very substantial
estates free of the unified transfer tax very quickly. |
| Annual
Fund |
Any organized effort by a nonprofit institution
or program to secure gifts on an annual basis to support yearly budgets
or general operations. Funds are typically raised through mail or direct
solicitation efforts. |
| Annual
General Meeting |
Normally the most important meeting an organization
has each year. The governing board, executive director, and the general
membership are normally all present at this meeting. |
| Annual
Giving |
Annually repeating gift programs; seeking
funds on annual or recurring basis from same constituency. Income is generally
used for operating budget support. |
| Annual
Report |
Reports issued each year by a growing number
of charities to provide donors and prospective donors with information about
their income, expenditures, programs, and progress. Disseminating an annual
report to the public is considered to be an organizational best practice. |
| Annual
Work Plan |
A document that describes what the organization
will do over the period of one year and links together the work plans of
all the program components. |
| Annuitant |
An individual or entity entitled to receive
an annuity. |
| Annuity |
An amount to be paid periodically. Usually
(1) the amount is a fixed sum not dependent upon income; (2) the period
is the life of an annuitant; and (3) the frequency of payment of the fixed
sum is at least annual. Payers of annuities generally base the annuity on
the life expectancy of the annuitant as well as the premium. |
| Annuity
Trust |
Commonly, the same as charitable remainder
annuity trust. |
| Anonymity
(provision for) |
Evaluator action to ensure that the identity
of subjects cannot be ascertained during the course of a study, in study
reports, or in any other way. |
| Anonymous
Gift |
A gift that, by specific wish of the donor,
can only be announced by amount; the name of the donor is withheld. |
| Anthropological
Evaluation |
An evaluation that uses quantifiable data
sparingly; relies on extensive stakeholder interviews to capture important
information. |
| Anti-Semitism |
The subordination of Jewish people by other
groups, often leading to violent acts against people based on their Jewish
heritage. |
| Antivirus
Software |
A program used to monitor, quarantine and
delete files or programs infected by a virus. |
| Apostrophe |
A punctuation mark used to show possession.
Also used in contractions, which should be avoided in formal prose. |
| Applet |
A small program or application, usually written
in Java, that runs on a Web browser to provide animation or computation. |
| Applicant |
Organizations that have submitted grant requests
to a foundation. |
| Applicant
Relationship |
The strategic bridge between foundations and
applicants , over which money, lessons learned, and ultimately social change
must pass. |
| Application |
Used interchangeably with program and software,
this is a general term for a program that performs specific tasks, such
as word processing, database management, e-mail sending or retrieval, or
Web browsing. |
| Applied
Research |
Research designed for the purpose of producing
results that may be applied to real world situations. |
| Apportionment |
Division of the state into districts from
which representatives to the State Legislature and U.S. Congress are elected |
| Appraisal |
Donors claiming charitable income tax deductions
for gifts in-kind other than gifts of stock traded on a national exchange,
should substantiate the claimed fair market value with an appraisal if the
total of such gifts is over $500. If the total of such gifts exceeds $5,000
($10,000 for gifts of closely held stock), donors must have qualified appraisals
and include summaries of those appraisals on their Forms 8283. |
| Appreciated
Property |
Assets that have increased in value, including
long-term capital gain. |
| Appreciated
Real Property |
Gifts of real estate or securities held long-term
are deductible for federal income tax purposes at the full fair market value
with no capital gain on the appreciation. However, the appreciation is a
tax preference item and proper counsel should be obtained to evaluate whether
this would have alternative minimum tax consequences. |
| Appreciation |
Increase in the value (from date of purchase)
of an asset such as a stock, a bond, a commodity, or real estate. |
| Appropriation |
Provision of law that provides authority for
Federal agencies to obligate funds and to make payments out of the Treasury
for specified purposes. Appropriations for the Federal government are provided
both in annual appropriations acts and in permanent provisions of law. |
| Appropriations
Bill |
A bill that gives legal authority to spend
or obligate money from the Treasury. The Constitution forbids money to be
drawn from the Treasury "but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." |
| Aptitude |
The potential for acquiring abilities or developing
competencies. |
| Arbitration |
A procedure through which a third party neutral
arbitrator examines facts in a hearing and renders an award to settle a
dispute. |
| Arbitrator |
An impartial person selected by the parties
to a dispute who is empowered to make a determination concerning the issues
in dispute. |
| Area
of Interest Fund |
A type of fund that allows donors to direct
funding to a particular cause or specific geographical area, such as environmental
causes, youth programs, the arts, or certain neighborhoods. |
| Articles
of Incorporation |
A document filed with the secretary of state
or other appropriate state office by persons establishing a corporation.
