track: Basics
May 6, 2025
The Crossing: How to Navigate a Difficult Insurance Market and Secure the Risk Financing Your Mission Requires
This session explores strategies for navigating from an unprecedented ‘soft market’ to today’s hardening insurance marketplace. As many Risk Summit attendees are well aware, property and casualty coverage renewal periods are testing the patience and stressing the budgets of nonprofits...
May 5, 2025
Risk Help Live: Shore Up Your Risk Management Supports
One of NRMC’s most popular member benefits is “Risk Help,” where members can call or email NRMC for advice on a pressing risk issue. This year, only at Risk Summit, Risk Help is open to all! Explain your thorniest risk...
August 1, 2025
Talking Rainfall, Risk, & Resilience
Flash floods devastated parts of Texas and New Mexico this year, highlighting the increased frequency and intensity of rainfall extremes in recent years. This has sparked important conversations about emergency preparedness and community resilience in the face of natural disasters....
June 27, 2025
Chaos to Calm: Practical Crisis Management Planning for Nonprofits
Crisis: The turning point, for better or worse; an emotionally significant event; the decisive moment (Merriam Webster). 60% of nonprofits do not have a documented Crisis Management Plan in place (Charity Preparedness Index). Is your organization one of these? Could...
May 15, 2025
Board Engagement and Transformation: Managing Risk and Maximizing Impact
Nonprofit boards have significant legal, moral, and oversight responsibility to the missions they serve. Yet many board members come equipped with passion and enthusiasm, but without a clear understanding of how to navigate their role as members of a governing...
March 13, 2025
Workplace Safety: Back to Basics
A beautiful art installation in a museum doesn’t hint at the dangers that could lurk in the corner of an artist’s studio. Yet, most artists are aware of how their mediums affect health and safety, those that aren’t pay the price.