Categories: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Charitable Registration: Resolve to Comply
Charities soliciting charitable contributions to further their mission can be tripped up significantly if they don’t pay attention to the requirements for charitable solicitation registration. Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia require charities, unless exempt or excluded, to register...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Can’t Touch This: How to Bring Your Strategic Plan Back to Life
February 25, 2015 In an article titled “Why Strategy Execution Fails—and What to Do About It,” in the March 2015 edition of the Harvard Business Review, authors Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes and Charles Sull explore what happens when mission-advancing strategies...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: The Risk Management Checkup: Ten Tips
Most of you who are reading this newsletter have given some thought to managing risk within your organizations. You've taken a look at your insurance requirements, reviewed your personnel policies, examined your service delivery to make sure that safety procedures...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Rocket Man
The world rests on three foundations: On study, on service, and on acts of benevolence. — Ethics of the Fathers (a classic work from around the year 200.) My grandfather died in April at the age of 96. It came...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Left Behind
The smallest sprout shows that there is really no death? — Walt Whitman Late last summer they took down a giant oak near the center of my small town, located about 25 miles from the nation's capital. Aerial photos of...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Journey of a Lifetime
Feeling inadequate? Dreaming of doing something with your life? Want to make a difference? Get real! Here is a work of miniscule proportions that will lower the bar — again! Do you strive for perfection? Do you spend countless hours...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Good Surprise, Bad Surprise: The Law of Unintended Consequences
When my son was just learning how to run, he often took a tumble. Occasionally, he would fall down a bit hard and though he wasn't really hurt, the shock and the injustice of the accident would bring him to...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Busting Myths
During a typical holiday visit with my family the conversation often turns to news of the latest medical, scientific or commercial “myth.” During this year’s July 4th celebration the conversation quickly turned to the recent study on the positive health...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Break Free: The Big Payoff from Kicking the Habit
April 1, 2015 Leaders are guided and inspired by the missions and values of the organizations they serve when they are called on to balance risk and reward in programming. And when it comes to the toughest choices, most leaders...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
A Word of Advice
February 11, 2015 Helping our members think through their risk-related challenges is incredibly rewarding. We approach member questions as wonderful opportunities to learn about and understand the pressure points in risk practice in the public, nonprofit, and business sectors. But...
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