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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Relocating Risks: A Primer for Nonprofits on the Move
The lease you negotiated 5 to 10 years ago is sweet in today’s market. However, the renewal price per square foot is likely to cause more than sticker shock. The monthly rent could wipe out your reserves or seriously strain...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Think Again: What You Don’t Know but Should About Interviewing & Reference Checking
“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” — Katharine Hepburn Walking into an interview is like walking into a pressure-cooker. As an applicant, you sense that the interview is your best chance at winning a job. Most nonprofit...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Risk Management Strategies for Nonprofits Serving Young Adolescents If youth is the season of hope, it’s often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
There’s No Mystery to Your History: Using Background Checks in the Screening Process
Most nonprofits use some type of background check to vet potential employees and volunteers. However, the term “background check” is used to mean very different things by different people. Sometimes the term is used loosely to refer to a variety...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
What’s a Pilot?
The term “pilot project” is often used by nonprofit leaders to describe an experiment with something new. “We’re embarking on a pilot project” may refer to an experiment with strategy, target audience to be served, or a newly formed partnership...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Theft of Funds is Not Covered by Insurance
Theft of Funds Is Not Covered by Insurance This article first appeared in Don Kramer’s Nonprofit Issues, and is reprinted here with permission from the publisher. For more information on Nonprofit Issues, visit www.nonprofitissues.com. The employee dishonesty provisions of a standard insurance...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight, Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Transition
On Thanksgiving Day, a nation at peace, stuffed with turkey and obsessed with dimpled chads, didn’t even notice a little transition that took place here in our corner of the world. It was a transition that, unlike the presidential transition,...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Human Resource Risks and the Forest of Fog
If you have read (or read to your kids) the latest in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, at times you may find yourself identifying with the young Mr. Potter. Raised in a world of ordinary humans, at the...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Six Tips for Playing it Safe: At Work, At Home, On the Web
We have all heard the saying, To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.” The fact is, computers do not foul things up, people do. But computers allow us to foul them up faster, more efficiently...
Topics: Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
I Have a Complaint!
NOTE: NRMC is unable to provide assistance to individuals who want to lodge complaints against nonprofits, and we are unaware of any agency whose sole purpose is to accept or respond to complaints. We invite you to review the suggestions...
Topics: General