Focusing on safety will help your not-for-profit protect (both its staff and the people it serves), comply with its legal obligations, and attract and retain funding, volunteers, staff and members. Here are five things you should know about safety, risk and insurance in your not-for-profit.

Risk management is a core responsibility of directors and management committees. Failing in this not only has impacts on the organisation, but potentially personal liability for those involved.

Organisations are complex enterprises, and how they are run is equally so. It can help to think of governance as a bundle of components, including the organisation’s leadership, decision making and responsibility frameworks, risk identification and management, and relationships both within the organisation and between the organisation and its stakeholders.

Organisations are complex enterprises, and how they are run is equally so. It can help to think of governance as a bundle of components, including the organisation’s leadership, decision making and responsibility frameworks, risk identification and management, and relationships both within the organisation and between the organisation and its stakeholders.