Who This Is For
Texas nonprofits with 25 to 100 employees. At this size, the Executive Director is usually the HR department, the grants manager, and the person who handles the hard conversation when a complaint lands. Monitoring visits now routinely check for written personnel policies, complaint procedures, and documented investigations. The gap between what your grant agreements require and what your files contain is real, and someone is eventually going to measure it. Better if that someone is working for you.
What the Current State Costs
The first badly handled harassment complaint reaches the board, the funder, and sometimes the local paper, in that order. Most D&O and EPLI policies come with deductibles and conditions your board has never read.
What Gets Audited
The audit scores your organization across the six domains of the People Systems Design framework, with one addition built for nonprofits: every finding is cross-referenced against the HR requirements in your active grant agreements.
Job descriptions, the handbook, and whether authority between the ED and the board is actually written down.
Personnel files, documentation quality, and the specific policies your grant agreements require you to have.
Hiring, onboarding, and separation, including the volunteer and grant-funded position complications nonprofits carry.
Whether program managers who were promoted for mission skill have ever been trained to supervise.
Turnover data, complaint history, and what you could show a funder or an attorney tomorrow.
Evaluations, pay practices, and the burnout patterns that show up in your exit data.
Pricing
Three fixed fees. No hourly billing, no open-ended proposal.
- Sample review of personnel files
- Handbook and policy gap list
- Written summary of findings
- Full six-domain audit with staff interviews
- Findings mapped to your grant agreements
- Board-ready summary and monitoring-file document
- Sample review of personnel files
- Handbook and policy gap list
- Full six-domain audit with staff interviews
- Findings mapped to your active grant agreements
- Findings briefing by video
- Board-ready summary and monitoring-file document
- Everything in the Funder-Readiness Audit
- Board-ready summary, written for direct presentation
- Compliance summary formatted for your monitoring files
- Priced 90-day repair roadmap
- Completed board one-pager with motion language
Sized for an ED's Authority
The audit is priced inside typical Executive Director discretionary spending limits, so you can start without waiting for a board cycle. The board hears about it when you present the findings, at which point you are the person who saw the problem early. Many funders treat an engagement like this as an allowable capacity-building or administrative cost; confirm with your program officer, and the invoice will be structured to match.
An Audit Your Board and Your Funders Can Rely On.
If any part of the engagement fails to meet your standard, the final 25% of the fee is waived. This guarantee applies if:
- The report is not delivered within 20 business days of document receipt
- Any policy requirement in your active grant agreements is missed
- The board summary needs editing before it can be presented
Timeline
The list arrives the day you sign, including copies of your active grant agreements.
File review, grant mapping, and staff interviews. About ninety minutes of staff time in total.
Report, board summary, and monitoring-file document, delivered within 20 business days of document receipt.
Questions Nonprofits Ask
Your Grant Agreements Already Say What Your HR Files Are Supposed to Contain. Find Out Whether They Do.
A 20-minute scoping call confirms the tier that fits, the timeline, and how the invoice should be structured for your budget categories.