Resources
Recession Risk: Look Back and Forward to Fortify Your Mission
By Rachel Sams How are you sleeping these days? Many nonprofit leaders might struggle to fall asleep due to worries about the economy. Experts believe 2023 will bring a U.S. recession, despite the economy making a stronger showing than expected at the end of the year. Fannie Mae, which finances mortgages, predicts the U.S. economy … Continued
How To: Create a Cross-Training Action Plan
Cross-training is an essential risk management function. It ensures someone in your organization can perform key tasks if the person who usually handles them is out of the office or unavailable for any reason. But cross-training has other benefits too: it can offer employees new challenges, help reduce staff turnover, and break down silos in … Continued
How to Build Your Nonprofit’s Resilience
A resilient organization has a strong foundation to weather adversity and bounce back better. With forethought and planning, all organizations can become more resilient. Here are nine ways to do it. Don’t rely on one source for your organization’s essentials. Have multiple sources for your nonprofit’s key supplies and services. If your nonprofit is small and … Continued
Manage Mission Risk with a Durable Theory of Change
By Rachel Sams Avoid “mission creep.” Avoid chasing contracts and grants that aren’t a fit for your nonprofit. Put structure around aspects of your nonprofit’s work and goals that can be “squishy.” Attendees at a webinar hosted by the Equitable Recovery Wallet late last year shared these phrases to describe what a theory of change … Continued
How to Handle the One Thing That’s Certain: Uncertainty
By Rachel Sams What are the big issues your nonprofit’s leaders worry about when they can’t sleep? Racial and social justice? Climate change? Inflation and economic uncertainty? All of the above? Does your nonprofit invest time to talk about these issues and potential ways to address them? Or do leaders move from one pressing day-to-day … Continued
Events
National Multiple Sclerosis Society – Risk Management CEO Advisory Committee Meeting
“Top Legal Risks Facing the Nonprofit Sector”
Loudoun Chamber – Nonprofit Initiative
“Reckoning with Risk: Building Resilience and Readiness in a Nonprofit”
Missouri United Methodist Foundation
“Resilient Leadership: A Mission Imperative for Church Leaders”
New York Alliance for Inclusion & Innovation
“Emerging Leaders Training, Part 2”
New York Alliance for Inclusion & Innovation
“Emerging Leaders Training, Part 1”