This is the first legal step in forming a nonprofit corporation. |
| ASCII |
The worldwide standard for the code numbers
used by computers to represent all the uppercase and lowercase Latin letters,
numbers, punctuation, and other symbols. ASCII is used to describe files
that are stored in plain text format. Pronounced "as-key". |
| Assessment |
Often used as a synonym for evaluation. The
term is sometimes recommended for restriction to processes that are focused
on quantitative and/or testing approaches. |
| Asset |
The amount of capital or principal money,
stocks, bonds, real estate or other resources controlled by a person, association,
corporation or foundation. In the case of a foundation, assets are generally
invested and the income is used to make grants. |
| Asset
Allocation |
The distribution of a pool of assets among
various asset classes, including, but not limited to, domestic and foreign
bonds, cash, real estate, and venture capital. |
| Asset
Classes |
Types of investments commonly divided into
the categories of equity (common stock), fixed-income (bonds), cash and
cash equivalents and alternative investments (real estate, oil and gas,
venture capital, distressed securities, leveraged buyouts, risk arbitrage,
etc.). |
| Asset
Mapping |
Identifying and building upon individual,
community and organizational assets. |
| Asset-Based
Community Development |
Aims to identify existing community strengths
and build upon them. |
| Assign |
Designation of responsibility for gift solicitation,
enlistment of volunteer workers, or performance of a specific task. |
| Assignment
Of Income Doctrine |
A rule created by courts which says that taxpayers
cannot avoid tax on income which they have already earned but simply have
not yet received by assigning that income to a third party. |
| Associated
Charity |
Two or more "registered charities" may apply
to be designated as associated. They do so by using form T3011, Registered
Charities - Application for Designation as Associated Charities. If the
Department approves such a designation, income that a "charitable organization"
disburses to a "registered charity" that has been designated as associate
with will be considered a resource devoted to the "charitable organization's"
own charitable activity. |
| Associates |
A group of individuals who may be supporting
an institution through contributions at a prescribed level, who may be serving
in a special advisory capacity, or who may serve as a sponsoring body for
special institutional events. |
| Asymmetric |
A data connection is asymmetric when upstream
and downstream transmission speeds are substantially different. Some cable
modem providers offer highly asymmetric service, where downstream speeds
are much greater than upstream, in attempts to discourage telecommuting
and home office uses of the network. Slow upstream connections limit the
ability of the public to author Internet content, rather than merely consume
it. |
| Asynchronous
Training |
Self-paced training that does not require
the student and instructor to participate at the same time. |
| At
Will Employment |
An employment practice which allows either
the employer or employee to terminate the relationship at any time. |
| ATNA |
A variation of BATNA (Best Alternative To
a Negotiated Agreement), ATNA refers to any alternative to a negotiated
agreement, not just the best one. |
| Attainable |
One of the three qualities of a well-defined
marketing objective for a nonprofit organization. Attainable means that
your organization should realistically be able to reach the goals set in
your marketing objective. Your organization should determine whether it
has, or can get the necessary resources, budget, or staffing to accomplish
what it is setting out to do.
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| Attention |
Getting your organization's sales messages
noticed - stopping the consumer in his tracks and causing him or her to
say, "This is important to me. This fills a need. I should pay attention
to this message." |
| Attitude |
What people feel about your organization’s
product--usually the result of an experience - an ad, imagery, using the
product, word of mouth or all of the above. |
| Attitude
Surveys |
Data collection techniques designed to collect
standard information from a large number of subjects concerning their attitudes
or feelings. These typically refer to questionnaires or interviews. |
| Attribute |
A characteristic, capacity, or perceived quality
of an individual, thing, or place. For individuals, attributes include,
but are not limited to: attitude, ability, behavior, skill, knowledge, or
interest. |
| Attrition |
The loss of subjects during the course of
a study. This may be a threat to the validity of conclusions if participants
of study and comparison/control groups drop out at different rates or for
different reasons. |
| Audience |
A body of listeners or spectators. |
| Audience |
The target groups or constituencies to whom
efforts are directed or have an effect upon. |
| Audience(s) |
Consumers of the evaluation; those who will
or should read or hear of the evaluation, either during or at the end of
the evaluation process. Includes those persons who will be guided by the
evaluation in making decisions and all others who have a stake in the evaluation. |
| Audit |
An independent examination of the accounting
records and other evidence relating to a business to support the expression
of an impartial expert opinion about the reliability of the financial statements. |
| Auditing
Standards |
Guidelines to which an auditor adheres. Auditing
standards encompass the auditor's professional qualities, as well as his
or her judgment in performing an audit and in preparing the auditor's report.
Audits conducted by independent certified public accountant (CPA) usually
in accordance with generally accepted accounting standards (GAAS), which
consist of standards approved and adopted by the membership of the American
Institute of certified public accountants (AICPA). |
| Authentication |
A security measure that requires the user
to enter a username and password before entering a specific site. Authentication
ensures that the person at the other end of a digital connection is the
approved user. |
| Authority |
Permission or a right coupled with the power
to do an act or order others to act. |
| Authorization |
A process that verifies whether or not an
individual or organization who has requested an action actually has the
right to make the request. |
| Authorization |
Basic, substantive legislation that establishes
or continues the legal operation of a federal program or agency, either
indefinitely or for a specific period of time, or which sanctions a particular
type of obligation or expenditure. An authorization is normally a prerequisite
for an appropriation or other kind of budget authority. |
| Auxiliary
Aids and Services |
Devices or services that accommodate a functional
limitation of a person with a communication-related disability. |
| Average
Costs |
This is the total cost of production divided
by the number of units produced. |
| Average
Hours Volunteered Annually |
The mean number of hours of volunteering contributed
to charitable and/or nonprofit organization by each person in a given group
and a given region (i.e. Canada, British Columbia) over the period of one
year. |
| Awards |
An award of funds to an organization to undertake
charitable activities. |
| Awareness |
Awareness is related to your organization's
branding strategy. Generating awareness doesn't happen overnight; it's a
building process. It starts with getting noticed. It moves through building
interest. It culminates in being remembered - and being remembered for the
right reason! Throughout the process, the key is being relevant. |
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Glossary information provided by the Nonprofit Good Practice Guide, a project of the Philanthropic and Nonprofit Knowledge Management Initiative (PNKM) at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership.
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