Categories: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Do You Need a New Broker? Here’s Your Sign!
This article first appeared in riskVue, the Webzine for risk management professionals, and is reprinted with permission. In 1997 Comedian Bill Engvall released the best-selling comedy album of the year, a work that introduced millions of Americans to the comedian’s favorite...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Kids Are All Right
The beginning of the school year offers a reminder to children and teens that learning isn’t always easy, that hard work generally pays off, and that rules and limits often exist to keep us safe. The same can be said...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing, Youth Protection and Child Safety
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
“Everything’s Fine? We’ve Got Insurance!”
Have you heard these jubilant words from your staff or board lately? Even worse, do you comfort yourself with this thought whenever some accident strikes your nonprofit? If so, then everything definitely is not fine within your risk management program....
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Myths of Volunteer Risk Management, Part 2
This is the second of a series on common myths associated with the risks of using volunteers in nonprofit organizations. We’ll look at each myth for its impact on liability assessment, the purchase of insurance, and risk management planning. Myth...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing, Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Contemplating Coverage: Insurance for Nonprofits
Are you suddenly responsible for buying insurance for your nonprofit? Or perhaps you have been responsible for some time but have just realized that there are a few gaps in your understanding of what you buy, why you buy it...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Be Thankful… By Getting Ready
Countless Americans will take time this week to pause and give “thanks”—for healthy families, for regular employment, and for a beautiful meal prepared with skill and love. During these reflective moments many of us will think about the nonprofit sector...
Topics: Governance, Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Webinars
Back to the Future: Long Term Planning and Investment Strategies
The need to look into the future and how to approach that process will be explored in the May program in the Center's 2010 series of webinars. The program will examine long-term financial planning and investment strategies from a risk...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Abuse Coverage Isn’t as Elusive as a Needle in a Haystack, but It Will Cost You
Hardening market conditions cause nonprofit risk managers to lose sleep and patience after receiving nonrenewal letters, notices of changes in the terms and conditions of coverage, and word from weary brokers and agents explaining that the same or less coverage...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Beyond the Bend in the Road
The Nonprofit Risk Management Center Offers Predictions for the Year Ahead Never content to live in the present, we humans are always either looking ahead or looking back. The excitement surrounding the dawn of a new century seems to have...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Better Knowledge Enhances the Insurance-Purchasing Decision
What Nonprofits Can Learn from Recent Headlines The expression, "knowledge is power? comes to mind when reading about the recent civil suit filed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer against the world's largest insurance broker. According to Business Week,...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing