Categories: General
February 19, 2020
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Lessons from the Coop: The Sky is Falling!
“To be wise is not to know particular facts but to know without excessive confidence or excessive cautiousness… (T)o both accumulate knowledge while remaining suspicious of it, and recognizing that much remains unknown, is to be wise.” — Managing the Unexpected:...
Topics: General
January 22, 2020
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Just My Cup of Team
“We may be hard-wired for power struggles, greed, and workplace conflicts. But as social creatures, we also derive enormous pleasure from creating, sharing, and implementing new ideas with other people.” – Amy C. Edmondson What better time than January, the...
Topics: General
January 22, 2020
Resource Type: Webinars
Risk-Informed Decision Making
One of the most important goals of risk management is to support risk-aware or risk-informed decision-making. This webinar explores three ways to apply a risk lens to important decisions and decision-making processes at your nonprofit. [embed]https://player.vimeo.com/video/386488154[/embed]
Topics: General
January 2, 2020
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Don’t Faint at Complaints: How Negative Feedback Can Enhance Your Reputation
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” —Henry Ford Rumors and false information can move at the speed of a digital virus. One false allegation can ripple through social media in minutes, and a single misunderstood...
Topics: General
December 23, 2019
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Reputation Risk Issue
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Topics: General
December 23, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
A View to the Horizon: Managing Reputation Risk
A famous Peanuts cartoon uses a cruise ship as an analogy for life. In the cartoon, Lucy explains that some people place deck chairs at the back of the boat to see where they have been, while others place their...
Topics: General
December 20, 2019
Resource Type: Webinars
Risk Management: It’s FUN-damental
Knowing when, where and how to get started with risk management is sometimes daunting; figuring out how to make it fun is more so! During this webinar NRMC staff share how to maximize risk management ‘wins’ and learn from epic...
Topics: General
November 6, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Systemic Failure and Risk Management
“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” – Marvin Minsky The other night, I happened to catch the documentary program “Retro Report” on PBS. Retro Report is a nonprofit news organization that produces mini documentaries that...
Topics: General
September 25, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
It’s Time to Banish Blueprints and Best Practices
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson When our team is asked, “What should a risk committee do?” or “How should risk roles be...
Topics: General
September 18, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
A Risk Management Journey with Miranda Hora
Miranda Hora is Senior Manager of Global Operations at Helen Keller International (HKI), a global development organization at work in 20 countries to save and improve the sight and lives of the world's vulnerable by combating the causes and consequences...
Topics: General, Risk Assessment