Categories: HR Risk and Employment Practices
March 25, 2025
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Human Resources Issue – Spring 2025
Spring 2025 Download PDF What's Inside Background Screening for Nonprofits: What to Consider How Unionization is Impacting the Nonprofit World How to Maximize the Benefits of Hybrid Work
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
March 25, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
How to Maximize the Benefits of Hybrid Work
I was recently at a dinner party where, inevitably, we found ourselves talking about work. One guest raised his frustration with his company’s hybrid work policy, saying he feels doubly taxed by the challenges of managing people in person and...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
March 25, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
How Unionization is Impacting the Nonprofit World
The word “union” is being heard more frequently at nonprofits—from boardrooms and leadership meetings to employee chats in the breakroom or on videoconference. Fifteen years ago, it was relatively unusual to hear about nonprofit unionization campaigns, but that’s changing. “Employees...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
March 25, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
Background Screening for Nonprofits: What to Consider
By Rachel Sams When making job offers in a previous role, I often said some version of the sentence: “I want to let you know that this offer is contingent on the completion of a background check.” Several job candidates...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
May 15, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Generational Risk: How to Know Someone Older (or Younger) Than You
Have you ever been on the receiving end of a colleague’s frustration about a co-worker? When you’re at your wit’s end, expressing exasperation to another human doesn’t make you better, but it may make you feel better. I’ve noticed that...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
November 1, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Workplace Violence Prevention and Preparedness Strategies for Nonprofits
This article contains information about prevention and preparedness strategies for workplace violence, including physical assaults and mass shootings. When was the last time tempers got heated at your nonprofit? Did two or more employees clash? Did people receiving services argue...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
October 11, 2023
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Workplace Violence Risk Issue – Fall 2023
Fall 2023 Download PDF What's Inside What Nonprofits Need to Know About Conflict De-Escalation How to Create and Iterate Firearms and Weapons Policies Workplace Violence Prevention and Preparedness Strategies for Nonprofits
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
October 11, 2023
Resource Type: Articles
How to Create and Iterate Firearms and Weapons Policies
Safety at work is top-of-mind for employees across the diverse nonprofit sector. In some workplaces, employees feel comfortable sharing their concerns about the risk of workplace violence, mass shootings, terrorism, and other events that potentially put them in harm’s way....
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
October 11, 2023
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
What Nonprofits Need to Know About Conflict De-Escalation
Imagine you’re the director of client services at a nonprofit that serves unhoused people. You hold an open house to educate the public about your work and the challenges unhoused people face. A community member aggressively and repeatedly questions your...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
September 29, 2023
Resource Type: Articles
How to Report on Risk to Your Board
Have you been asked by the Board to provide a risk report or briefing? It’s natural to be a little nervous about that. But an open dialogue about risk can build trust, shape strategy, and help your nonprofit better execute...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices