Navigating Risk When Risk is Everywhere It’s easy to become overwhelmed, distracted, and even disheartened by the concerning possibilities facing many nonprofit organizations. This webinar takes a fresh look at the concept of risk and offers practical ways to reflect and act in the face of troubling risks while keeping your mission at the forefront. Learn how to harness worry into action plans that will build mission resilience and ready your team for what’s next. This webinar introduces simple ways to understand the concepts of ‘risk’ and ‘risk management’ in the nonprofit sector, and presents practical ways to prioritize top risks and develop action plans related to top risks. Objectives: Participants will be able to: Define and identify key risk concepts through a non-profit lens Prioritize top risks and develop action plans related to top risks Develop strategies to Increase the comfort of talking about and coping with the risks facing…
Risk Management
If you find your team getting stuck while addressing persistent challenges, you might benefit from an updated approach to program improvement. Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a systematic process for identifying challenges, developing and testing solutions, and using data to determine next steps. Join CQI experts from Mathematica who will offer attendees an introduction to CQI. The Mathematica team will also describe resources that can help strengthen your program’s improvement processes. The session will feature a CQI cycle planning tool to help organizations get started or to refresh existing program improvement processes. The session will also explore foundational topics—such as setting up and managing a CQI team and road-testing improvement strategies—and related resources. This webinar is geared for practitioners who are new to CQI as well as those looking to strengthen existing processes. Objectives: Participants will learn: What continuous quality improvement (CQI) is and why it is important How to…
The pandemic has created tremendous disruption across all institutions. Chances are your organization innovated its approach in ways you might want to keep and it is likely the post-pandemic future will not look like the past. Scenario tools can amplify diverse voices and help organizations and communities envision multiple futures in times of uncertainty. Scenario tools surface risks and opportunities to guide the adaptation of programs and operations. This session will teach practitioners the basics of scenario planning and provide a tool to guide responsive planning during times of rapid change. Objectives: Webinar participants will learn: How to compose a scenario planning team to ensure all voices are heard and benefit from many perspectives. How to use a scenario planning tool to surface key uncertainties and possible futures. How to embed scenario planning as a skill to enhance organizational nimbleness. Presenters: Sarah Di Troia, Senior Advisor, Project Evident Resources: Slides Presentation Scenario…