Categories: General
July 15, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Embrace the Complexity in Your Team
Risk leaders often tell my team they frequently face resistance and resentment when new risk policies, activities, or requirements are announced. Who wouldn’t be excited and energized by another rule to follow, exercise to complete, or hoop to jump through?...
Topics: General, Organizational Culture
July 2, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Navigating Disruptive Change with a Risk-Aware Mindset
Last week I traveled 2,864 miles to temporarily escape from disruptive change. In a couple of months my home will have two new occupants: my sweet mother and her affable dog Ringo. Preparing for my new roommates has been disruptive...
Topics: General
June 2, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How to Support Employee Mental Health
Risk management helps nonprofit organizations cope with and manage through disruption and uncertainty. But what about the team members who deliver your mission every day? How is your nonprofit providing resources individuals need to deal with uncertainty? Many nonprofits are...
Topics: General
May 1, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Leadership with Situational Awareness
My dog Braxton recently reminded me of an important life skill: situational awareness. Braxton is a medium sized, predominantly Labrador mix with a fervor for playing frisbee. When I open the door, she waits for my signal to go out....
Topics: General
April 1, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Own It: Failure as a Springboard to Success
By Melanie Lockwood Herman As a teenager, I was bursting with excitement when Mum and I set off to the DMV in Danvers, MA to take my driver’s exam. A year prior, my older sister returned home from her exam...
Topics: General, Risk Basics
March 4, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults from Sexual Abuse with Mike Kolberg of Philadelphia Insurance Companies
Mike Kolberg is regional manager of risk management services for Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY), a commercial property/casualty and professional liability insurer that offers a variety of solutions tailored to the nonprofit sector. With abuse prevention for all populations top of...
Topics: General
January 27, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Cultivate Your Risk Manager Superpowers
When was your last big risk management win? Did you feel like you’d earned your superhero cape? Reflecting on our successes can help us build on areas where we excel as risk managers. It can also help us identify areas...
Topics: General
January 16, 2025
Resource Type: Webinars
Cultivate Your Risk Manager Superpowers
Remember your last big risk management win? Did you feel like you’d earned a cape? We explore the “superpowers” great risk leaders tap every day, and how to cultivate them. https://vimeo.com/1047270784/773ffac9ea?ts=0&share=copy HANDOUT: Cultivate Your Risk Manager Superpowers
Topics: General
December 16, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
NRMC’s Most Popular Risk Articles of 2024
By Rachel Sams This year, the risk managers in NRMC’s audience navigated competing demands to stay open to possibilities yet have all the answers. They sought a sense of calm and tools to help their nonprofit build resilience in the...
Topics: General
October 31, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
5 Steps to Better Risk Communication
Years ago, a boss confided in me about a personal issue that would impact her work schedule. She asked me to briefly tell each of the team members I managed about the issue, so they’d know why she was out...
Topics: General