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July 30, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
How to Navigate Insurance Needs in Vendor Relationships
Imagine that at your organization’s next event, a guest trips over a cord for the audiovisual equipment, falls, and sustains a serious injury. The guest makes a claim for damages. Who would be liable for any damages awarded? Your nonprofit?...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
July 30, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
Maximize the Relationship with Your Insurance Advisor
Single people often turn to dating apps to look for prospective partners who meet their very specific wants in a long-term ‘plus one.’ Friends and family members who have opted for this route to companionship tell me that would-be dates...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
July 30, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
Facing the Challenges of a Changing Insurance Marketplace
While building an appropriate nonprofit insurance portfolio always takes care and focus, some nonprofits are finding that obtaining coverage can be especially difficult these days. Amid a challenging market, this article aims to give you a refresher on key insurance...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
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