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July 5, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
All Aboard: Embracing ERM in Your Nonprofit
If you’ve been hearing references to Enterprise Risk Management or ERM frameworks you’re probably wondering whether this particular incarnation of risk management is relevant to your organization. You may also be wondering whether transforming a perfectly good risk management function...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
July 3, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
Three Risk Trends to Keep in Mind as you Enlist Volunteers
In my work with nonprofit teams, I am repeatedly impressed with the array of terrific volunteer programs that support nonprofit missions; that positive impression swells when I observe smart risk management practices in volunteer recruitment and supervision. I experienced first...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
May 7, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
High or Dry: Weed and the Workplace
Is your nonprofit workplace a “drug-free” zone? Although nonprofit leaders are in agreement that impaired staff pose an unacceptable risk to the safety of people who serve and receive services, the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana creates a host...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
May 7, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
Dream a Little Dream: Managing Sleep Deprivation Risks
Our ambitious 24/7 lifestyles, filled with unbalanced diets, low physical activity, excessive electronic media use, and psychosocial stress, are causing a precipitous decline in our sleep. But the safety implications of sleep deprivation have been known for decades. Precipitating causes...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
May 7, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
Don’t be Dispassionate: How to Use Emotional Impulses to Make Better Decisions – Full Article
“Heuristic / you risked it.” —Hank Lazer Recently, I had an opportunity to read a special issue of the Harvard Business Review called “The Brain Science Behind Business”—a compilation of previously published articles about neuroscience. Reading these articles got me thinking about...
Topics: General
March 13, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
Risking It All to Save the World: An Analysis of Risk Management Practice and Risk Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
The risk management discipline continues to evolve and gain traction across the nonprofit sector, with organizational leaders recognizing risk management as a mechanism for loss prevention, quality improvement, informed decision-making, and mission advancement. Using results of two recent surveys conducted...
Topics: General
February 28, 2019
Resource Type: Articles
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
Elastic, by Leonard Mlodinow, is available from Amazon and other booksellers. The NRMC team is pleased to feature this book review from Felix Kloman, a former member of our board and long-time student of the discipline of risk management. A graduate...
Topics: General
November 13, 2018
Resource Type: Articles
Competition: A Risk Aware Definition
To voice the word “competition” is to summon the idea of defeating or establishing superiority over others. People sometimes modify this by adding the word “healthy” to competition, as a sign of good intentions. Which only emphasizes the point. Competition,...
Topics: General
November 13, 2018
Resource Type: Articles
Collaboration: Building the Intentional Partnership
Motivations to collaborate run the gamut from the desire to access talent and resources to satisfying funders or other stakeholders, conserve financial resources, or bolster recognition and awareness of your cause or services. Collaborations can be a test drive for...
Topics: General
September 5, 2018
Resource Type: Articles
Right Back At It: Fostering Organizational Resilience
“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” – Woodrow Wilson Resilience is often defined as the ability to recover after a setback or in the face...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning