Nonprofit Risk Management Webinar Series

While it isn’t possible to accurately forecast every twist and turn in your agency’s path, it is possible to build resilience and readiness to cope with interruptions to operations, changing customary staffing patterns, and the emerging needs of your community in the wake of a disaster. This webinar explores the importance of evaluating readiness to respond to the risks around the corner. You will learn essential strategies and techniques for extracting information based on past responses to help your agency prepare for the future.

The term “data equity” refers to using an equity lens when considering how data is collected, analyzed, interpreted, and distributed. This webinar explores the risks of failing to use an equity lens and examples of data collection practices that fall short. Watch this webinar to learn how to minimize the risks and maximize the rewards of using an equity lens to collect and use data in your Community Action Agency.

• Guidance & Resources for Managing Coronavirus Risks
• 90-Day Report

Disaster recovery (DR) and agency continuity planning are two risk management disciplines that help agencies prepare to face disruptions with skill and confidence. During this webinar, we explore the distinctions between the two specialties and delve into how to build recovery and continuity skills and ‘muscle’ at your agency. Learn how to spot-and address-weaknesses in your recovery and continuity plans, who to engage in the process, and how to tap into the insights of diverse members of your team. If you thought that a disaster recovery and agency continuity plan could and should be produced by a single team member, think again!

• Business Impact Analysis Worksheet

This webinar outlines practical steps you can take this year to establish best-in-class crisis management and crisis communications capabilities. We explore everything from forming crisis teams and critical operations teams to drafting statements that can be adapted to suit the crisis and more.

This webinar began with an overview of the features and elements that make an action plan truly actionable and continued with an overview of strategies to evaluate your agency’s readiness to face the risks you can’t avoid. Attendees learned how to apply 6 tips and techniques for creating plans that will increase their Community Action Agency’s resilience and readiness. The webinar wrapped up with practical tips and takeaways you can put to use immediately.

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:

• COVID-19 Lessons Worksheet
• Propel Nonprofits — Scenario Budget Planning Template
• Knowledge Capture Worksheet
• Ready, Set, Learn! Get Ready NOW for What’s Next!

This webinar explores three critical stages to create and support a crisis response team: 1. Reflect, 2. Plan, and 3. Practice. You’ll learn how and when planning and response teams differ (in composition as well as emphasis), how to ‘bake in’ lessons from previous crisis events into your planning and response strategies, and why and how the substance and style of your planning activities matter. The webinar also explores approaches to ‘practicing’ what you’ve built before your next crisis is at hand, rules of thumb for your crisis team, and takeaways you can apply to create a crisis-ready response team.

• Handout

We joined Melanie Herman, CEO of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, for a fast-paced tour of resilience resources from various credible sources. This session explored federal and state government websites, law firm and CPA firm sites, educational publishers, membership associations, and specialty organizations. These trusted authority sites offer many free and low-cost resources available to help your agency build resilience. Attendees learned how to maximize and adapt an agency’s learning to suit the needs of their mission.

This final webinar of the series explored the qualities, traits, and skills of resilient leaders — the very type of leaders that organizations in an uncertain world require. Learn what you can do to become a leader who helps others ‘bounce back’ from downside risks your agency couldn’t avoid and draw potent learning opportunities from failures, mistakes, and near misses. Click here to download the presentation handout.