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April 17, 2025
Stable Yet Flexible: Build the Artificial Intelligence Policy Your Nonprofit Needs
Artificial intelligence can help your team members spend more time on high-impact work. But AI also presents safety, security, and ethical risks to nonprofit teams and constituents. Learn to build a flexible AI policy to undergird your team’s decisions on...
April 17, 2025
Risk Communication
How risk is communicated is a foundational element in building the bridge that allows a nonprofit’s internal and external constituents to understand risk management. This session provides insights into identifying and understanding different audiences, creating platform specific messaging, and evaluating...
May 5, 2025
Risk, Compliance, Ethics and Internal Audit: Disparate Functions or Members of the Same Team?
Leaders from growing, complex nonprofits often encounter a similar ponderous question: how to stand up risk, compliance, ethics, and sometimes IA without breaking the bank or creating warring fiefdoms. This workshop explores potential synchronicities and tensions between the goals and...
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...
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...
March 13, 2025
How to Design a Risk Assessment Survey and Lead a Risk Identification Exercise
Found a mysterious painting in the attic? Or maybe there’s some folklore that the picture hanging in the hallway is an unsigned Remington. Your organization’s risks might be a lot like all the unknown works of art – they need...