Categories: Business Continuity Planning
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Keeping Your Organization Viable for the Future
For generations to come, September 11, 2001, will be remembered as a day in which innocent lives were lost and businesses were destroyed. Yet, it doesn’t take a cataclysmic event to threaten the viability of a business or your nonprofit...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Qualities Your Nonprofit Needs in a Crisis
By the time the power went out for the sixth time Monday afternoon I was no longer surprised nor annoyed by the disappearing text on my computer monitor or the start up music for our voice over internet phone system....
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Pulling Together a Crisis Management Manual
One simple way to help everyone on the team focus in an emergency is with a Crisis Management Manual. The manual functions as a checklist of what to do when and whom to call when. Each nonprofit’s manual reflects the most...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Comes With the Territory! What Big Business Execs Can Learn from Values-Based Nonprofit Leaders
These days we live in a hyper-networked world of “real time” and “always on” media coverage. Few provocative quotes escape notice. From the blogosphere to the business section of your local paper, it seems as if each day brings new...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Avian Flu Precautions
A recent made-for-TV movie has given rise to questions from caring nonprofit leaders about what they should do to prepare for a potential avian flu pandemic. The answer is to step back from the fear the word "pandemic" engenders and...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Webinars
Adapting Your Business Continuity Plan: Preparing for a Pandemic
This 60-minute session will build on the March 2007 Webinar to create a subsection of your plan to address Avian flu, the current pandemic facing the world. Understanding the term pandemic and how the Avian flu fits into the scenario...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Webinars
Business Continuity Planning for Nonprofits
Everyone knows that bad things sometimes happen to good people and great nonprofits. One possibility is an event that causes the interruption of normal operations. This webinar explores the process of creating a business continuity plan for your nonprofit. Learn...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning
March 31, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Managing the Perils of Prosperity
Organizational growth and perceptions about success go hand in hand. Like the subtitle of Tom Peters' book, The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness, many boards, donors and other stakeholders believe that year-over-year growth is an...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Enterprise Risk Management
July 8, 2015
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Storm Season: Risk Lessons from Tornado Alley
Dark storm clouds were just beginning to swallow the sky over my college house as my phone started making an eerily familiar sound. While growing up in Alabama, I often heard tornado watch and tornado warning alerts broadcasting from the...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
May 13, 2015
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Fight, Flight, or Freeze?
Does your organization have a well thought-out plan to address the risk of an active shooter on your premises? For many organizations, the default response is to implement a “lockdown,” or immediately freeze all activities and shelter in place while...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications