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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Your Staff Has a Thousand Eyes
Only the very largest nonprofits in the U.S. — about one in a thousand — have a person on staff with a job title like “risk manager” or “insurance manager.” Instead, the most direct responsibility for preventing or financing recovery...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Your Special Skills in Managing Risk
Sifting for Truth This column focuses on how executive directors and other senior managers of community-serving nonprofits can use the special knowledge and skills they apply in advancing their nonprofit’s mission to manage their organizations’ strategic risk management. Everyone, to...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Your Special Skills in Managing Risk
Recognizing Conflict, Reaching Consensus This is the first in a series of columns asking you to consider how the special knowledge and skills that executive directors and other senior managers of community-serving nonprofits apply in advancing their nonprofit’s mission can...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
How to Bring the Power of Intuition to the Discipline of Risk Management
In her thought-provoking book, Artistry Unleashed, Hilary Austen lays out a framework for tapping surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity and change to improve personal performance. To a traditionalist, risk management theory and practice seem to be at war with Austen’s invitation to embrace...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Workplace Stress
Tackling Stress Improves Morale, Productivity and Safety This article is excerpted from the Center’s brand-new, free online resource titled, Workplace Safety Is No Accident — An Employer’s Online Toolkit to Protect Employees and Volunteers. Rising workplace stress is a large albatross...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Workplace Safety Preserves and Protects
Workplace safety is about preventing injury and illness to employees and volunteers in the workplace. Thus, it’s about protecting the nonprofit’s most valuable asset: its staff members. By protecting the staff’s well-being, you can reduce the amount of money paid...
Topics: Facility, Program and Transportation Safety, HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Background Checks, Screening and Your Nonprofit
The term “background check” means different things to different people. Some nonprofit leaders use the term loosely to refer to a variety of screening tools, such as criminal history background checks, credit checks, reference checks, or the verification of prior...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Youth Protection and Child Safety
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Avoid Transition Trauma with a CEO Succession Plan
CEO succession planning can be a touchy subject. Members of a nonprofit board may fear the risk of insulting a CEO by suggesting the topic as an agenda item. Some CEOs may feel disinclined to raise the subject because it...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Avian Flu Precautions
A recent made-for-TV movie has given rise to questions from caring nonprofit leaders about what they should do to prepare for a potential avian flu pandemic. The answer is to step back from the fear the word "pandemic" engenders and...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Code of Conduct Sample
S A M P L E This form may be adapted to use with preteen or teenage participants in your program. You may wish to make the language less formal or the vocabulary less sophisticated, depending on the developmental stage...