Risk Management Essentials
Articles from the September/October 2008 Print Edition
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Help Wanted! Screening Challenges for 21st Century Nonprofits
By Melanie Lockwood Herman and Jennifer Chandler Hauge
Finding the right people for the key roles in your nonprofit is a continuing challenge. Leading an inspired team to achieve a nonprofit’s mission doesn’t happen until the leader has recruited and retained the team of people that will propel the nonprofit’s mission forward. Yet despite the availability of high tech tools, screening effectively and choosing the most suitable applicant still feels a bit like watching a Las Vegas croupier spin the roulette wheel and launch the ball on the spinning wheel. more...
What is “Negligent Hiring?”
When a nonprofit brings a new staff member on board, paid or volunteer, the worker becomes the “agent” of the nonprofit. Should that worker subsequently cause harm to a co-worker, client or third party, the employer may face a claim alleging negligent hiring. Typically a claim of negligent hiring will allege that if the employer had engaged in more due diligence when screening the worker, a history of similar conduct would have been revealed which should have disqualified the worker from consideration. more...
Increase your Insurance
Buying IQ
The Center is pleased to present Coverage, Claims & Consequences—2nd Edition, a text that takes the mystery out of the process of obtaining insurance for your nonprofit. The second edition of this popular text is now available, hot off the press, and may be purchased from the Center’s on-line bookstore. A companion PDF version with hyperlinks to source and reference material is available at no additional charge to all buyers of the book. more...
Announcing… RMnet™
RMnet™ is a robust policy management system with risk management tools built in. Brought to you by DWA Risk Management Solutions and the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, RMnet™ was designed specifically to help leaders of secular and religious nonprofits create effective polices, ensure ready access to key policies, and deliver accessible training programs to diverse groups of paid and volunteer staff. more...
New From the Nonprofit Risk Management Center:
Hallmarks of a Risk-Aware Nonprofit
While even the most seasoned and savvy nonprofit leader won’t be able to predict the future with absolute accuracy, that doesn’t mean you can’t take steps to prepare. Some nonprofits are ready to respond to future events effectively and gracefully, while others stumble and fall. As mission-devoted leaders in our respective nonprofits, we have asked ourselves, “What can our organization learn from risk-aware nonprofits?” more...