Guest Spotlight

Guest Article: Ditching the Deductible: Cost Reductions through Creative “First-Dollar” Coverage

Plan design decisions impact costs for both employers and employees. Employers and their advisors can manipulate the levers of plan design to manage costs but these changes can also increase costs for participants, creating dissatisfaction and barriers to care. What...

Guest Article: Controlling Spiraling Cyberattacks: Understanding Today’s Cyber Landscape is Essential for all School Leaders

As we have seen in recent cyberattacks at schools, it is no longer a matter of if, but when your school may become the next target of ransomware, phishing, denial of service, or other cyberattacks. Understanding today’s cyber landscape related to the education market...

Guest Article: Keys to Sustaining a Professional Learning Program that Sticks

Today, a school’s success relies on its implementation of research-based and current instructional best practices. To improve student achievement and teaching practices, educators must also focus on integrating their own continuous learning in a sustained and...

Guest Article: Helping Schools Embrace Mindfulness

Mission Be is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to bringing mindfulness-based social, emotional and life-skills to students, youth, families and educators in order to create a more sustainable and compassionate world. Mindfulness is the practice of paying...

Guest Article: Mental Health Support For Students

Schools on Long Island are required to provide health education that must include instruction on mental health. Per the State Education Department, the purpose is to ensure that the instruction enhances student understanding, attitudes and behaviors that promote...

Guest Article: Has your School District Been Riding the Interest Rate Wave?

The Federal Funds Rate is the interest rate at which banks and other depository institutions lend money to each other, usually on an overnight basis. It is an excellent benchmark for short-term interest rates and investors use it to determine how local government...

Guest Article: 2023 Retirement Plan Limits

2021 2022 2023 401(k)/403(b)/457(b) Elective Deferral Limit $19,500 $20,500 $22,500 Catch-up Contribution Limits:(for Plan Participants age 50 and older) 401(k)/403(b)/457(b) Plans $6,500 $6,500 $7,500 SIMPLE Plans $3,000 $3,000 $3,500 Traditional IRA/ROTH IRA $1,000...

Guest Article: Accepting Credit Card Payments as a Business

If you’re starting a business today, it’s a near certainty that you’ll need to accept credit and debit card payments. Whether it’s a brick and mortar, on the go, or the obvious e-commerce environment, more and more people are going cashless (that’s an entirely...

Guest Article: Impact on Worker’s Compensation from COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for nonprofits making it difficult for them to operate as they have in the past. During this time, especially throughout 2020, many nonprofits and their employees were not able to offer in person services. Instead,...

Guest Article: How will Artificial Intelligence Change the Nonprofit Sector in 2023?

As we peer into our special nonprofit crystal ball, it is clear that artificial intelligence (AI) will play a major role in transforming how charities and organizations work. By 2023, AI technology will have advanced significantly and become more accessible, allowing...
Guest Article: E-Rate Funding Explained

Guest Article: E-Rate Funding Explained

Before the pandemic, many schools were in the process of implementing a 1:1 device for students and staff. With the onset of remote learning, that timeline was hastened. Schools not only have to consider the cost of the devices, but the ability to use the devices...

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Guest Article: Finance Manager nVision Features

Guest Article: Finance Manager nVision Features

As many districts we work with use Finance Manager’s nVision program as their financial application system, we reached out to our contacts there to provide some of the features that can help with new school year and year-end processes. Below are some highlights they...

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Guest Article: 2022-2023 Cyber Insurance Outlook

Guest Article: 2022-2023 Cyber Insurance Outlook

Cyber coverage in the public school arena is challenging. In a recent demographic study of K-12 public school districts, school districts with larger enrollments and lower economic metrics are more likely to see a cyber event than those with a smaller enrollment and...

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Guest Article: Conferences, Luncheons, and Gifts, Oh my!

Guest Article: Conferences, Luncheons, and Gifts, Oh my!

In our roles as either internal or claims auditors for school districts on Long Island, we are often asked about whether certain purchases can be considered a gift of public funds. While we often recite the regulations per the School Law book when providing an answer,...

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Guest Article: Building Your Bridge to Monetization™

Guest Article: Building Your Bridge to Monetization™

Remember when you first started your business? Young, maybe a little naïve, willing to take the necessary risks, not knowing if success or failure was in your future. Fast-forward to today; you have built a successful company that has provided your family and others a...

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