Categories: Risk Basics
August 13, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Don’t Wait Till You Know Everything to Do Something
By Rachel Sams This year, the NRMC team has worked with brilliant nonprofit leaders and teams who feel knocked about by uncertainty. Some of these talented, thoughtful leaders worry that they don’t have enough information about how the upheaval in...
Topics: Risk Basics
April 3, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
When Financial Stress Hits Your Nonprofit, Try These Steps
By Rachel Sams Right now, many nonprofit leaders are drifting off in thought in meetings or lying awake at night. One of the worries crowding their minds: Amid turmoil in the federal funding many nonprofits rely on, they may have...
Topics: Risk Basics
April 1, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Own It: Failure as a Springboard to Success
By Melanie Lockwood Herman As a teenager, I was bursting with excitement when Mum and I set off to the DMV in Danvers, MA to take my driver’s exam. A year prior, my older sister returned home from her exam...
Topics: General, Risk Basics
March 17, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Your Top Risks are Mysteries, Not Puzzles
By Melanie Lockwood Herman It may not surprise you that many people who are drawn to risk management are undaunted by puzzles. At NRMC we often hear a commitment to “figure this out,” or “sort and rank our risks.” My...
Topics: Organizational Culture, Risk Assessment, Risk Basics