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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Do You Need a New Broker? Here’s Your Sign!
This article first appeared in riskVue, the Webzine for risk management professionals, and is reprinted with permission. In 1997 Comedian Bill Engvall released the best-selling comedy album of the year, a work that introduced millions of Americans to the comedian’s favorite...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Risk Management and Religious Organizations
Melding Practicality and Spirituality in a Risk Management Program When a senior pastor recently proclaimed, "God would not let a faithful church burn down," an opportunity for the church business administrator to discuss church safety and security issues was lost....
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
People — Your Most Pivotal Resource
Three large groups of people are essential to your nonprofit’s success in pursuing its mission: Your staff (including your officers, employees, and volunteers) who jointly perform all the planning, speaking, driving, carrying, cooking, cleaning, negotiating, decision-making, and all the other...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Five Things That Should Never Appear in an Employee Handbook
An employee handbook is a valuable risk management tool when it lays down the organization’s expectations and spells out the consequences if employees don’t live up to the expectations. There are numerous resources available to help guide you with regard...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Partner with Care and a Prenuptial Agreement
Throughout the year, countless brides and bridegrooms come join together, happily anticipating a lifetime of wedded bliss. Many nonprofits engage outside consultants and vendors in the hope that these “unions” will enable the nonprofit to achieve some aspect of its...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Risk in the Cloud
Remember the craze over beanie babies in the 1990s? I was just a kid during the 90s, so I innocently endorsed that craze. My parents suffered through my childhood, spending heaps of money when I demanded to have the next...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Developing Risk Management Policies for Your Volunteer Program
There is no single way or ideal approach to managing the risks that arise from volunteer service. In No Surprises: Harmonizing Risk and Reward in Volunteer Management, the Nonprofit Risk Management Center explores various facets of risk associated with volunteer programs...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Kids Are All Right
The beginning of the school year offers a reminder to children and teens that learning isn’t always easy, that hard work generally pays off, and that rules and limits often exist to keep us safe. The same can be said...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing, Youth Protection and Child Safety
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
How to be the Worlds Smartest Risk Manager
I’ve just finished the National Geographic book, “How to Be the World’s Smartest Traveler.” Who doesn’t want to be the world’s “smartest” anything?! As a big fan of the expression, “don’t believe everything you read,” I had no expectation of...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Managing Special Event Risks
Co-authored by Joe Risser and Melanie Lockwood Herman Summer is here! Like predictable summer storms, high temps and visiting relatives, public entities from coast to coast are planning and presenting a wide range of special events. With our children home...
Topics: General