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Risk Management Webinars
Presented by the Nonprofit Risk Management Center
These one hour webinars provide a balanced and practical review of the risks inherent in the operations of nonprofits. Each webinar and accompanying handouts are packed with information and resources. Excellent for staff, board or key volunteers. Durham Arts Council purchases the webinar series and then makes each session available for $10 per organization. Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Card accepted.
Risk and Decision-Making
January 4, 2PM.
We’ll begin the 2012 series with a fast-paced program exploring the intersection between risk-taking and decision-making. Find out how to overcome the biases and traps that lead to poor decisions, and learn how to tap your growing awareness of risk in your nonprofit's internal and external environments to enhance the decisions you make in 2012.
Managing Social Media Risk and Reward
February 1, 2PM
Social media tools offer low cost, engaging and creative ways to engage a wide array of stakeholders. Yet like any tool deployed to advance your nonprofit’s mission, there’s plenty of downside risk along with potential reward. Register for this webinar to learn about the risks caused by intentional as well as unintentional conduct on the part of employees, volunteers, members and others. Learn what you can do to better appreciate and manage the risks that arise from social media use, including uses within and outside your span of control.
Nonprofit D&O: What's New and What You Need to Know
March 7, 2PM
Nonprofit Directors' and Officers' liability coverage ("D&O") has evolved from the early days when only a slightly customized corporate form was offered to nonprofit buyers. Today nonprofit D&O is often the first coverage purchased by start-up nonprofits and regarded as a "must-have" coverage in many nonprofit insurance portfolios. Attend this webinar to learn about how the coverage has changed over time, how claims against nonprofits and nonprofit boards have evolved over the years, and what you need to look for when selecting a policy in today's highly competitive marketplace. We'll spend 20 minutes on each topic during this fast-paced, informative program.
Risk-Aware Contracting: What You Don't Know Could Cost You
April 4, 2PM
Contracts are unavoidable. They are the mainstay of relationships with independent contractors, vendors, other service providers, landlords, to name a few. Yet negotiating sound contracts requires time, understanding and some practical experience with contracting potholes and pitfalls. Center Advisor and author Mark Chopko cautions that contract planning requires equal measures of “planning for performance” and “planning for trouble.” The expert presenter for this webinar will identify common contracting mistakes and offer practical steps to steer clear of the dangers that lurk in the contracts your nonprofit will execute in the year ahead.
Risk and Reward: Protecting Your Tax Exempt Status
May 2, 2PM
This webinar will explore strategies for protecting your nonprofit’s tax exempt status. Critical topics that will be covered include: the importance of key governance policies, making sure that your nonprofit generates the “right” kind of revenue, managing joint ventures and other revenue-generating programs to minimize exemption and UBIT risks, and steering clear of “deal breakers,” including private inurement and political activities. Stop worrying about threats to your nonprofit’s tax exempt status; register today!
Financial Due Diligence: It's More Than Checking Boxes
June 6, 2PM
Due diligence and risk management are inextricably linked. Many leaders think of due diligence in the context of managing the risks of contractual arrangements, partnerships or new business ventures. Some may see due diligence as a "checking-the-box" process that boils down to confirming facts. This narrow view trivializes the process. Effective due diligence requires the willingness to look for indicators that may signal unusual or unexpected risks. Done properly, due diligence should offer information and insights beyond re-statements of fact. This session will focus on financial due diligence using actual financial statements.
Reporting Success: What’s the Risk?
July 11, 2PM
Savvy donors want to know more than how much of their dollars went to “programs” versus “overhead” or “fundraising” expense: they want to know what progress your nonprofit is making to advance its ambitious mission. Failing to track and demonstrate impact puts your mission and sustainability at risk. Success in today’s nonprofit world is more than how many people you served, how many events you sponsored, or how many "friends" you have a popular social media site. Attend this webinar to learn how to appreciate and manage stakeholder expectations and how to tell your “success story” in a manner that is transparent, accurate and compelling.
Protecting Vulnerable Populations
August 1, 2PM
Attend this webinar to learn about best practice strategies for protecting members of vulnerable populations from harm caused by criminal acts, negligence and accidents. In addition to exploring “best practice” approaches learn about critical, evolving challenges facing leaders of nonprofits that serve vulnerable clients. If your nonprofit serves children, the elderly or persons with disabilities, you won’t want to miss this fast-paced program.
Human Behavior and Risk Management
September 5, 2PM
When a nonprofit adopts a risk management “framework,” deputizes members of a risk management committee, and approves a set of slick policies that have been blessed by counsel, one would expect that the organization's risk management journey will be relatively smooth and uneventful. But not if there are human beings in the mix! This webinar will explore how somewhat predictable human behavior can impede the realization of risk management strategies and policies. Learn about the importance of ownership behavior in employees, how to inspire truth-telling, and what steps are key to jump starting true collaboration in your risk management program.
Managing Special Event Risks
October 3, 2PM
Special events continue to be popular in the nonprofit sector. Whether your upcoming event is designed as a fundraiser, as a way to raise awareness for your mission or cause, or both, an assortment of risks will be featured along with the plentiful buffet and enthusiastic crowd. Attend this webinar to learn “what’s new” in special events risk management. Find out what you can do today to better appreciate the risks associated with events, and what you can and must do if something goes wrong when you set the stage, unroll the red carpet or simply promise an “unforgettable” event.
Crisis Management and Crisis Communications
November 7, 2PM
A crisis is any event that threatens your nonprofit’s survival or ability to advance its mission. A crisis demands your immediate focus. This webinar will explore the critical steps and planning required before a crisis hits. Find out what you should be doing today to ensure that your nonprofit will be in the strongest possible position to survive a crisis that is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine.
Calibrating Your Nonprofit’s Risk Appetite: Candid Conversations at the Board Table
December 5, 2PM
Many nonprofit leaders report a sense of being either “risk takers” or “risk averse.” Yet it is unusual for the entire leadership team to share the same level of comfort with highly uncertain outcomes. This webinar will explore the concept of “risk appetite” in a nonprofit organization. Topics to be discussed include: how to engage the board in a conversation about the nonprofit’s appetite for uncertainty, and how to ensure that decision-making at all levels of the organization is in sync with the overall risk appetite defined by the board. Find out how to have a conversation about taking bold risks with a board that clings to the status quo, or how to raise risk issues gracefully in an environment where “anything goes!”