Federal funding cuts are forcing nonprofit organizations to confront unprecedented financial risks. Learn how to protect your organization with strategic risk assessment and financial planning before...
I spent years watching nonprofit leaders treat enterprise risk management like a compliance checkbox. Fill out the forms. File them away. Check the box for the board. Then something changed…
In 2025, small to mid-sized nonprofits confronted an unprecedented convergence of risk: AI-enhanced cybersecurity threats, severe financial instability, and increasingly complex regulatory compliance demands. Organizations with formal scenario planning, technology infrastructure investments, and strategic financial management survived. Those relying on hope rather than systematic risk mitigation closed their doors. This analysis presents operational lessons and evidence-based strategies from two decades of executive-level nonprofit leadership.
Enterprise risk management for nonprofits isn't optional anymore. The CIO calls the CEO at 6am. The computers are locked. Ransomware. Then comes the cascade. Does anyone know if we have insurance? Who needs to be notified? What about the board? Marketing scrambles to draft a statement for donors.
What I'm seeing in the nonprofit sector keeps me up at night.Organizations with budgets over $1 million are adopting AI tools at nearly twice the rate of smaller nonprofits—66% versus 34%. And that...
I recently analyzed interview transcripts from a nonprofit's past crises using AI. The executive team thought they were describing five separate problems—a grant compliance issue, a financial reporting delay, a…
Most nonprofits think they're ready for AI. The data tells a different story. We’ve been tracking something that should terrify every nonprofit leader. While 82% of nonprofits now use AI,…
Here's what I discovered when I built my first Enterprise Risk Management program at a major university. Risk plans were treated like insurance policies. Filed away in drawers, forgotten…
I've watched nonprofit executives destroy their organizations with with “CEO ADHD”. They start a project, get distracted by the next opportunity, then abandon the first initiative before seeing results. The…
Eighty percent of nonprofits have no cybersecurity response plan. Let that number settle for a moment. These same organizations handle sensitive donor data, manage vulnerable populations, and operate critical community…
