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February 4, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How to Simplify and Streamline During a Crisis
By Melanie Lockwood Herman “An infinite-minded leader does not simply want to build a company that can weather change but one that can be transformed by it. They want to build a company that embraces surprises and adapts with them.”...
January 27, 2025
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Cultivate Your Risk Manager Superpowers
When was your last big risk management win? Did you feel like you’d earned your superhero cape? Reflecting on our successes can help us build on areas where we excel as risk managers. It can also help us identify areas...
Topics: General
January 16, 2025
Resource Type: Webinars
Cultivate Your Risk Manager Superpowers
Remember your last big risk management win? Did you feel like you’d earned a cape? We explore the “superpowers” great risk leaders tap every day, and how to cultivate them. https://vimeo.com/1047270784/773ffac9ea?ts=0&share=copy HANDOUT: Cultivate Your Risk Manager Superpowers
Topics: General
December 16, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
NRMC’s Most Popular Risk Articles of 2024
By Rachel Sams This year, the risk managers in NRMC’s audience navigated competing demands to stay open to possibilities yet have all the answers. They sought a sense of calm and tools to help their nonprofit build resilience in the...
Topics: General
December 10, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Learn, Don’t Ruminate, About Past Disruptions
By Melanie Lockwood Herman “That could have been so much worse!” I replied to a friend telling me about his disrupted morning commute due to a tire sidewall failure on a busy highway. After the conversation ended, it occurred to...
December 2, 2024
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Maximize Your Risk Learning in 2025
By Rachel Sams In early 2023, I attended a webinar that encouraged nonprofits to approach artificial intelligence with curiosity, rather than fear. At the time, the explosion of generative AI, which allows users to create text and other media, gave...
November 18, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Good Problems: Why Risks (Possibilities) Are Exactly What Your Mission Needs
By Melanie Lockwood Herman I’ve recently finished a book by the blogger Mark Manson. I found many delightful surprises in Manson’s writing, and a few unnerving ones. While I embrace the knotty dilemmas in risk management, I recognize that many...
November 14, 2024
Resource Type: Webinars
Insurance Myths and Facts for Nonprofits
Everything you know about insurance might be wrong. Join NRMC for an engaging session that will dispel myths about nonprofit insurance, break down the facts, and give you a better understanding of how to approach insurance at your nonprofit. HANDOUT:...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing
November 12, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
Optimist or Pessimist? Risk Management Needs Both.
By Melanie Lockwood Herman I’ve just returned from a wonderful vacation with a college friend I’ve known for many decades. During our adventures in a place neither of us knew much about, we reveled in our shared interests and marveled...
October 31, 2024
Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews
5 Steps to Better Risk Communication
Years ago, a boss confided in me about a personal issue that would impact her work schedule. She asked me to briefly tell each of the team members I managed about the issue, so they’d know why she was out...
Topics: General