Clay County Series: Volunteer Risks and What You Must Do About Them

While for-profit organizations would never rely on volunteers to perform essential business services, nonprofits accept these risks every day. That choice creates numerous training, supervision, and motivational challenges. In this workshop, participants collaboratively identify the threats and leave with an arsenal of actionable ideas to protect and enhance their nonprofits’ volunteer operations and maximize volunteer efforts.

Join Ted Bilich and Linda Lenrow Lopez of Risk Alternatives for a high-energy session that provides seasoned nonprofit leaders, board members, and staff with a solid understanding of what they can do – immediately – to be more resilient and sustainable in the face of uncertainty.

This program is part of the Capacity Building for Clay County Nonprofits Series. We thank the Paul E. and Klare N. Reinhold Foundation for their generous support of this series!

The Nonprofit Center believes that Organizational Learning and Measurement is one of the four key elements of an effective, sustainable and adaptable organization. To learn more about The Nonprofit Center’s Stronger Nonprofits Framework, click here. 

About the Presenters:

Ted Bilich is the Chief Executive Officer of Risk Alternatives, where he provides nonprofit training and organizational and professional development engagements to nonprofit organizations across the United States, highlighting nonprofit challenges in evaluating risk and providing unique nonprofit resources.

Ted has written widely about risk management and continuous process improvement. He has published articles in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, and Risk Management Magazine, as well as scores of blog posts and podcasts. (It’s not for nothing that Ted has been called the “Reverend of Risk.”)

Ted has lectured, presented, and consulted throughout the United States and overseas on risk management, process improvement, identifying risks and risk assessment, board governance, civic engagement, ethics, and numerous other issues. He is the author of three editions of a leading law school casebook on class actions and other multi-party litigation. He received his B.A. in economics, summa cum laude, from Wake Forest University, and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Linda Lenrow Lopez is the Director of Operations for Risk Alternatives. She has more than 25 years of cutting-edge private sector and nonprofit risk management and project management expertise.

Linda has worked extensively in both US and international project contexts. Before joining Risk Alternatives, she served in numerous risk- and project-management positions at Bechtel Corporation, including Corporate Risk Manager for a global business unit, project manager with the cyber security group in corporate IS&T, and project manager for a $15 billion proposed nuclear facility and Phase One of the $2.5 billion Dulles Metrorail extension in Northern Virginia.

Linda is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, bringing extensive knowledge of risk management and Lean Six Sigma to our customers’ projects. She is also a Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant with the knowledge, tools, and skills necessary to work with nonprofit organizations across the country interested in learning about and implementing the Standards for Excellence code. She speaks regularly on topics of risk analysis, potential risks, and contingency planning. Linda received her BA with dual majors in International Relations and Politics, and a minor in Spanish from Lake Forest College.