Wildfire Risk to Communities

This book explains and defines risk management for nonprofits. It provides comprehensive guidance on such topics as identifying risk, prioritising risk, selecting appropriate risk management techniques, implementing risk management techniques, monitoring risk management, and financing.

An eight-page introduction to principles, tools, frameworks and strategies for risk management

This book provides an introduction to risk management in order to equip your land trust with information, resources and suggested strategies for designing and implementing a practical risk management program.

Neighborhoods at Risk is an easy-to-use website with interactive maps, charts and resources to help communities identify neighborhoods that may be more impacted by climate change. It shows where people may experience unequal impacts from flooding and extreme heat.

If you hate risk management, it's probably because you're practicing risk avoidance. Read how you can transform your risk management efforts into risk-aware, mission-advancing management. We're sharing tips on how to apply risk awareness to public events and programs.

Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook offers place-based organizations a guide to applying risk-based methodology to identify climate change vulnerability and plan to address likely threats to reduce risks. This guidance focuses specifically on water resource stressors, and offers a straightforward approach to risk identification and risk abatement planning.

This document lays out common areas of risk land trusts face and the likelihood that they will occur.

This contains useful general risk mitigation guidance for nonprofits.

Creating a risk management plan

The Land Trust Alliance and Gathering Waters: Wisconsin’s Alliance for Land are collaborating to help you identify and assess risks using current risk management strategies that will help you ensure the permanence of your land trust and its conserved lands.