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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
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Operational Risk Management: A Word from the Wise Guys
Although a growing number of nonprofit leaders profess to be ready for Enterprise Risk Management, a far greater number admit that their operational risk management programs are far from adequate. What is operational risk management? The term refers to risk...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Sustaining Nonprofits During Economic Downturns
When economic downturns reduce household incomes and lower investors’ and consumers’ confidence in the economy, nonprofits face especially troubling times. On one hand, most nonprofits’ incomes fall during these recessionary times: private contributions decline as individual, corporate, and foundation donors...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Swimming With Sharks and Other Perils of Special Events
‘Tis May, ’tis May, the merry month of May, when thoughts turn to sports competitions, street fairs, music festivals, parades and other special events. It’s a wonderful time of year to promote a nonprofit’s name, encourage participation of a new...