Ted Bilich - Managing Your Nonprofit for Resilience: Use Lean Risk Management to Improve Performance and Increase Employee Engagement

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Running a nonprofit can be exhilarating, messy, and sometimes overwhelming. This wellresearched book demystifies the practice of lean risk management. The clear approach allows you to gain an understanding of how simple risk management techniques will move you and your team from reactive to proactive, worried to confident, and make your strategic plan achievable. You and your team can use the provided templates and idea cues to identify the threats and opportunities your nonprofit faces in every functional area of your nonprofit. Ted Bilich makes a compelling case that managing risks acts as an accelerant to achieving your strategic plan.

Linda Lenrow Lopez, Enterprise Risk Management Principal, Wikimedia Foundation

Ted hits the mark of 21st century duty of care thinking for nonprofit leaders! This dynamic, holistic approach for nonprofits embracing risk through a careful process, a path, a journey with calculating milestones is practical, engaging and sustainable.

Peter A. Persuitti, Global Managing Director, Nonprofit, AIG Insurance

Ted Bilich has written the ultimate guide for nonprofits to build their resilience and bounce back from difficult situations and embrace new opportunities, something the nonprofit sector desperately needs at this moment. A mustread for every nonprofit leader.

Beth Kanter, Author, Facilitator, and Trainer

Ted's book is a mustread for any nonprofit executive or board member, whether veteran or newbie. In uncommonly plain English, Ted dismantles key risk management concepts and makes them accessible and practicable. This primer provides inspiration to those caught in analysis paralysis or who've considered enterprisewide risk management too daunting a prospect for resourcechallenged persons or organizations. Commercial insurers will love applicants that embrace Ted's methods.

Scott R. Konrad, North American Nonprofit Practice Leader, HUB International Limited

Great pragmatic resource for nonprofit professionals, board members, donors, and volunteers. Applicable to organizations at any stage of their evolution, from newly formed to well established. We all deserve to be able to identify and know how to effectively address our heffenwoofers.

Dr. Jan Young, Executive Director, Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc.

Tackling risk management is critical to the success of nonprofits. Ted's book provides a road map for this effort, and more importantly provides readers with confidence that they will succeed at anticipating, mitigating, and managing risk.

Jenny Palazio, Senior Director of a Global Nonprofit

In today's changing world, running a nonprofit is harder than ever. For a strategy to be effective, it needs to be adaptive, which means leaders need to identify, assess, and respond to risks. Ted offers a useful, accessible framework for doing so allowing any size nonprofit to build resilience and thrive.

Steve Zimmerman, Principal, Spectrum Nonprofit Services

The pressure for nonprofits to be resilient is perhaps greater now than ever. How fortunate for the nonprofit sector to have this book, a gift to nonprofit leaders and future leaders alike brimming with practical advice and helpful tools.

Amy Coates Madsen, Vice President of Programs, Maryland Nonprofits, and Director of the Standards for Excellence Institute

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data:

Names: Bilich, Ted, author.

Title: Managing your nonprofit for resilience : use lean risk management to improve performance and increase employee engagement / Ted Bilich.

Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022032945 (print) | LCCN 2022032946 (ebook) | ISBN 9781394153824 (cloth) | ISBN 9781394153848 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781394153831 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Nonprofit organizationsManagement. | Risk management.

Classification: LCC HD62.6 .B566 2023 (print) | LCC HD62.6 (ebook) | DDC 658/.048dc23/eng/20220826

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022032945

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