Tags: Volunteer Risk Management
August 31, 2026
Resource Type: Risk Management Essentials
The Volunteer Risk Issue – Fall 2026
Fall 2026 Download Fall 2026 PDF The Changing Volunteer Landscape Craft a Volunteer Training Program That Works Caution, Care and Compassion: Understanding Volunteer Liability Classify Volunteers With Care to Minimize Liability for Misclassification
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
August 27, 2026
Resource Type: Articles
Classify Volunteers with Care to Minimize Liability for Misclassification
In addition to the liability exposures discussed in this article, a nonprofit is also exposed to liability for misclassifying volunteers. In rare instances, volunteers may be considered employees by the federal or applicable state labor departments, triggering liability for minimum...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
August 27, 2026
Resource Type: Articles
Caution, Care and Compassion: Understanding Volunteer Liability
A strong volunteer program offers nonprofits the opportunity to increase mission impact. Yet when a nonprofit retains volunteers, its liability exposure—the legal, financial, or other obligation to another—includes two disruptive possibilities. The first is potential liability for harm a volunteer...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
August 27, 2026
Resource Type: Articles
Craft a Volunteer Training Program That Works
A new volunteer shows up for their first day of service at your organization with a positive attitude. That’s a big plus, because several volunteers no-showed for that day’s client services. The new volunteer has a professional background in your...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
August 27, 2026
Resource Type: Articles
The Changing Volunteer Landscape
A few years ago, I took part in an intensive volunteer project for a local nonprofit, telling the stories of families the organization had supported. The people I interviewed shared stories of the hope and acceptance they’d found in the...
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
May 21, 2025
Resource Type: Webinars
Employee and Volunteer Screening: What You Need to Know
Has it been a while since you took a close look at your employee and volunteer screening? Learn how the screening field is evolving and how your organization can build a fair and thorough process to select individuals who fit your organization’s needs.
Topics: Volunteer Risk Management
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Management Culture and Your Volunteers
We’ve been obsessed with “culture” in recent weeks. At a conference I attended in Toronto in mid-August Nancy Axelrod, governance guru and founding President of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center told an audience of nonprofit CEOs that “culture trumps strategy.”...
Topics: Organizational Culture