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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...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Technology: Boon or Bust?
During a recent weekend I spent 24 precious hours with two close friends who live in distant cities—hours that made us feel giddy, as if we had stolen them from our otherwise work and family-filled days. In order to spend...
Topics: Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Facilities Risk Management: Understanding Leasing Exposures
Q: Our nonprofit leases space from other entities for our office and occasional special events. What exposures do we have because of this? A: Leasing relieves you from some obligations and exposures with regards to repair, maintenance and compliance with regulations,...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Do board meetings have to be open to the public?
In some states there are laws known as “Sunshine laws” that require groups to open their meetings to the public, however, these laws generally only apply to governmental or quasi-governmental groups. Unless the nonprofit is a governmental entity, there is...
Topics: General