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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Keeping Your Organization Viable for the Future
For generations to come, September 11, 2001, will be remembered as a day in which innocent lives were lost and businesses were destroyed. Yet, it doesn’t take a cataclysmic event to threaten the viability of a business or your nonprofit...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Key Questions: Evaluating CEO Performance
Attorney Eileen Morgan Johnson has developed a list of key questions for the Board and the CEO that can be helpful in a CEO performance review process. Questions for the Board Did the CEO meet the goals that were agreed on between...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Additional Insured
A nonprofit’s commercial general liability policy (CGL policy) goes to great length to specify whom (organizations or individuals) that policy protects. To grasp this, take a look at the Declarations page (dec page) and the section titled “Who Is an...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Knee-Jerk Risk Management?
Should FBI criminal history record checks be required of individuals who work with children? On the surface, the answer to this question would appear to be a resounding yes. Further analysis, however, reveals that a more conditional endorsement of criminal...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Increase your Insurance Buying IQ
The Center is pleased to present Coverage, Claims & Consequences—2nd Edition, a text that takes the mystery out of the process of obtaining insurance for your nonprofit. The second edition of this popular text is now available, hot off the press,...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Increasing Your Liability Protection
Excess vs. umbrella limits Many nonprofit organizations seek to increase the amount of their liability insurance protection for a variety of reasons, such as when — The organization expands, perhaps by internal growth or merger, so that the former liability...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
How Lifestyle Figures in an Appropriate Mentor Match
There is a fine line between gathering the necessary information for making the appropriate match and infringing on the privacy of all parties involved. Yet, the parents’ right to set limits on who they feel is an acceptable match for...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Youth Protection and Child Safety
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Grievance Procedures and Internal Dispute Resolution
Practical Tips for Resolving Internal Disputes Peaceably The following text is excerpted from Section 3 of NRMC’s book: Taking the High Road: A Guide to Effective and Legal Employment Practices for Nonprofits. Having an internal mechanism for resolving disputes is like...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Set the Story Straight with a Financial Dashboard
Take yourself back to college math class; perhaps you studied statistics or calculus. You may have been one of the lucky few who aced every exam, but more likely, you had trouble staying awake during lectures. Numbers can be boring,...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight, Governance
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The AFL-CIO Split: What it Means to Non-Union Nonprofits
At the end of July 2005, during the AFL-CIO's annual convention in Chicago, four of the largest AFL-CIO unions - the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, UNITE-HERE and the United Food and Commercial Workers...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices