Categories: Volunteer Risk Management
December 30, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Valiant Volunteerism
Community service is a way of life for some folks, and those folks help nonprofit missions move forward each day. My own experiences volunteering at a health clinic, a community event planning board, and an animal shelter were in some...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 29, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Termination Trepidation: Disciplining & Terminating Volunteers
Have you ever stayed in a failing relationship even when you knew it wasn’t working out? Or worse–even when you knew it was bad for you? Pulling the plug on bad relationships is a critical skill in both the personal...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 8, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Senior Volunteers: A Priceless Resource
Note: This article is excerpted from the Nonprofit Risk Management Center’s book, No Surprises: Harmonizing Risk and Reward in Volunteer Management—5th Edition. Seniors are participating as volunteers for nonprofit organizations in record numbers. Participants include AmeriCorps—formerly Senior Corps, the federally-funded national “network...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 8, 2016
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Volunteer Issue
Download PDF What's Inside Developing Risk Management Policies for Your Volunteer Program Employee or Volunteer: What’s the Difference? Volunteers, Social Media and Risk
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Tempting But Confusing and Dangerous: Paying Volunteers Just a Little Something
A thoughtful, appreciative board or executive director may want to pay a nonprofit’s volunteers “just a little something” beyond reimbursing individual volunteers for their expenditures on the organization’s behalf. Some nonprofits rationalize a monetary gift as a demonstration of thanks...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Employee or Volunteer: What’s the Difference?
Nonprofit organizations frequently depend on the service and commitment of volunteers as well as the labor of employees. The skills and talents of both types of workers bring nonprofit missions to life. At first glance, the simple difference between these...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Keeping Volunteers Safe From Harm: Street Smarts for Unfamiliar Turf
Volunteer safety takes many forms in a community-serving nonprofit. From a thorough orientation program to “on-the-job” training, careful supervision and incident follow-up, nonprofits have various opportunities to help their volunteers stay safe. Start at the Beginning Don’t assume that you...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Screening Update
The results of a study of volunteer screening practices by the National Center for Victims of Crime reveal gaps in the volunteer screening practices of nonprofit organizations. Twelve percent of the organizations participating in the survey reported that they did not engage...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Insurance for Volunteer Programs
The following article is excerpted from Chapter 9 of No Surprises: Harmonizing Risk & Reward in Volunteer Management, 3rd Edition. Claims Against the Volunteer Fear of incurring personal liability for volunteer service isn’t uncommon among the estimated 90 million Americans who...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing, Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Spotlight on People: Managing Volunteer and Employee Risks
When Does Compensating Volunteers Turn Them Into Employees? Last year the questions flowing from the Center’s newsletter article on this issue were surprising. We didn’t realize that so many organizations find ways to “pay” their volunteers in small, and sometimes,...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Volunteer Risk Management