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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...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Defining Disability
Three U.S. Supreme Court decisions narrow the definition of who is a qualified individual with a disability for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The rulings provide that if an individual is able to mitigate fully the effects...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Data Privacy and Cyber Liability: What You Don’t Know Puts Your Mission at Risk
If you were a long-time donor to a nonprofit, and just learned that your credit card details provided to the nonprofit to make a donation are now in the hands of a hacker, would you ever trust that organization again?...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Take Children Safely Out to the Ballgame
Organized sports and recreation can improve physical fitness, coordination, self-discipline and teamwork, but these beneficial activities put participants at risk for injury unless precautions are in place. Half of organized sports-related injuries are preventable, reports the National SAFEKIDS Campaign. It’s a...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Tame Junk E-Mail
Take Me Off Your Spam List! If you’re being lambasted with junk e-mail known as spam, you need to solve the problem. Not only does it expose staff to unsavory/unwanted messages, it steals time from productive assignments, it’s a security...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Teambuilding: Rx for Crisis Survival
New Book Offers Practical Tips for Anticipating, Preventing and Surviving a Crisis The following article is excerpted from a new book from the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, Vital Signs: Anticipating, Preventing and Surviving a Crisis in a Nonprofit. For more information, click...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Fear, Failure and What’s Next
My colleague Diana Del Bel Belluz recently sent me the link to an episode of the CBC Radio program Tapestry, hosted by Mary Hynes. The episode, titled “To Err is Human” explores a number of subjects, including two of my favorites—failure and...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Tech Risk Q & A
Q: What questions should we ask the references of a prospective new tech vendor? A: Checking references for any new vendor is a good idea and sound risk management practice. When checking references for a new technology vendor, try to ask questions...