Categories: General
March 20, 2023
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Economic Risk Issue – Spring 2023
Download PDF What's Inside Recession Risk: Look Back and Forward to Fortify Your Mission Scope Out Scenarios to Inspire Confidence During a Recession Recession Lessons and Insights
Topics: General
March 16, 2023
Resource Type: Articles
Applying a Risk-Aware Frame to Your Nonprofit’s Most Impactful Decisions
Many nonprofit leaders might not think about risk until a board member or committee asks them to or an unanticipated development or event disrupts operations. A risk-aware approach can help your nonprofit make better decisions in all aspects of its...
Topics: General
March 7, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Survey Says: Contracting Risk Survey Insights
You’ve just accepted a new role as a nonprofit CEO or risk leader. You quickly realize that, before you arrived, no one was formally assigned responsibility for reviewing contracts. When issues arise with vendors, you find incomplete files and partially...
Topics: General
February 23, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Managing Contracting Risk: How Do Your Practices Stack Up?
The expression "nothing is certain except death and taxes," is attributed to Benjamin Franklin. This week, in between reading a terrific book on The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly, I'm pondering a third inevitability for nonprofit organizations: contracting snafus. If...
Topics: General
February 7, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Live Long and Prosper: Strategies for Longevity in Risk and Life
When NRMC meets with prospective consulting clients, they almost always express concern about sustaining their risk management efforts. We hear things like: “We were full speed ahead when we began our ERM program a few years back, but it has...
Topics: General
January 30, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Manage Mission Risk with a Durable Theory of Change
Avoid “mission creep.” Avoid chasing contracts and grants that aren’t a fit for your nonprofit. Put structure around aspects of your nonprofit’s work and goals that can be “squishy.” Attendees at a webinar hosted by the Equitable Recovery Wallet late last year...
Topics: General
December 7, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Secrets of Effective Risk Communication
“Clear, concise, accurate, and timely information is hard to come by.” – General Stanley McChrystal & Anna Butrico, Risk: A User’s Guide During three decades of advising nonprofit sector leadership teams, we have heard and seen that many groups run out...
Topics: General
November 28, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Make Progress in Your Risk Program Real, Not a Mirage
In their terrific book, Risk: A User’s Guide, authors McChrystal and Butrico describe “structure” as one of 10 dimensions of building a “Risk Immune System.” But they caution readers that changing the structure of a function may not necessarily mean the...
Topics: General
November 16, 2022
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
Risk Fundamentals Issue – Fall 2022
Download PDF What's Inside How to Build and Fortify a Critical Incident Process How to Handle the One Thing That’s Certain: Uncertainty Take Action on Risk: Make a Plan, Not a List
Topics: General
November 9, 2022
Resource Type: Articles
How to Handle the One Thing That’s Certain: Uncertainty
What are the big issues your nonprofit’s leaders worry about when they can’t sleep? Racial and social justice? Climate change? Inflation and economic uncertainty? All of the above? Does your nonprofit invest time to talk about these issues and potential ways to...
Topics: General