March 23, 2026

Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials

The Fundraising Risk Issue – Spring 2026

Spring 2026 Download Spring 2026 PDF Is This Money Worth The Cost? Top 5 Fundraising Risks - What You Need to Know and Do Donor Stewardship: The Risky Business of Gratitude

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March 23, 2026

Resource Type: Articles

Is This Money Worth the Cost?

When your development director mentions the funding opportunity at a meeting, pulses quicken. The donor’s name rings out. It’s a large corporation that’s made several major grants recently to organizations your team knows. The company has a reputation for funding...

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March 23, 2026

Resource Type: Articles

Donor Stewardship: The Risky Business of Gratitude

Donor stewardship is more than sending a thank-you note or posting an annual report on a website; it is the deliberate, ongoing process of building and maintaining trust with those who invest in nonprofit work. It is a vital, mission-critical...

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March 23, 2026

Resource Type: Articles

Top 5 Fundraising Risks: What You Need to Know and Do

The expression ‘no money, no mission’ reminds each of us that fundraising is fundamental to the health and survival of every nonprofit organization. Whether you raise funds from institutional or individual donors, planned giving or celebratory events, attracting financial support...

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April 3, 2025

Resource Type: Risk eNews

When Financial Stress Hits Your Nonprofit, Try These Steps

By Rachel Sams Right now, many nonprofit leaders are drifting off in thought in meetings or lying awake at night. One of the worries crowding their minds: Amid turmoil in the federal funding many nonprofits rely on, they may have...

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December 30, 2016

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Give Thanks & Fill Your Piggy Bank: Risk-Savvy Year-End Fundraising Appeals

Once again, it’s time to start dreaming of turkey, taters, and cranberry sauce. Soon Thanksgiving will be upon us, which also means it is time for year-end fundraising appeals–an opportunity to give thanks to donors and share a cornucopia of...

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December 8, 2016

Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials

The Fundraising Issue

Download PDF What's Inside Charitable Registration: Resolve to Comply Top 10 Fundraising Risks for Nonprofits

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December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Keep the Crunch but Avoid the Bite in Sales and Fundraising

At a Risk Summit held in Chicago, we featured a workshop exploring the “sales” and “customer service” roles of nonprofit risk managers. The session was well attended by leaders keen to learn how to promote sound risk management and excel...

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December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Articles

Liability Trends for Nonprofit Organizations

Employees. Former employees. Donors. Grantors. Third parties. Fellow board members. You probably don’t like to think of them as liability risks to your nonprofit organization, yet all of them can make your nonprofit the target of a lawsuit. Such lawsuits...

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December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Articles

Don’t Be Ensnared by the Risks of Fundraising

New Book Sheds Light on Fundraising and Collaboration Risks The Nonprofit Risk Management Center has published a new text on the emerging topic of fundraising risks: No Strings Attached: Untangling the Risks of Fundraising & Collaboration. An excerpt from Chapter 4: Individual Donors:...

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