Booster Club Fraud Response Plan: Investigate Losses and Protect Community Trust
A booster club fraud response plan is a written, step-by-step procedure that guides officers, athletic directors, and school administrators through the period between discovering a potential financial loss and reaching a documented resolution. When a treasurer resigns unexpectedly, a cash count comes up short, an account statement shows transactions no one authorized, or a community member raises a concern about missing funds, the organization’s first hours and days matter more than anything that follows. Evidence gets lost. Records get accessed by the wrong people. Key witnesses become unavailable. The decisions made—or not made—in that early window determine whether an investigation is recoverable.
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