Resources
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
December 23, 2019
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Reputation Risk Issue
Winter 2019/2020 Download Infographic
Topics: General
December 23, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
A View to the Horizon: Managing Reputation Risk
A famous Peanuts cartoon uses a cruise ship as an analogy for life. In the cartoon, Lucy explains that some people place deck chairs at the back of the boat to see where they have been, while others place their...
Topics: General
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
August 15, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Good Measures: Reassessing Your Social Media Response
Frustrated flyer? Take to social media and dispute it with the airline, looping in one of the top executives with an @ sign. Have a small apartment mailbox clogged with fliers, special offers and unwanted catalogues? Want to stop receiving...
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Reputation versus Reality: “Mind the Gap!”
If you have ever had the good fortune to travel to London you may have heard the expression, “Mind the gap!” This admonition is broadcast to subway riders so that when they step out of the subway car, they won’t...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Eye of the Beholder: Managing Reputation Risk
William Shakespeare unknowingly offered timeless wisdom to risk management professionals immersed in crisis planning when he wrote: “The purest treasure mortal times afford is a spotless reputation.” Yet no amount of wishful thinking will ensure that a spotless reputation will...
Topics: General
August 4, 2010
Resource Type: Webinars
Reputation Risk: What’s in a Name?
A nonprofit’s reputation is a vital asset on which it depends. Yet that asset is at risk everyday and many leaders feel powerless to evaluate the degree to which reputation is at risk and respond capably when the brand” is...
Topics: General