Nonprofit organizations by their very nature are risk-taking operations. They venture to provide services to people at risk in risky places on limited budgets. To tell a nonprofit organization not to take risks is as good as telling the organization to close its doors. This book explains how to take risks in enlightened ways that enable your nonprofit to fulfill its mission to the utmost in our less-than-fully-predictable world. This book is also about risk management—a process for planning organizing directing and controlling the assets and activities of any organization to enable it to accomplish its mission. But to the traditional concept of safeguarding against the losses