Tags: Strategy
January 3, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Promise No Consultant Should Make This Year
‘Tis the season for 2024 outlooks to flood our email inboxes (NRMC has one too: our annual Risk Insights white paper, coming soon!). Many of these missives come from consultants who promise to help you “future-proof” and “de-risk” your organization’s...
Topics: General
November 9, 2022
Resource Type: Articles
How to Handle the One Thing That’s Certain: Uncertainty
What are the big issues your nonprofit’s leaders worry about when they can’t sleep? Racial and social justice? Climate change? Inflation and economic uncertainty? All of the above? Does your nonprofit invest time to talk about these issues and potential ways to...
Topics: General
May 11, 2022
Resource Type: Webinars
Fuzzy Futures: Managing Uncertainty with Scenario Planning
Events like the COVID-19 pandemic provide sobering wake-up calls to nonprofit leaders, who must execute their missions today and tomorrow despite unnervingly uncertain futures. To better prepare for surviving unpredictable, unthinkable events or futures far from today’s reality, watch this...
Topics: General
September 25, 2019
Resource Type: Risk eNews
It’s Time to Banish Blueprints and Best Practices
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson When our team is asked, “What should a risk committee do?” or “How should risk roles be...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
It’s a Right Brain, Left Brain World
During a long plane ride to Seattle last Thursday I made additional progress on my journey through Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, the latest book by religious historian Karen Armstrong. In the preface to the book Armstrong cites the research...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Knock, Knock: Purpose Calling
This Friday, I’ll accompany my son as he roams our neighborhood dressed as a caveman. It won’t be NYC’s famed “Fashion Week,” but I’m looking forward to seeing what the “in” costumes look like this year. Like many kids, my...
Topics: Governance
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
The Transition
On Thanksgiving Day, a nation at peace, stuffed with turkey and obsessed with dimpled chads, didn’t even notice a little transition that took place here in our corner of the world. It was a transition that, unlike the presidential transition,...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Resisting the Urge to Assume
Assumptions undergird many of the decisions we make in our personal and work lives. We assume motivation, intent, perspective and more. We see and perceive things that may not exist, and hold tight to beliefs that support the decisions we’ve...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Let’s Get Entrepreneurial
Are nonprofits “entrepreneurial”? Or is the term only applicable to for-profits? The website Dictionary.com offers the following definition of an entrepreneur: “a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.” Effective nonprofit...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Webinars
Risk Management and Strategic Planning
Nonprofit leaders are long accustomed to strategic planning exercises that involve the examination of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The fine-tuning of an organization's vision" and "mission" statements is often part of the process. This webinar will explore ways to...
Topics: General