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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
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Managing Restricted Grants: Routine or Risky Business?
The article below was adapted from Mission Accomplished: A Practical Guide to Risk Management for Nonprofits, published by the Nonprofit Risk Management Center. For more information about NRMC's book, click here. (Mission Accomplished has been replaced by Enlightened Risk Taking:...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
May board members be reimbursed for their expenses?
There are no laws that would prevent a charity from providing compensation to board members for their board service, but the majority of public charities do NOT compensate their board members. More typical is for board members to be reimbursed...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Nitty Gritty of a Risk Committee
“Let’s form a committee!” is the frequent battle cry of nonprofit leaders facing a complex problem for which there are no obvious, immediate or cheap solutions. When more than one brain is needed to ponder a perplexing problem, forming a...
Topics: General