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Part of Highwire Improv’s series ‘Important Stuff Most People Find Boring’ The internet is surprisingly full with websites and forums discussing conflict-of-interest policies for non-profit organizations (like Highwire Improv).  There are three reasons for this: The IRS requires non-profit organizations to have a conflict-of-interest policy.Legal things are detailed and complicated.Most people don’t want to deal with that so they copy/paste the IRS’s example policy and use that, and then get shocked when they actually need the policy.  It turns out that thinking about important, ambiguous, situations before they happen is a good idea! Like many things associated with non-profit policy,…

Recently we got some helpful feedback that it was unclear how we might use the data requested in our Show Submission form - specifically the names and identity groups of cast members. Two of Highwire Improv's core values are transparency and action - in the interest of both we wanted to immediately add this post detailing why we ask for this information and how we expect to use it. If that changes, we'll update this page (see the table at the bottom). Why We Ask For Identifying Information In our Show Submission form, we ask groups to list the names…