Resources
Managing Special Event Risk
A nonprofit event can provide lots of magical things: delicious food and drink, your community’s favorite traditions (or new traditions), and great company. Events also bring many potential safety risks. Learn how to mitigate those and have a great event.
Economic Risk: Fortify Your Mission to Withstand Tough Times
Data shows that most nonprofits feel real pain from economic downturns but can recover. Learn how to prepare for the next economic decline—whenever it comes—and emerge stronger on the other side.
Is Financial Oversight Your Weakest Link?
By Melanie Lockwood Herman This week I finished reading a terrific new book, Money Matters for Nonprofits: How Board Members Can Harness the Power of Financial Statements by Understanding Basic Accounting, by Melisa F. Galasso. Melisa kindly sent me a copy after learning about NRMC from a friend, who spoke at this year’s Virtual Risk … Continued
How to Prepare Your Nonprofit for a Recession
By Rachel Sams Economists surveyed by Bloomberg in August put the likelihood of a U.S. recession within the next year at almost 50%. The economists also increased their inflation estimates for each quarter in 2023. That’s worrisome news for nonprofits walloped by the rising cost of supplies and for donors who may have to cut … Continued
Heads Up: Why Fortified Fiscal Oversight is Key to Financial Well Being
By Melanie Lockwood Herman During the past 15 years, I’ve been honored to serve as a volunteer board member for several organizations. My first board role was for a community-based organization in the small village where I live. I had long admired the nonprofit’s historic preservation and conservation mission, and when the invitation to consider … Continued
Events
Head Start Fiscal Integrity Institute
“Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management” and “Risk and Internal Controls”
Eastern Grants Forum 2024
“Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management” and “Risk and Internal Control”
Georgia Community Action Association
“Managing Difficult Human Resource Situations,” “Fraud, Risk and Prevention,” and “Fiscal Risk Management and Internal Controls”
Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG)
“Inspired Governance: How to Lead and Support the Board Your Organization Deserves,” “Artificial Intelligence Risks for Agencies,” “Connect and Lead: How to Overcome Risk Aversion and Embrace the Risks Your Mission Requires,” and “Fiscal Risk Management and Internal Controls”
Georgia Community Action Association
“Fiscal Risk Management and Internal Controls”