In this Not-for-Profit Section Ideacast, Alyssa Cerretti, Director of Accounting and Grant Reporting at World Vision, Inc., discusses how effective data governance helps not-for-profit organizations maintain accurate, secure and reliable data for decision-making, reporting and accountability. She explains the core elements of data governance, including data quality, security and privacy, ownership, access controls and data architecture.
Using examples from nonprofit reporting, including grant revenue reporting, Cerretti demonstrates how governance gaps can lead to inconsistent reports, manual reconciliations and unclear accountability,