THE NONPROFIT RISK BOOK

Chapter 2Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management

One reason we wrote The Nonprofit Risk Book is to take the guesswork out of what should be standard management practice within all nonprofits and NGOs. Once we started untangling the lessons learned from high profile nonprofit closures, we concluded that what seemed like a basic management tool was absent too often to be a simple oversight. We returned again and again to the operating reality of most nonprofits and NGOs—that leaders throughout the sector have their hands and plates full. There is seemingly no time in these lean organizations to hunt down hidden problems... until a crisis or tragedy strikes. The idea of this book is to help you build a risk management program and toolkit ...