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April 24, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
To Reach Your Risk Potential, Tell Better Stories
This month I’ve been obsessively watching Season #1 of The Big Door Prize, on AppleTV+. The show’s mechanical protagonist is Morpho, a machine that—after collecting two bits of Personally Identifiable Information—offers a forecast of one’s ‘true potential’. Reactions from townsfolk to...
Topics: General
March 14, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Tell a Young Person They’re Special This Week
Young people in 2023 face many of the same risks young people faced 20, 50, or 100 years ago, plus a lot more. Children have faced bullies since the beginning of time; now, hateful messages can take more paths behind...
March 7, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Survey Says: Contracting Risk Survey Insights
You’ve just accepted a new role as a nonprofit CEO or risk leader. You quickly realize that, before you arrived, no one was formally assigned responsibility for reviewing contracts. When issues arise with vendors, you find incomplete files and partially...
Topics: General
March 1, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Does Your Nonprofit Live Up to Its Values?
I recently finished reading a thoughtful book titled Strategic Risk Leadership: Context and Cases by Toben Juul Andersen and Peter C. Young. I found Chapter 4, titled “Risk leadership as a moral endeavor,” especially intriguing. In that chapter, the authors write that...
Topics: Organizational Culture
February 23, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Managing Contracting Risk: How Do Your Practices Stack Up?
The expression "nothing is certain except death and taxes," is attributed to Benjamin Franklin. This week, in between reading a terrific book on The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly, I'm pondering a third inevitability for nonprofit organizations: contracting snafus. If...
Topics: General
February 7, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Live Long and Prosper: Strategies for Longevity in Risk and Life
When NRMC meets with prospective consulting clients, they almost always express concern about sustaining their risk management efforts. We hear things like: “We were full speed ahead when we began our ERM program a few years back, but it has...
Topics: General
January 30, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Manage Mission Risk with a Durable Theory of Change
Avoid “mission creep.” Avoid chasing contracts and grants that aren’t a fit for your nonprofit. Put structure around aspects of your nonprofit’s work and goals that can be “squishy.” Attendees at a webinar hosted by the Equitable Recovery Wallet late last year...
Topics: General
January 17, 2023
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
2022 Risk Insights
Can’t bear to consider what unanticipated challenges might lurk around the corner for your nonprofit in 2022? We get it. (Even though, if you’re reading this, thinking about that is probably your job.) As a global pandemic unfolded over the...
Topics: Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity, HR Risk and Employment Practices
January 17, 2023
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
2020 Risk Forecast: Risk Trends Facing Nonprofits
The jovial celebration of each passing year also ushers in a sense of unease and uncertainty: what will we face next? In 2020, nonprofit teams face new risks brought on by global megatrends as well as a few familiar risks...
Topics: Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity, HR Risk and Employment Practices
January 10, 2023
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Do You Know How Much These Nonprofit Jobs Pay?
The Great Resignation continues to play out, as more than 4 million Americans quit their jobs in November. Competitive pay isn’t all it takes to recruit and retain great nonprofit employees—but it’s essential. And inflation has impacted what it takes...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices