Categories: Risk Basics
January 6, 2026
Resource Type: Risk eNews
NRMC’s Most Popular Articles of 2025
The NRMC team always learns something when we look back at the articles that resonated most with our audience of nonprofit risk professionals each year. As we paused to look back this week, we learned that nonprofit risk leaders long...
Topics: Risk Basics
January 6, 2026
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Manage Post Holiday Burnout Risk With These Simple Steps
Last month our team received a handful of out of the office auto-replies referring to the recipient taking time off to refresh and recharge. In our experience, returning from time away can feel like a perfect storm with pressure to quickly...
Topics: Risk Basics
December 19, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
To Be a Better Risk Leader, Fly Like a Hawk
On one of the warmer days last week (a balmy 45 degrees), I hiked the woods on my best friend’s property. I was joined by my trusty four-legged companion Braxton, but we both were a little surprised by our other...
Topics: 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
July 17, 2024
Resource Type: Webinars
Managing Special Event Risk: Lay the Foundation for Safety
Board members can be great partners for your nonprofit’s leadership when it comes to risk management. And that shouldn’t involve the board getting into operations. Learn how to have informative, productive conversations about risk with your board.
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, Risk Basics