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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
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Audit Committee and Its Expanding Role in Risk Management
The National Association of Corporate Directors and The Center for Board Leadership have just published Audit Committees: A Practical Guide.” It is the work of a Blue Ribbon Committee on Audit Committees and will have a major effect on the...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight, Governance
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Setting Your Sites: Fraud Resources on the Web
This month we profile several websites that offer helpful information on fraud prevention. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) website: www.aicpa.org AICPA sells a number of publications that provide very specific guidance on the topics of fraud and fraud investigations....
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Sexual Harassment
Nonprofits are not exempt from sexual harassment claims like those recently in the news for business firms and public agencies. For example, a legal secretary in California received a multimillion dollar verdict against a law firm. A trial in the...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices