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December 2, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Maximize Your Risk Learning in 2025
By Rachel Sams In early 2023, I attended a webinar that encouraged nonprofits to approach artificial intelligence with curiosity, rather than fear. At the time, the explosion of generative AI, which allows users to create text and other media, gave...
November 18, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Good Problems: Why Risks (Possibilities) Are Exactly What Your Mission Needs
By Melanie Lockwood Herman I’ve recently finished a book by the blogger Mark Manson. I found many delightful surprises in Manson’s writing, and a few unnerving ones. While I embrace the knotty dilemmas in risk management, I recognize that many...
November 14, 2024
Resource Type: Webinars
Insurance Myths and Facts for Nonprofits
Everything you know about insurance might be wrong. Join NRMC for an engaging session that will dispel myths about nonprofit insurance, break down the facts, and give you a better understanding of how to approach insurance at your nonprofit. HANDOUT:...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
November 12, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Optimist or Pessimist? Risk Management Needs Both.
By Melanie Lockwood Herman I’ve just returned from a wonderful vacation with a college friend I’ve known for many decades. During our adventures in a place neither of us knew much about, we reveled in our shared interests and marveled...
October 31, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
5 Steps to Better Risk Communication
Years ago, a boss confided in me about a personal issue that would impact her work schedule. She asked me to briefly tell each of the team members I managed about the issue, so they’d know why she was out...
Topics: General
October 2, 2024
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Climate Risk Issue – Fall 2024
Fall 2024 Download PDF What's Inside How Climate and Community Will Shape Your Nonprofit's Future Climate Change, Defined How to Create a Business Continuity Plan Your Guide to Going Green in Nonprofit Operations
Topics: Climate Risk
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