For new Ops Directors inheriting the role
25 audit-grade SOPs covering finance, grants, governance, people, security, and the annual cycle. Editable. Specific. Written by an operator — not a template mill.
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25
SOPs included
8
Operating areas
~40h
Of drafting saved
14d
No-questions refund
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Download one complete procedure (SOP-01: Deposits and Cash Receipts) and read it end to end. Purpose, scope, step-by-step procedure, records and retention, role assignments, and a Common Pitfalls section drawn from real failures. Every one of the 25 SOPs is built to this standard.
See a full sample (1 of 25 SOPs)The Problem
If you're a new Ops Director, COO, or ED at a 10–100-person nonprofit, you know this feeling:
Nobody can tell you how the org actually books a deposit.
Three different people approve expense reimbursements three different ways.
The board asked for an AI policy and you have nothing.
The auditor's management letter is the same three findings four years running.
A vendor emailed asking to update their banking info — and you're not sure what to do with it.
Your CFO just resigned and the year-end close lives in their head.
You don't need a consulting engagement. You don't need another how-to-run-a-nonprofit book. You need the documents — the SOPs that should already exist, written by someone who has actually executed each one in a real organization with a real auditor.
That's what this is.
What's inside
Each SOP is one editable document with Purpose, Scope, Procedure, Records & Retention, Common Pitfalls, and Roles. Convert to Google Docs, Word, or Notion in seconds.
Deposits · Gift Acknowledgments · Expense Reimbursement · Credit Card Reconciliation · Restricted Funds · Audit Prep · Year-End Close · Form 990
Grant Award Acceptance · Grant Reporting (interim & final, federal & foundation)
Vendor Onboarding · Contractor Agreements · Insurance Renewal
New Hire Onboarding · Offboarding · Travel Policy · PTO Request
Board Member Onboarding · D&O Annual Review
Incident Reporting · Data Breach Response · Cybersecurity Annual Checklist
IT Access Provisioning · Backup Verification · AI Tool Request & Approval
Master Index · Customization Guide · Blank SOP Template · One-org Commercial License
Why this, not the free templates on Substack
The page that template mills can't write. It documents the failure modes that have actually happened in operating nonprofits — the kind of thing you only learn by being on the other side of it.
Banking change accepted via email. "Hi, please update our ACH account to [new account] for the next invoice." This is the single most successful nonprofit fraud pattern. The "vendor" is a threat actor who has compromised the vendor's email or spoofed the domain. Always verify by phone using a number you already have.
Every SOP has 8–20 of these. It's the most valuable section in the document — and the reason this library exists.
Read SOP-25 in full — the AI Tool Request & Approval sample →
Markdown source — converts cleanly to Google Docs, Word, Notion, or Confluence in seconds. Adapt to your tools, your terminology, your org. The Customization Guide walks you through it pass by pass.
Real rules cited: I-9 3-day deadline, $250 substantiation threshold, $750K single audit trigger, ASC 842 leases, IRS accountable plan, state final-pay laws, breach notification by state of residence, two-party-consent recording laws, post-2022 cyber war exclusions. Specificity you don't get from a generic template.
Audience fit
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See the full table of contents — every SOP, who owns it, how often to review it, and what goes wrong if you skip it. The same Master Index buyers get inside the library.
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About the author
20+ years at the intersection of nonprofit operations, finance, and technology — including executive leadership roles where he ran the close, signed the 990, sat through the audit, recovered from the breach, and built the controls that kept it all from happening twice. Founder of NPCrowd.
"The procedures in this library are the ones I wish I'd inherited. Now you can."
Pricing
Launch price · $197 · Going to $247 once we hit 50 buyers. No fake countdown — when it changes, it changes.
The Nonprofit SOP Library
one-time · one organization · forever
14-day no-questions refund. If it doesn't fit your org, you get every dollar back.
FAQ
Yes. The license covers your entire organization, including subsidiaries and affiliates under common control. Share with staff, contractors, board, auditors, and counsel.
No. The license is single-organization. If you need a multi-org license (consultancy, association, network), contact me.
The procedures are written for US nonprofits. State-specific items (final pay, breach notification, sick leave) are flagged for you to verify locally. Most procedures translate to Canadian and UK nonprofits with light adaptation; tax and regulatory references will not.
Markdown source, which converts cleanly to Google Docs, Word, Notion, or Confluence. Step-by-step instructions are in the included Customization Guide.
Within 14 days, no questions, if the library doesn't fit your org. Email and you'll have it back.
Original purchasers receive minor updates (typo fixes, new pitfalls, regulatory updates) at no cost via the same delivery channel for 12 months from purchase.
Not at this price point. If you want hands-on adoption support, that's a separate engagement — contact me.
One last thing
Untested backups. A $4,800 auto-renewal nobody flagged. A CFO resignation that took the only knowledge of year-end close. A wire that almost went out. The library exists for the day you'd otherwise be discovering all of this the hard way.
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