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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...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Let’s Get Entrepreneurial
Are nonprofits “entrepreneurial”? Or is the term only applicable to for-profits? The website Dictionary.com offers the following definition of an entrepreneur: “a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.” Effective nonprofit...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Dysfunctional Characters Often Sit at the Board Table
The character types described below are from “20 Dysfunctional Board Member Character Types,” by Eileen Johnson, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP. Reprinted with permission from the author. Board Chairs Dictator — The Chair as Dictator does not believe in seeking advice...
Topics: Governance
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Preventing Crime on Your Premises
Imagine the shock of discovering that one of your employees, volunteers, or service recipients has been the victim of a crime. Now, imagine the even worse shock of discovering that the crime was committed on your organization’s property, and that...