Four 1-hour sessions: Tuesday, Feb 17 – Friday, Feb 20 at 1-2pm MST*
Join McKenzie Ball of Catalyst Montana to walk through their recently released Safety and Security Toolkit. This resource provides tools, templates, leading practices, and risk assessments for nonprofit organizations to manage safety in the areas of digital, personal and physical, and event management. Whether your organization is looking for a refresher on cybersecurity basics, adapting to new challenges in an era of political divisiveness, or haven’t conducted a risk assessment for your team lately, this series is a comprehensive overview of how to minimize risk for your staff, clients, and community.
Participants will:
- Be prepared to conduct a threat assessment with their board and leadership to identify areas of concern
- Be prepared to develop a risk management plan
- Learn best practices for risk mitigation in the areas of digital, personal, physical, and event safety
- Have an opportunity to have their questions answered
- Leave with tools, templates, and SOPs to implement
Come to any or all of the sessions when you sign up:
- Tuesday, Feb 17th | Threat Assessment, Risk Management, and Security Audits
- Wednesday, Feb 18th | Digital Safety
- Thursday, Feb 19th | Personal and Physical Safety
- Friday, Feb 20th | Event Safety
*Updated from a Monday-Thursday schedule to a Tuesday-Friday schedule
We recommend downloading Catalyst’s Safety and Security Toolkit to review beforehand.
About the Presenter
McKenzie Ball is the Counter Extremism Coordinator at Catalyst Montana. He is focused on identifying, analyzing, and responding to extremist activity through community centered, prevention first strategies. His work emphasizes early threat identification, misinformation and disinformation tracking, coalition building, and practical community based harm reduction approaches that strengthen local resilience rather than relying solely on reactive enforcement models. McKenzie works closely with local governments, nonprofits, educators, faith leaders, and grassroots organizers to address extremism as a public safety, civic, and social cohesion issue. He specializes in translating complex extremist ecosystems such as online radicalization pipelines, ideological convergence, and grievance based hate into clear, actionable tools and pathways for community leaders and frontline social justice organizations.
Born and raised in Bozeman, McKenzie is a lifelong Montanan who has also had the privilege of living, working and studying across the west and Canada. McKenzie attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington for Sustainable Community Development and later graduated from Montana State University where he majored in Political Science and minored in International Relations Studies. Inspired by resistance movements and driven by a strong desire for world changing action, McKenzie has been involved in protest activism and community organizing for the last 25 years. For the past decade he has worked professionally in nonprofit organizations in numerous roles from program development to grant writing and everything in between. McKenzie came to Catalyst Montana from the Montana Human Rights Network side of the merger where he held the same position and role.
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