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July 8, 2025
Creative Ways to Rank and Sort Your Top Risks
Risk leaders tell NRMC that sorting and ranking top risks is an expected activity in a nascent or mature risk program. In NRMC’s experience, the classic way to sort and rank risks is time-consuming, unproductive and uninspired. Join this hands...
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...
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....