Online Risk Management Tools

Online Tools for Nonprofits

Several online tools have been created to help your organization equip, train, communicate, and collaborate with your staff, board, and volunteers. These tools have been developed based on over a decade’s experience working with nonprofit organizations that rely on a significant number of volunteers to accomplish their nonprofit missions.

Online Tools for Churches

David Adams in currently engaged with a group of New England congregations to write or review these churches’ policies and procedures in conjunction with an experienced accounting and human resources staff...

On-line Policies and Procedures

Have you ever asked yourself, “What is our policy on that?” And you are a leader in the organization!

Committee meetings, staff meetings, drafts, proposals and final publication. While many organizations recognize the need for policies and procedures to ensure compliance with laws and maintain minimum standards of conduct, all too often policies are forgotten, seldom reviewed by new staff, or exist only in a key employee’s or volunteer’s head.

Your organization’s policies should be well written, concise, easy to understand, and available to those who need them. Without question, policies and procedures should be created for most aspects of financial management, employment practices, and any program that would create risk of potential liability, such as services provided to children, the elderly, or handicapped.

This on-line tool provides a collaborative environment where your organization’s leaders and others can work together to draft, review, and publish legal and risk management policies that comply with federal and state laws, embody best practices for your sector, and allow your board to sleep well at night!

When a new policy is published, the appropriate staff and volunteer leader will receive email notification and access to the new policy. Staff and board members will also be able to access your policies whenever they need them.
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On-line Resources

Did you ever read something that you knew would benefit your staff or volunteers, but somehow it never made it into their hands?

Newspapers, magazines, trade journals, blogs, web-sites – nonprofit leaders are inundated with information, much of it excellent and useful. Yet even if you have the time to read through it all, the greater challenge is to figure out how to get the right information to the right people in your organization.

This on-line tool provides a mechanism to distribute resources through a secure web environment to your staff and volunteers, including forms, training manuals, PDF’s, MP3’s, video clips, and helpful web-links. This tool allows you to control access to resources so that you are able to provide the right resources to the right people. Over time, you will build up a resource library that will be available to staff and volunteers twenty-four hours a day.
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On-line Training

Have you ever been frustrated by the challenge of training your volunteers?

As never before, volunteers’ schedules are often filled to overflowing. Although good intentioned, your potential or current volunteers are often unable to attend training sessions that would allow them to be more engaged in your organization.

Organizations are now turning to the internet to offer an alternative to on-site training. The world-wide web allows the opportunity to train volunteers twenty-four hours a day from the comfort of their own computer (and home). While not all training is conducive to on-line training, much is.

This on-line tool has been designed to create simple, fifteen to twenty minute training sessions that can be completed on-line. Utilizing text, graphics, and short quizzes, these sessions communicate the vital information necessary both to equip your staff and volunteers to succeed in their roles, and to protect your organization by ensuring that important safety or legally required training takes place.

By conducting policy training on-line, your hands-on time with volunteers can then be focused on the more exciting aspects of advancing your organization’s mission.

A tracking module will also allow your board or staff to monitor training progress and completion. With effective training, your organization can not only minimize legal risks and accidents, but also strengthen staff and volunteer morale as they become more equipped and adept at their leadership roles.
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Discussion Boards

Did you ever send out a simple email inquiry to a group of people only to discover that within hours your inbox was filled with unwanted email response strings?

Email is great for some things, such as communicating information or for simple inquiries. It is not a good forum for in depth discussions.

Yet, often it is quite difficult to convene a meeting every time an issue arises that involves a group of nonprofit leaders, such as the board of directors or a committee of volunteers.

Through the use of private on-line discussion boards, nonprofit leaders can engage staff and volunteers on topics, facilitating important dialog without clogging the email in-box!

Discussion board access can be easily assigned to only those individuals you desire to participate. Invited guests will receive email notification and may join in at their convenience.
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If you would like to learn more about these tools, please contact David Adams at (978) 663-1841 or by email.