May 2, 2019

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Use Design Thinking to Find Creative Solutions to Worrisome Risks

“Some of our important choices have a timeline. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus, an opportunity may be missed.”– James E. Faust As disruption—rapid...

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October 9, 2018

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Scorched Middle Earth: Banishing The Department of No

As fans of high fantasy fiction know first-hand, Middle-earth is the fictional setting for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the most widely-read books from English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. According to Wikipedia, “Middle-earth has also become a short-hand to...

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July 26, 2018

Resource Type: Webinars

Evaluate Your Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program

Watch this webinar to explore ERM maturity and benchmarking, and the evaluation of ERM capabilities. Learn about NRMC’s risk management maturity model, which can serve as a framework for developing your nonprofit’s ERM capabilities over time. Gain practical insights to...

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June 27, 2018

Resource Type: Webinars

Strategic Risk Assessment & Management

Get your executive team and board of directors involved in identifying, assessing, and managing risk at the strategy level. Leave this webinar with practical steps that can help leaders identify, understand, and monitor the big picture threats to your mission....

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April 4, 2018

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Risk Assessment Perspectives: Re-Lens with Three Approaches

For some, an updated prescription from an optometrist is the perfect reason to pick out a new pair of frames. For me, a new prescription led me to purchase vintage frames, which required finding a company offering a “re-lens” service....

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March 28, 2018

Resource Type: Webinars

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) 101

Watch this kickoff to the 2018 ERM webinar series, presented by Erin Gloeckner. Learn the philosophies behind Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and how ERM differs from conventional risk management. Understand why ERM is a critical component of mission stewardship and of...

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December 19, 2017

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Risk Management Maturity: Where Do You Stand?

  Hosting an Office Holiday Party? Listen to Episode #3 of The Risk Jockeys Podcast: Ho Ho Hold On There! Managing Office Party Risks ~8.5 minutes | Recorded 12.16.17       [audio m4a="https://nonprofitrisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ho-Ho-Hold-on-There-Managing-Office-Party-Risks-Episode-3.m4a"][/audio]   Looking back on the NRMC team’s...

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December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Articles

Enterprise Risk Management: The Final Frontier

It’s hard not to notice the growing use of the term “Enterprise Risk Management” among risk professionals. Yet there seems to be little agreement about what that combination of three words really means, and perhaps more importantly, whether the addition...

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December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Articles

Strategic Risk Management: Looking at Both Sides Now

An effective nonprofit manager has a thoughtful perspective on his or her organization’s past, and an educated idea of what lies ahead. Some of you dream big — predicting large new grants, praiseful national publicity and a growing demand for...

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December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Articles

Sustaining Nonprofits During Economic Downturns

As economic downturns reduce household incomes and lower investors’ and consumers’ confidence in the economy, nonprofits face especially troubling times. On one hand, most nonprofits’ incomes fall during these recessionary times: private contributions decline as individual, corporate, and foundation donors...

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