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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Making Net Gains
Staying Safe While Making a Name for Your Nonprofit on the Internet The following article is adapted from a chapter on managing the risks of Web functionality and content featured in a new book by the Nonprofit Risk Management Center...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Protecting Vulnerable Clients from Abuse
This article is an excerpt from a chapter of the Center’s soon-to-be-released publication, Exposed: A Legal Field Guide for Nonprofit Executives, by Melanie Lockwood Herman and Mark E. Chopko. To pre-order a copy of the book, which will be shipped or...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Trying My Patience
“Patience is quiet hope and trust that things will turn out right. You wait without complaining. You are tolerant and accepting of difficulties and mistakes. You picture the end in the beginning and persevere to meet your goals. Patience is...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Lessons From the High Road
New Edition of Employment Law Nonprofits Defensible Policies The article below is excerpted from the Introduction to Taking the High Road: A Guide to Effective and Legal Employment Practices for Nonprofits — 2nd Edition, just released by the Nonprofit Risk Management...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
The Essence of Youth Protection: Rules, Reporting and Consequences
Organizations are obsessed with ferreting out sexual predators and preventing them access to young people. Unfortunately, in their zeal to do this, organizations focus too much on the sexual predator, and not enough on the safety of the children they...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Professional Liability and Governance Exposures: A Closer Look
Of the myriad of exposures encountered by nonprofit organizations, two are frequently unappreciated and confused: exposures resulting from the consequences of corporate governance and exposures resulting from errors and omissions associated with the delivery of professional and paraprofessional services. The...
Topics: Governance, Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Private, Keep Out!
Meeting Your Clients’ Expectations of Privacy Online I would not call myself a runner. Yes, I do jog for exercise a few times a week, but to me a runner is someone who competes in races, wears a number, and...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Eye of the Beholder: Managing Reputation Risk
William Shakespeare unknowingly offered timeless wisdom to risk management professionals immersed in crisis planning when he wrote: “The purest treasure mortal times afford is a spotless reputation.” Yet no amount of wishful thinking will ensure that a spotless reputation will...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
EEOC Resources Offer Valuable Help
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the enforcement body that will challenge an employer’s hiring or employment practices when a discrimination complaint is lodged by an employee, a former employee or an applicant. However, the EEOC is also in...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Preventing False Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse
Recently there was a story in The Washington Post about a Montgomery County, MD schoolteacher who had been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by seven sixth grade students. The teacher was immediately suspended and his life was turned upside down. Upon closer...