Tags: Partnership Risk
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Partner with Care and a Prenuptial Agreement
Throughout the year, countless brides and bridegrooms come join together, happily anticipating a lifetime of wedded bliss. Many nonprofits engage outside consultants and vendors in the hope that these “unions” will enable the nonprofit to achieve some aspect of its...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Beyond the Bend in the Road
The Nonprofit Risk Management Center Offers Predictions for the Year Ahead Never content to live in the present, we humans are always either looking ahead or looking back. The excitement surrounding the dawn of a new century seems to have...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Best Friends Forever? Don’t Be a Naive or Disappointed Partner
At some point in our childhood, many of us share a ‘best friends’ gift with another person. For me, it was a set of necklaces that fit together like puzzle pieces. One necklace belonged to me, and the other belonged...
Topics: General
November 29, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Vetting Partner Organizations & Drafting MOUs
It takes more than a handshake between friends, neighbors or colleagues to ensure that collaboration will succeed. If your want to feel as good about your partners, the results and yourself coming out as going in to a joint project,...
Topics: General
July 30, 2015
Resource Type: Webinars
Stir the Pot: Effectively Requesting Proposals and Evaluating Vendors
Do you have a current vendor who is just a bad egg? Do you have a program area where there are simply too many cooks in the kitchen? If your organization’s current vendors aren’t working out the way you’d like,...
Topics: General
June 2, 2014
Resource Type: Webinars
Nonprofit Mergers: A Sum is Stronger than its Parts
Nonprofits merge for a variety of reasons. Common motivations to merge include: the opportunity to more efficiently serve a shared constituency, as a response to funder pressure, or to prevent the mission of an organization in decline from disappearing altogether....
Topics: General
April 6, 2011
Resource Type: Webinars
Managing Partnership and Collaboration Risk: What You Need to Know
Partnering is second nature for many nonprofit leaders. Yet enthusiasm for partnering may create blind spots that obscure our view. Without a clear picture nonprofit leaders with good intentions may stumble. This webinar will explore practical steps for sizing up...
Topics: General