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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Creating an Effective Employee Handbook for Your Nonprofit
Employers often use handbooks and manuals to inform employees of their employment policies and to enforce their at-will policies. Although no express employment contract exists, courts have held that handbooks and manuals can be implied contracts if the language creates...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
My Generation Reaping the Rewards of a Multigenerational Workforce
Nonprofit missions require high performing, collegial work teams. And increasingly, nonprofit workplaces are staffed by individuals from three, four or even five generations. These intergenerational staff teams are charged with delivering services and programs that advance ambitious, communityserving missions. During...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices, Organizational Culture
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Managing Holiday Party Risks
It’s time to celebrate! Whether your nonprofit landed a new grant, improved service to consumers, or logged a record number of volunteer hours this year, a celebratory party is overdue. Office parties are a great idea for numerous reasons. They...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Contemplating Coverage: Insurance for Nonprofits
Are you suddenly responsible for buying insurance for your nonprofit? Or perhaps you have been responsible for some time but have just realized that there are a few gaps in your understanding of what you buy, why you buy it...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Waivers and Young Participants
Except in very rare instances*, a contract signed by a minor** is voidable by the minor until he or she reaches the age of majority. A “voidable” contract is legally binding on both parties unless the minor chooses to void...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Zero Tolerance for Workplace Violence
Key Component of Workplace Safety Workplace safety is one of those better-safe-than-sorry areas of management where prevention is critical. Although an organization’s hiring and supervision policies appear to preclude violent behavior in the workplace, early intervention helps prevent more serious...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Be Proactive in Times of Crisis
The unexpected happens. Even with insightful planning and sound risk management—people are injured, fires destroy, and investments evaporate. When “stuff happens,” savvy nonprofits know that action is needed and that action has to be communicated to stakeholders. Speaking recently about...
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