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November 9, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Is Financial Oversight Your Weakest Link?
This week I finished reading a terrific new book, Money Matters for Nonprofits: How Board Members Can Harness the Power of Financial Statements by Understanding Basic Accounting, by Melisa F. Galasso. Melisa kindly sent me a copy after learning about NRMC from...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight
November 2, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
NRMC Launches Website with Free HR and Risk Resources for Nonprofits
This spring, the Nonprofit Risk Management Center convened diverse focus groups of leaders of small and midsize nonprofits. The leaders shared their biggest human resources and risk management challenges. We were awed by the immense responsibilities these leaders juggle to...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
October 24, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Management Should Unite Your Team, Not Divide It
A mature, traditional enterprise risk management model can be a wonderful thing for a nonprofit organization. But then everything could change, and you might need something else. That’s what Tara Thomas and Heather Chadwick of Teach For America learned as...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
October 11, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How to Be the Manager You Wish You Had
“There are two important days in a person’s life—the day you are born and the day that you figure out why.” – Mark Twain During the past few weeks, I’ve finished two books that offer thought-provoking insights on managerial musts—and...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
September 28, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Build Your Cybersecurity Breach Defenses Before It’s Too Late
When a cybersecurity breach hits your organization, it’s too late to build optimal defenses. Your best opportunity to protect your nonprofit’s data exists now. It’s tough for any nonprofit to prepare for a crisis that hasn’t happened yet. Staffs and...
September 21, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Four Simple Steps to Improve Cyberhygiene at Your Nonprofit
Many nonprofits possess huge amounts of valuable data. Plenty of hackers would love to get their hands on the personal data of your employees and the individuals your organization serves, as well as confidential information pertinent to your operations. Over...
August 30, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How to Prepare Your Nonprofit for a Recession
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg in August put the likelihood of a U.S. recession within the next year at almost 50%. The economists also increased their inflation estimates for each quarter in 2023. That’s worrisome news for nonprofits walloped by the rising cost...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight
August 17, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How To Take More Risks In Your Leadership
When I led a newsroom, I learned from staff feedback that my team wanted more support from me. Our news organization had a lot of change initiatives. I spent time with my bosses to understand what changes were coming and...
Topics: General
August 11, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Does Your Nonprofit Have Resilience DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is “a molecule that contains the biological instructions that make each species unique.” (See www.genome.gov). Did you know that certain information about future health risks is embedded in your DNA? Popular DNA test kits offer the promise...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications
August 9, 2022
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Lessons from a Wilderness Survival Expert
Recently I hosted wilderness survival expert Laura Handley while she was in town guiding a crew of day campers in a program sponsored by the nonprofit land trust in my village. Handley is a writer, hiker, and forager who once...