Tags: Fundraising Risk
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
Topics: General
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...
Topics: General
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...
Topics: General
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...
Topics: General
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...
Topics: Risk Basics
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...
Topics: General
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
Topics: General
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...
Topics: General
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...
Topics: Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity, HR Risk and Employment Practices
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:...
Topics: General