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What is nonprofit risk management, and how can you begin?
In its simplest but strongest form, nonprofit risk management means making a commitment to identify threats and opportunities throughout the organization, prioritize those negative and positive risks, respond to them, learn from these responses, and then repeat this...
7 Critical Questions to Ask if Your Nonprofit Accepts Free Professional Services
Are you putting your nonprofit at risk by accepting free professional services? Nonprofits do tremendous good, but they’re always pushed to do more with less. Pro bono services pose real risk management issues. This post explains why – and what to do about it.
You Get What You Tolerate
“As a leader, you get what you tolerate.” Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations 60 (2004). Nonprofits often hire slowly and fire slowly. Both can hurt the organization. Hiring slowly may allow the best candidates to get away, since in-demand candidates generally don't...
SPLC Faces Long Road After Toxic Culture Allegations
The Bad Press When it rains, it pours. Seven months ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center fired its founder and chief counsel, Morris Dees. Shortly thereafter, its president and legal director also resigned. In the immediate aftermath, the SPLC annoucned that it...
3 Lessons from a “Messy” Nonprofit Divorce
The Bad Press In August 2018, local news outlets and the Nonprofit Quarterly ran stories about the very public exit of a successful and long-tenured president and CEO of the United Way of Lower Eastern Shore. Underlying the dispute, four of nine staff members had left...
Sticking to Its Guns? Learning from the NRA’s Rough Ride
The Bad Press When a charity represents controversial ideas, it can expect its nonprofit risk management to be more complex than most. Recent troubles at the NRA display this dynamic. As news organizations revel in reports of lavish internal spending,...
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