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March 25, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
How to Maximize the Benefits of Hybrid Work
I was recently at a dinner party where, inevitably, we found ourselves talking about work. One guest raised his frustration with his company’s hybrid work policy, saying he feels doubly taxed by the challenges of managing people in person and...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
March 25, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
How Unionization is Impacting the Nonprofit World
The word “union” is being heard more frequently at nonprofits—from boardrooms and leadership meetings to employee chats in the breakroom or on videoconference. Fifteen years ago, it was relatively unusual to hear about nonprofit unionization campaigns, but that’s changing. “Employees...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
March 25, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
Background Screening for Nonprofits: What to Consider
By Rachel Sams When making job offers in a previous role, I often said some version of the sentence: “I want to let you know that this offer is contingent on the completion of a background check.” Several job candidates...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
November 18, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Good Problems: Why Risks (Possibilities) Are Exactly What Your Mission Needs
By Melanie Lockwood Herman I’ve recently finished a book by the blogger Mark Manson. I found many delightful surprises in Manson’s writing, and a few unnerving ones. While I embrace the knotty dilemmas in risk management, I recognize that many...
November 12, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Optimist or Pessimist? Risk Management Needs Both.
By Melanie Lockwood Herman I’ve just returned from a wonderful vacation with a college friend I’ve known for many decades. During our adventures in a place neither of us knew much about, we reveled in our shared interests and marveled...
October 31, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
5 Steps to Better Risk Communication
Years ago, a boss confided in me about a personal issue that would impact her work schedule. She asked me to briefly tell each of the team members I managed about the issue, so they’d know why she was out...
Topics: General
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
How Climate and Community Will Shape Your Nonprofit’s Future
When you consider how climate change will affect your nonprofit, your first thought might be about the impacts of extreme weather. That’s a good first thought. The phrase “climate change” describes long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, largely driven...
Topics: Climate Risk
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
Climate Change, Defined
We hear the term “climate change” often. But what does it really mean? The term “climate change” describes long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, largely due to human activity. Climate change has caused deaths, community disruption and damage and...
Topics: Climate Risk
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
How to Create a Business Continuity Plan
As the editor of a news organization, I had backup plans for how to get our morning newsletter out every day. We published the newsletter early in the morning, so I often edited and sent it remotely from my house....
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Climate Risk
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
Your Guide to Going Green in Nonprofit Operations
The global Covid pandemic led many nonprofit teams to think anew about the possibilities associated with remote work. Many teams concluded that some roles would be fulfilled by remote staff for the indefinite future. A small percentage of organizations went...
Topics: Climate Risk