Transform Your Organization’s
Risk Response
Each day, affordable housing leaders like you navigate increasingly complex challenges and emerging risks that threaten your mission. While ad-hoc responses and temporary solutions have become the norm for many organizations desperately trying to stay ahead, this reactive approach is not sustainable.
Recognizing this critical industry need, Strength Matters partnered with North Carolina State University’s prestigious Enterprise Risk Management Initiative to develop a tailored program specifically for affordable housing organizations. This collaboration brings you comprehensive risk frameworks, strategies, and tools designed specifically for the unique challenges our sector faces.
Our inaugural 2024 Strategic Risk Management training revealed something striking: despite representing organizations of different sizes, service models, and regions, participants shared remarkably similar concerns. Leaders from across the affordable housing spectrum voiced urgent worries about their ability to survive and thrive in today’s challenging landscape — concerns that likely mirror your own daily challenges.
Critical Challenges Facing Every Housing Nonprofit:
- The Talent Crisis: You’re losing valuable team members to higher-paying competitors while experienced staff retire, taking irreplaceable institutional knowledge with them. How will you maintain continuity and excellence
when your most valuable asset — your people — are walking out the door?
- The Financial Squeeze: While rising operating and insurance costs aren’t new, their unprecedented acceleration is threatening financial sustainability. How much longer can your organization absorb these increasing expenses before they compromise your mission?
- The Tax Credit Dilemma: The ability to provide affordable housing is too often dependent on a single funding mechanism. What happens to your projects — and the communities you serve — if and when tax credits become unavailable or insufficient?
From Vulnerability to Opportunity: Discover Your Organization’s Hidden Strengths
Risk isn’t just about threats — it’s also about opportunity. Learn how to identify and leverage strategic advantages others miss.
Our risk management training equips you to identify your organization’s “crown jewels” — the key drivers that unlock strategic success. Using proven tools and methodologies, you’ll learn to:
- Identify which risks could actually accelerate your organization’s growth
- Align risk management with your strategic objectives
- Transform potential threats into competitive advantages
- Protect what matters most to your organization’s mission
Don’t let another year pass while these critical challenges continue to grow. Secure your spot today for our two-part workshop series in June 2025.
“Great course. Gave us concrete templates to use to develop Enterprise Risk Management program.“ —2024 Participant
“Excellent class. Speakers are very engaging and are able to present the material in a way that feels implementable. Amazing tools to leave with. We so appreciate this.” —2024 Participant
