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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Riding Out the Hard Insurance Market
What Your Nonprofit Can Do to Survive and Thrive in Deteriorating Market Conditions Across the country nonprofit managers are expressing dismay and frustration about deteriorating insurance market conditions. Having enjoyed a long period of “soft” market conditions, where insurers were...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Stepping Around or Stepping Up?
Coping with difficult risk management issues Recently, my newspaper in San Antonio — and many others across the nation — carried an article1 with a startling headline: “Body lay in kitchen for 2 years.” The headline compelled me to read the...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Lend a Helping Handbook: Employment Policies Worthy of Your Mission
On the first day at a new job, most of us probably arrive wondering things like, “What will it be like to work here?” “What will my role entail?” and “How will I learn everything I need to know in...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Stepping Back: The Outer Rim of Risk
The discipline of risk management invites a close-up examination of events and circumstances that threaten the mission and goals of an organization or that offer the promise of mission-advancing benefit. Nonprofit CEOs, CFOs, senior staff and even board members are...
Topics: Risk Assessment
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Emergency Succession Planning: A New Risk Management To Do
CEO succession has grown to a front-burner issue for nonprofit boards, as Transition Guides and similar organizations have increased awareness of the critical importance of planning for CEO turnover. The risk of departure by a valued executive director is common to most...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Less Is Really More
Nonprofit execs often worry they don’t have enough handbooks, manuals, and guidelines setting forth the organization’s risk management policies. This article suggests that the real worry should be that those documents are overweight and inefficient. The article suggests ways you...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Stop Identity Theft — From the Inside Out
Masters of disguise are using others’ identities to support lavish lifestyles. Using one or two verifiable pieces of data identity, thieves construct a life for themselves and commit someone else’s money to supporting it. Armed with name, address, Social Security...
Topics: Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Rock n Roll n Risk Management
A friend of the Center, who happens to be an accomplished sound engineer, forwarded a terrific article to us this week about how the best rock n’ roll roadies can do things many music fans might believe are impossible. Why?...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Putting on Your Own Mask First
When the Abstract and Reality Collide This February I had an opportunity to hear a presentation by Patti Digh, author of the new book titled “Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally.” Throughout...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Risk on the Road: Managing Volunteer Driver Exposures
Many nonprofits rely on volunteer drivers to help fulfill their programs and services. Whether the drivers are taking seniors to medical appointments or bringing meals or library books to those unable to leave their homes, opportunities abound for volunteers to...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, Volunteer Risk Management