Resources
COI: Candor Or Inhibition? Managing Conflicts Of Interest
By Erin Gloeckner Hopefully gone are the days when nonprofit stakeholders might sweep potential conflicts of interest under the rug. Nonprofits are held to high standards of ethics, which call upon nonprofit leaders to candidly assess real or perceived conflicts of interest. As charitable enterprises continue to evolve in terms of complexity, performance, and notability, … Continued
An Eye for Ethics: Quelling Confusion about Ethical Quandaries
By Melanie Lockwood Herman Most nonprofit leaders would enthusiastically agree that ethical conduct and core values are key to the success of their community-serving missions. Yet among your co-workers and peers, how acute is awareness of ethical dilemmas in every-day decisions? Do colleagues have the skills and patience to slog through ethical questions when they … Continued
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Not all questions have specific or concrete answers, and many risk questions have no clear answers. Expert colleagues may be aunable to pinpoint answers for us, or a panel of experts will individually present their own analysis. Even experts are biased by their own past experiences, and experts sometimes tell clients what they want to … Continued
Gibberisk: Risk’s Mangled & Made-up Words
By Melanie Lockwood Herman Have you ever exuberantly crooned the chorus of a popular song and later discovered that you had mangled the lyrics? Today’s music fans can use a search engine to quickly verify the lyrics of a favorite tune. But when I was a kid (!), I recall being completely surprised by the … Continued
How to Conduct a Risk Assessment
By Melanie Lockwood Herman To say that the term risk assessment has many meanings is an incontrovertible understatement. My Google search of the phrase what is a risk assessment yielded more than 127 million results in an astonishing .88 seconds! From time to time at NRMC we ponder what the phrase means, and why it’s … Continued