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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
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Insurance Fails to Cover Drunk Driving Accident
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. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post has no insurance to defend it against a suit for injuries...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Insurance for Cyber Losses
Cyber insurance protects against damages to computers and computer systems caused by human error or as a result of malicious attacks and crimes, including fraud, unauthorized access, theft of customer information and Web site sabotage. Loss of income from the...
Topics: Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity, Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Care and Feeding of a Healthy Organization
Healthy nonprofits are committed to maintaining a steady, robust income stream; developing and implementing sound investment strategies; and paying daily attention to accounting controls. Robust Income Streams Truly healthy nonprofits enjoy diverse funding sources. They protect the continuity and stability...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight