by Gail Nayowith | Jul 16, 2018 | Risk Management
The nonprofit business model presents a unique environment for risk. There are six challenges that are carried by most nonprofits as a matter of course. These risks are viewed as the price of doing business in the nonprofit sector and they are vastly different from...
by Ted Bilich | Jul 10, 2018 | Risk Management
Your nonprofit may have great plans, but if you do not have a realistic awareness of your risks, those plans are merely hopes and dreams. Because of this simple truth, the first step in nonprofit risk management should be a risk inventory: a thorough identification...
by Ted Bilich | Jun 26, 2018 | Risk Management
In the first eight installments in this series about lean risk management (LRM), we have explained why risk management is important and made the case that nonprofits should implement risk management processes after they exit the startup phase, if not before. In the...
by Ted Bilich | Jun 4, 2018 | Risk Management
Noted consultant and widely-respected nonprofit practitioner Gail Nayowith is partnering with Risk Alternatives as a Senior Consultant to provide expanded risk management services around the nation. Gail will be resident in New York City, but will provide work on risk...
by Ted Bilich | May 24, 2018 | Risk Management
Tonianne DeMaria is an accomplished writer and trainer who co-authored the excellent book, Personal Kanban: Mapping Work, Navigating Life. I swear by this methodology, which is an intuitive application of lean thinking to personal and professional productivity. In...
by Melissa Howard | Apr 26, 2018 | Risk Management
In this podcast, Ted Bilich explains why most nonprofit strategic planning is nothing more than strategic hoping or, at best, mere strategic intuition. Unless an organization performs some basic risk management prep work, its strategic planning will have a foundation...
by Melissa Howard | Apr 17, 2018 | Risk Management
Any new initiative involves costs and commitments. Risk management is no different. At what point, then, is it advisable for a nonprofit to implement a risk management process? This post answers that question. Stages of Nonprofit Growth A nonprofit’s growth can be...
by Ted Bilich | Apr 12, 2018 | Nonprofits, Podcasts
In this podcast, host Ted Bilich explains three steps every nonprofit should take concerning risk management. Each step takes nothing more than reading and reflecting on a basic organizational document — your bylaws, your articles of incorporation, and your...
by Melissa Howard | Apr 3, 2018 | Risk Management
In our last post, we explained how the human brain creates risk management challenges. In light of those issues, in this post we describe nine core commitments that enhance the likelihood of risk management success. We also provide questions for reflection and...
by Melissa Howard | Mar 20, 2018 | Lean Practices, Risk Management
We tend to think that humans objectively accept information about their surroundings and circumstances, process that data accurately, make careful predictions about the likely effects of various actions, determine the best course of action, and follow that course....
