Manage Your Nonprofit for Resilience Use Lean Risk Management to Improve Performance and Increase Employee Engagement

A hands-on risk management playbook for nonprofit leaders, funders, and advisors

In Managing Your Nonprofit for Resilience: Use Lean Risk Management to Improve Performance and Increase Engagement, experienced nonprofit risk management expert Ted Bilich delivers a comprehensive and engaging exploration of how to keep your nonprofit vibrant, proactive, and out of trouble. In the book, you'll learn how the world’s best charitable organizations employ lean risk management to prioritize, mitigate, and eliminate the most significant risks facing nonprofits today.

The author teaches you how to develop a risk management cycle and work with risks at the board level, implementing lean risk management tactics incrementally. You'll also discover:

• Discussions of fundamental risk management elements
• Sample compliance checklists, example questions to ask during risk inventories, and common challenges faced by nonprofits in a wide variety of sectors
• Strategies for confronting nascent risk and issues with radical candor and taking reasonable steps to address them before they spiral out of control

An engaging and essential resource for the managers and directors of nonprofits of all sizes, Managing Your Nonprofit for Resilience belongs on the bookshelves of anyone tasked with shepherding a charitable organization through an increasingly challenging and volatile environment.

TED BILICH is the Chief Executive Officer of Risk Alternatives LLC, a consulting firm working with nonprofits and entrepreneurial organizations that helps to identify and address threats and opportunities, confront challenges, and create processes and systems to help mitigate risk and achieve organizational goals.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1—You and Your Nonprofit Deserve Risk Management

Chapter 2—Learn the Language of Lean Risk Management

Part One: Identify

Chapter 3—Perform a Risk Inventory

Part Two: Prioritize

Chapter 4—Prioritize Your Risks

Chapter 5—Create Your Risk Register

Part Three: Respond

Chapter 6—Respond to Your Risks

Part Four: Assess and Improve

Chapter 7—Develop a Risk Management Cycle

Chapter 8—Work with Risks at the Board Level

Chapter 9—Implement Lean Risk Management Incrementally

Conclusion

Appendix 1—50 Reasons Why It Is Hard to Run a Nonprofit

Appendix 2—Questions to Use During Risk Inventories

Appendix 3—Nonprofit Risk Management Policy Templates

Appendix 4—Fundamental Risk Management Elements (Frames)

Appendix 5—A Simple Compliance Topic Checklist

Sources and Methodology

Endnotes

About the Author

Index

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