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Risk Management

This section includes resources to assist you with general risk management issues for your program.


	Child Sexual Abuse Risk Exposure Matrix Screening volunteers to prevent child sexual abuse: a community guide for youth organizations.
	Helping Nonprofits through Difficult Times By Pamela E. Davis - Insurance Journal Insurance availability for nonprofits with increasing costs of premium and cutbacks in donated funds.
	Mentoring Essentials: Risk Management for Mentoring Programs by Dustianne North and Jerry Sherk Includes information on: assessing risk; anticipating risk; strategizing to reduce risk; preparing participants for risk; troubleshooting problems and preventing crisis.
	Nonprofit Risk Management Center Publications Your nonprofit may be liable for injuries or accidents that occur within your rented space, and some, but not all, damages to the space you rent.
	Risk Management Brief: Federal Law Protects Nonprofit Volunteers Act reduces standard of liability to gross negligence, flagrant indifference
	Risk Management: Risk Management FAQs from Alliance for Nonprofit Management The site provides the frequently asked questions regarding risk managment, the development of a risk management program, how to avoid the affects of risk mangement, etc.
	Understanding the Volunteer Protection Act An unfortunate consequence of the states - volunteer immunity laws has been the creation of a false impression that volunteers are immune from lawsuits.
	Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 In 1997, President Clinton signed into law the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 (Act) that, generally speaking, provides immunity from tort claims that might be filed against the volunteers of nonprofit organizations.
	Volunteer Risk Management Tutorial This free, on-line tutorial will help your organization manage the risks of using volunteers. It tests your knowledge about risk management and helps you improve practices you already have in place.
	Volunteering Is Inherently Risky Every organization must grapple with its own tolerance for risk. This article asks whether we are selling out volunteer potential by allowing fear of lawsuits to challenge our desired activities.