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October 15, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
Designing Great Board Risk Presentations
Have you ever sat through a boring board presentation about risk management—complete with endless slides, spreadsheets, and metrics—and thought, “There has to be a better way?” The good news: You’re right! But we can’t tell you exactly how to do...
Topics: Governance
October 15, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
How to Resolve Risky Governance Dilemmas
While most nonprofit CEOs enjoy celebrating the incredible contributions of their boards, memories of difficult or challenging board members linger long after the board member’s term has expired. And in many cases, CEOs lament their decision to ignore board challenges...
Topics: Governance
October 15, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
Recruit, Train, and Equip an Effective Board
At the core of a thriving nonprofit, you will find an effective board of directors. When functioning well, your board can add value, identify long-term opportunities and challenges, and provide deep advisory insights to an organization. Dynamic, engaged, and well-equipped...
Topics: Governance
October 15, 2025
Resource Type: Articles
How to Forge a Great Risk Management Partnership with Your Board
“The board is getting involved in decisions our staff should make…again.” “Board members worry about the strangest things! We’re working to keep the lights on and they’re asking questions about risks that seem so unlikely.” Do these statements sound familiar?...
Topics: Governance
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