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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Resources for Developing or Revising Conflict of Interest Policies
The following resources may be helpful in developing or revising a conflict of interest policy: Instructions to IRS Form 1023, Application for Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3). Appendix A contains a sample conflict of interest policy. Sample policies available from...
Topics: Governance
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Reality TV and Risk Management
This article first appeared in riskVue, the Webzine for risk management professionals. For more information, visit www.riskVue.com. When the first generation of reality TV programs debuted in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was appalled. The ratings for programs like COPS (1989)...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Staff Training: Neglected Element of the Risk Management Equation
Nonprofit leaders are quick to rank staff training as an important goal in the workplace. During discussions with funders and other external stakeholders many managers tout the commitment of their organizations to provide inservice training to paid and volunteer personnel....
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Leaving With the Captain?
A colleague recently asked me to contribute some ideas for her presentation to an audience interested in evacuating aged and disabled occupants from high-rise residential buildings. Born with cerebral palsy and never able to stand, I believe my experience as...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
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