How to Incorporate Risk Management into Monitoring and Evaluation

Risk management does not end with the grant check. Unlike due diligence, risk management is an ongoing process. This document provides specific guidance on how funders can address and mitigate risk through the monitoring and evaluation process and others sample language for funders to adopt or adapt.
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Risk Management: A Primer
The guide offers philanthropy practitioners a handy guide to diverse perspectives on “risk management” and highlights a range of practical tools available to funders and nonprofits.

Risk in Philanthropy: A Framework for Evaluation
This brief framework is designed to provide grantmakers and NGOs with tools to conceptualize and describe risk and its implications within the scope of their philanthropic work.

Foundations Don’t Know What They’re Risking
Critical gaps exist in philanthropy’s definitions of and approach to risk management. This article describes the scope of the problem and a framework for philanthropists to adopt risk-management practices that better equip the sector to address the challenges of our time.