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3 Ways to Avoid Nonprofit Risk Management Burnout
I’ll just say it up front. You will get distracted. Your efforts will ebb and flow. You will not have a linear or exponential journey along your Lean Risk Management Success Path. Like anything else worth doing, nonprofit risk management takes time and effort. For...
Lenrow Lopez to Join The Wikimedia Foundation as Enterprise Risk Management Principal
With both sadness and pride, Risk Alternatives announces that our Director of Operations, Linda Lenrow Lopez, is leaving to join The Wikimedia Foundation as Enterprise Risk Management Principal. “Linda has been instrumental to Risk Alternatives’ growth over the past...
Nonprofit Risk Management for a “Post-COVID World”
Many nonprofit organizations are trying to grapple with unprecedented uncertainties. With the pandemic, social unrest, political divisiveness, racial reckoning, climate change, and a host of other issues growing on the horizon, which are the most important issues and...
What is Nonprofit Compliance?
Unfortunately, stories abound of nonprofits that commit employment law violations, allow impermissible conflicts of interest, or violate fundraising law. Every time one of these reports surfaces, the nonprofit sector suffers another black eye, and public confidence...
As a matter of basic nonprofit risk management, your nonprofit should mandate vaccines
UPDATE 8/23/21 - A number of events have occurred in the past few days that strengthen our recommendation that nonprofits should mandate vaccines for their employees, subject to bona fide religious and health exceptions. First, the FDA has approved the Pfizer vaccine...
How does nonprofit risk management relate to sound governance?
Are you trying to explain to a friend how nonprofit risk management relates to sound governance? Try this approach. Think of it this way. Let us say you are at the court of an ancient King. The King gives you 10 talents of gold and instructs you to transport as...