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Our Favorite Resources

MANAGING RISK

COACHING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL PLANNING

Risk Management

Managing Risk

Risk management is an emerging area for nonprofits with recent reports, toolkits and articles to guide the field

Becoming a Nonprofit Risk Leader: Four Ways to Build

Your Organization's Proactive Muscle

Risk Management for Nonprofits: A Brief Guide (Wendy Seligson Consulting article laying out positive framework for nonprofits

Ahead of the Curve Symposium Report on Risk Management: Defining, Assessing and Managing Risks at Nonprofits (authored by Wendy Seligson)

Turbulence Ahead: 10 Questions for Nonprofit Boards to Urgently Ask and Answer (by Ruth McCambridge, editor Nonprofit Quarterly)

Risk Management Toolkit (Open Road Alliance guide to the philanthropic community provides useful framing for nonprofits)

Risk Management for Nonprofits (SeaChange Capital Oliver Wyman report highlighting Board action steps)

New York Nonprofits in the Aftermath of FEGS: A Call to Action (Human Services Council Commission report which includes risk management-related recommendations)

Coaching & Professional Development

Staff Development

Staff are a nonprofit’s greatest resource.

Here are some recent favorites on developing executive leaders and middle managers.

Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements: Which Do You Need to Work On? (Harvard Business Review article by Daniel Goleman and Richard E. Boyatzis)

Emotional Intelligence Competencies

(More Than Sound article)

A Framework for Great Nonprofit Leadership

(Bridgespan article by Libbie Landles-Cobb and

Bridgespan Insights, useful tools and resources on leadership and management

Business & Financial Planning

Biz+Financial Planning

FMA and the Nonprofit Finance Fund produce valuable tools and resources on nonprofit financial management. Check out their websites for the full range of their materials.

Strongnonprofits.org (contains over 60 free tools created by FMA with support from the Wallace Foundation);

see also FMA Training and Resources

Maximizing Nonprofit Internal Controls, An Essential guide for Even the Most Pure (a conversation with Hilda Polanco FMA & Ruth McCambridge Nonprofit Quarterly)

Nonprofit Finance Fund - Fundamentals for Nonprofits (easy to use tools and resources)

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