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June 20, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
6 Risk Trends that Matter to Your Mission
Yesterday I read with interest Kate Barr’s new blog post titled 8 Trends in the Nonprofit Sector. Kate is the President & CEO of Propel Nonprofits, an organization that supports nonprofits in Minnesota and adjacent states. Propel’s finance factsheets, worksheets...
June 12, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Social Distortion, Personal Responsibility, and Reputational Risk
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” – Cool Hand Luke, 1967 This week I’ve been reading Rethinking Reputational Risk: How to Manage the Risks that can Ruin Your Business, Your Reputation and You, by Anthony Fitzsimmons and Derek Atkins. In...
Topics: General
May 29, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Egalitarian Risk Leadership: Flatten or Fatten?
In our capacity as advisors and coaches, the NRMC team develops and adapts risk management frameworks, strategies and tools for the complex nonprofits we serve. No two consulting clients or Affiliate Members are the same. To make the consideration of...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
May 21, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Surviving and Thriving in the Wake of a Data Breach
In this article, Glenn Mott speaks with Greg Walters, Associate General Counsel for Litigation for the Peace Corps, where he provides comprehensive litigation and compliance assistance to an organization with 7,000 volunteers in 65 countries. His areas of experience include...
May 2, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Use Design Thinking to Find Creative Solutions to Worrisome Risks
“Some of our important choices have a timeline. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus, an opportunity may be missed.”– James E. Faust As disruption—rapid...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
April 24, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
If Ruminating on Risk Inspires Worry, You’re Doing it Wrong
During a recent risk workshop, one of our participants commented, “Thinking about all of the potential risks facing my organization makes me really worried!” Her remark reminded me of the distinction between what many leaders believe is the narrow purpose of risk...
Topics: General
April 10, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Rewarding Risks: The Prodigious Power of Volunteers
It’s National Volunteer Week, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of volunteers and the indelible impact that volunteer service makes on communities across our country. In the promotional materials for National Volunteer Week, the Points of Light Foundation reminds us that: “Whether online, at...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
April 3, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Out of Focus: How Being Less Focused (and More Aware) Pays Off
Mindfulness, like it’s complement gratitude, has been much hyped—with good reason. Our underlying mindset and conditioning are nearly invisible to most of us; by itself, the conscious mind is insufficient to get at the deeper mindset. Nonjudgmental, present-moment awareness (aka mindfulness...
Topics: General
March 18, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
5 Winning Ways to Wrestle Recruitment Risk
If your nonprofit hasn’t already faced the difficult challenge of attracting new staff to fill the shoes of departing rock stars, get ready! According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), an estimated 7.8 million jobs will need to...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
March 14, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Heartfelt Risk Lessons From an Authoritarian Piano Teacher
If you learned to play a musical instrument as a child, like I did, then you may agree that music appreciation does not always happen in the first few lessons. How many of us wish that our 10-year-old selves had...