The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center
part of the Strengthening Nonprofits Training Series
The Basics of Enterprise Risk Management
This session will focus on the basics of enterprise risk management for nonprofits. It will overview the risk landscape for nonprofits. It will detail what ERM is and the process steps to implement it.
There will be examples of nonprofits that failed to recognize their risks and how ERM might have helped them avoid the negative outcomes these risks created. Additionally, the session will showcase certain typical reporting outputs from the ERM process. Participants will be encouraged to think strategically about risk.
Learning Objectives
- To be able to articulate the definition, value, and process steps in ERM.
- To be able to create a scoring methodology for prioritizing risks
- To be able to construct a risk register
- To be able to think more broadly and more strategically about risk
This is a FREE Training
Date: April 9, 2026
Time: 10am-11am
Access: Log-in instructions will be provided upon Zoom registration
Presenter
Donna Galer
Ms. Galer is a consultant, author, and lecturer. Her top selling books include: Enterprise Risk Management – Straight To The Point and Enterprise Risk Management – Straight To The Value, and Enterprise Risk Management – Straight Talk For Nonprofits, with co-author Al Decker. She is an active contributor to the Insurance Thought Leadership website and other industry publications and has given presentations at RIMS, CPCU, PCI (now APCIA), and university events.
Currently, she is consulting on ERM and strategic planning at Re-Risk Advisors, LLC. She served as the Chairwoman of the Spencer Educational Foundation, from 2006-2010. From 1989 to 2006, she was with Zurich Insurance Group where she held many positions both in the U.S. and in Switzerland, including: EVP Corporate Development, EVP Head of Compliance and Interim Head of Investor Relations.
She has served on numerous industry and academic boards. Among these are: NC State’s Poole School of Business’ Enterprise Risk Management’s Advisory Board, Illinois State University’s Katie School of Insurance, Spencer Educational Foundation. She won “The Editor’s Choice Award” from the Society of Financial Examiners in 2017 for her co-authored articles on KRIs/KPIs and related subjects. She was named among the “Top 100 Insurance Women” by Business Insurance in 2000.
She has a BA from Wagner College and an MA from Rutgers University.
Additionally she has attended business classes at the Kellog School of Business at Northwestern University and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Date: May 7, 2026
Time: 2pm-3pm
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Presenters
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