Categories: General
May 8, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Into the Deep: Your Six-Week Risk Challenge (It’s Not About Carbs)
Collecting data (what keeps you up at night?), sorting data (let’s sort these risks by likelihood and impact scores), and promising protection (here’s a list of all the things we’re doing to mitigate our risks) are famously familiar tasks in...
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Change Management Issue – Spring 2024
Spring 2024 Download PDF What's Inside What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know about Change A Step-by-Step Guide to Change Management Build a Communications Plan to Support Change
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
A Step-by-Step Guide to Change Management
Many organizational change efforts will fail—up to 70 percent of them, depending on which experts you ask. What makes the difference? What factors make a change take hold, and what can make a change fall flat? I’ve led my share...
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Build a Communications Plan to Support Change
Across NRMC’s client portfolio, employees tell us they’re overwhelmed by time-sensitive requests from all parts of their organizations, on many different platforms. This sense of overwhelm holds true for people who work at three-person nonprofits and those with thousands of...
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know about Change
Years ago, when I was a reporter for a business journal, the editing team met behind closed doors each week to select stories for Page 1. Then our editor decided to make a change. She told us the team would...
Topics: General
March 21, 2024
Resource Type: Webinars
Economic Risk: Fortify Your Mission to Withstand Tough Times
Data shows that most nonprofits feel real pain from economic downturns but can recover. Learn how to prepare for the next economic decline—whenever it comes—and emerge stronger on the other side. HANDOUT: ECONOMIC RISK: Fortify Your Mission to Withstand Tough...
Topics: General
March 6, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Think of It This Way, That Way, or Another Way
One of my favorite sleep apps encourages insomniac users to say the mantra “Don’t Think” over and over while listening to a distracting noise pattern. I’ve learned that green is my favorite distracting “noise” and “don’t think” is a helpful...
Topics: General
February 28, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Choose Better Words to Fight Resistance to Risk
When I was young, my parents encouraged us to make wise language choices. Cursing was verboten in our household and a stern look followed any use of crass terms, even common ones. Recently I’ve spoken to several risk leaders who...
Topics: General
February 6, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
You’re Not Alone: How to Meet Your Fellow ‘Risk People’
Being a nonprofit risk professional can be a lonely job. Maybe you manage a team, but the risk department doesn’t seem fully integrated into operations at your nonprofit. Maybe you’re a “department of one.” Or maybe risk management isn’t even...
Topics: General
January 31, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Make Wise Risk Moves, Not Hasty Resolutions, This Year
In his recent New York Times guest essay titled “This Year, Make a Resolution About Something Bigger Than Yourself,” author Roger Rosenblatt urges readers to put aside “self-oriented promises” and choose “airtight commitments” to improve our world. He writes: “The task of...
Topics: General