Resources
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
How Climate and Community Will Shape Your Nonprofit’s Future
When you consider how climate change will affect your nonprofit, your first thought might be about the impacts of extreme weather. That’s a good first thought. The phrase “climate change” describes long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, largely driven...
Topics: Climate Risk
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
Climate Change, Defined
We hear the term “climate change” often. But what does it really mean? The term “climate change” describes long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, largely due to human activity. Climate change has caused deaths, community disruption and damage and...
Topics: Climate Risk
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
How to Create a Business Continuity Plan
As the editor of a news organization, I had backup plans for how to get our morning newsletter out every day. We published the newsletter early in the morning, so I often edited and sent it remotely from my house....
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Climate Risk
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
Your Guide to Going Green in Nonprofit Operations
The global Covid pandemic led many nonprofit teams to think anew about the possibilities associated with remote work. Many teams concluded that some roles would be fulfilled by remote staff for the indefinite future. A small percentage of organizations went...
Topics: Climate Risk
July 8, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
A Step-by-Step Framework to Mitigate AI Risk
I have some bad news. You and your team members don’t have all the skills you need to deal with AI risk. Here’s some slightly better news: No one else has all the skills they need to deal with AI,...
July 8, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
Hype vs. Benefit: A Nonprofit Tech Leader’s Perspective on AI
During recent conversations with nonprofit leaders, advisors to nonprofits, and insurance industry executives whose companies focus on serving nonprofits, I’ve heard a wide range of sentiments about artificial intelligence. Some of the people I’ve spoken to are optimistic and excited...
July 8, 2024
Resource Type: Articles
Three Very Human Qualities to Help You Mitigate AI Risk
Experts don’t agree on much about artificial intelligence. But most of them can agree that humans are still the best at interpersonal relations, difficult decisions, and critical thinking. And experts mostly agree that areas where AI can help often involve...
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
A Step-by-Step Guide to Change Management
Many organizational change efforts will fail—up to 70 percent of them, depending on which experts you ask. What makes the difference? What factors make a change take hold, and what can make a change fall flat? I’ve led my share...
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Build a Communications Plan to Support Change
Across NRMC’s client portfolio, employees tell us they’re overwhelmed by time-sensitive requests from all parts of their organizations, on many different platforms. This sense of overwhelm holds true for people who work at three-person nonprofits and those with thousands of...
Topics: General
March 25, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know about Change
Years ago, when I was a reporter for a business journal, the editing team met behind closed doors each week to select stories for Page 1. Then our editor decided to make a change. She told us the team would...
Topics: General