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## [Freeing Nonprofits from Their Risk-Averse Shackles](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/freeing-nonprofits-from-their-risk-averse-shackles)

 Posted by [Keith H. Liederman, Ph.D., chief executive officer, Kingsley House, Inc., New Orleans](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/keith-h-liederman-ph-d-chief-executive-officer-kingsley-house-inc-new-orleans) on Apr 12, 2016, 10:17:50 AM

Unprecedented crisis requires equally unprecedented response and risk taking. Undoubtedly, this is not an entirely foreign concept for many of us in the nonprofit sector. Most likely, we’ve heard one variation or another of this statement. And, often times, our willingness to take on risk comes in...

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