Categories: Business Continuity Planning
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
How to Create a Business Continuity Plan
As the editor of a news organization, I had backup plans for how to get our morning newsletter out every day. We published the newsletter early in the morning, so I often edited and sent it remotely from my house....
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Climate Risk
May 23, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Building in Bounce: Resilience and Mission Success
“A company built for resilience is a company that is structured to last forever. This is different from a company built for stability. Stability, by its very definition, is about remaining the same.” – Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game This...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning
March 20, 2023
Resource Type: Articles
Scope Out Scenarios to Inspire Confidence During a Recession
The prospect of a recession—whether it’s the short-term variety we experienced in 2020, or the long-term version whose impact stretched well beyond 2008—should inspire a commitment to pause and reflect. None of us know how and when the most mission-impactful...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Insurance and Risk Financing
February 14, 2023
Resource Type: Articles
How to Build Your Nonprofit’s Resilience
A resilient organization has a strong foundation to weather adversity and bounce back better. With forethought and planning, all organizations can become more resilient. Here are nine ways to do it. Don’t rely on one source for your organization’s essentials. Have...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning
August 11, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Does Your Nonprofit Have Resilience DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is “a molecule that contains the biological instructions that make each species unique.” (See www.genome.gov). Did you know that certain information about future health risks is embedded in your DNA? Popular DNA test kits offer the promise...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
June 7, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
For Granted
During one of my favorite episodes of The West Wing, President Bartlet remarks, “The most costly disruptions always [happen] when something we take completely for granted stops working for a minute.” Risk leaders around the globe continue to champion building resilient...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning
January 12, 2022
Resource Type: Webinars
Story Time: Risk Lessons from My Pandemic Reading List
Join the Nonprofit Risk Management Center’s CEO, Melanie Lockwood Herman, for a “story time” tour through her recently-favorited risk-related reads, all of which she absorbed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Explore lessons from inspiring leadership development books and other popular titles,...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning
May 12, 2021
Resource Type: Webinars
Lessons from the Pandemic: On the Road to the Next New Normal
Risk programs have been forced to adapt rapidly during the pandemic. All nonprofits have had to pivot in myriad ways to respond to the ever-changing situation. This “Black Swan” event left many nonprofits scrambling to adapt risk assessments, policies and...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning
December 16, 2020
Resource Type: Risk eNews
2021: Are You Ready?
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. – Rosa Parks A common sentiment among anyone surviving the first year of this new...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning
November 17, 2020
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Your Next New Normal: 5 Things to Do to Prepare for What’s Next
At the beginning of 2020, no one could have predicted that a pandemic would knock the world off its proverbial axis or that the ripple effect would touch nearly every aspect of daily life. Organizations have been forced to grapple...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications