2025 Risk Summit Agenda
7:30 am
Breakfast, Registration, and Networking with Conference Sponsors
Visit with our sponsors, staff, and other attendees while you enjoy a bountiful breakfast buffet!
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9:45 am
De-Escalation Techniques: Reducing the Load
Violence has increased in America, and tempers may flare even in routine interactions. Learn how frontline staff and managers can bring down the heat in difficult conversations and be prepared if an interaction does escalate. This train-the-trainers session will equip you to reduce the stress on your team by practicing de-escalation techniques with them.
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Impact Protection: Navigating Nonprofit Insurance Challenges
In today’s insurance marketplace, some nonprofits struggle to find coverage for all their activities, while others experience challenges with certain coverage lines. Join this panel discussion to hear from experts on how the insurance market is evolving, how to navigate common issues, and how to maximize your relationship with your insurance agent or broker and […]
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11:15 am
Privacy Considerations in Fraud Risk Management
Data privacy is a significant risk in its own right. But fraud risk management and privacy have an unusual relationship. Many of the techniques used to manage fraud risk and investigate fraud come with considerable privacy considerations, both legal and ethical. In this session, we’ll utilize several scenarios as a basis for discussing privacy issues […]
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Navigating the Risky Waters: Is Your Strategic Plan Ready to Set Sail?
The development of a strategic plan is an exhilarating journey where nonprofit leaders balance stakeholder expectations with their visionary goals. As priorities evolve, it’s crucial to ensure that inherent risks of your updated plan are assessed before presenting the updated plan to the board.
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Inclusive Hiring for a High-Performing Culture
During a period of unprecedented disruption, having a high-performing team supported by an inclusive workplace culture is fundamental to mission success. Attend this workshop to learn practical, research-backed steps to build a more inclusive and rigorous hiring process. Learn how to expand your talent pool, improve decision-making, and fortify a high-performing culture. The session speakers will explain […]
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12:30 pm
1:45 pm
Reputation Risk
This session is designed to help you help your organization take a fresh look at the bridge that connects you to every touchpoint your nonprofit has: your reputation. A nonprofit’s reputation is simultaneously its most valuable, and most vulnerable, asset. Learn strategies to help you build a strong yet flexible understanding of how to manage […]
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Nonprofits Under Fire: Everything You Need to Know to Mitigate Risk from Current Legislative, Regulatory, and Legal Threats
In a year of unprecedented policy and regulatory change affecting nonprofits across the country and around the globe, keeping up with what is happening at both the federal and state levels is a must. Attend this conference workshop to glean invaluable insights on potential adverse impacts to defensive and proactive strategies in areas ranging from […]
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3:00 pm
From Assessment to Action: Leveraging Risk Management Tools for Organizational Transformation
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When Structures Collapse: Three Cybersecurity Scenarios
In this dynamic session, participants will work hands-on in groups to address cybersecurity scenarios any nonprofit might face. With expert guidance and practical learning, you’ll come away with tactics you can use to buttress potential failure points for nonprofit cybersecurity programs.
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Unleashing the Power of a Risk-Savvy Culture
Although culture is vital to effective risk management in a nonprofit, it remains hard to define and equally challenging to measure. This workshop explores the critical role of risk culture in supporting risk management aspirations, activities, and impact. Learn how colleagues from nonprofits with mature risk programs have found ways to bolster and grow risk […]
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5:30 pm
7:30 am
Breakfast, Registration, and Networking with Conference Sponsors
Visit with our sponsors, staff, and other attendees while you enjoy a bountiful breakfast buffet!
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Kindred Spirit Roundtables
Join group discussions with other nonprofit risk leaders. These facilitated roundtables are role-based networking groups. CEOs / COOs / CAOs CFOs, Directors of Finance and Other Finance Leaders In-house Counsel / General Counsel Risk Managers + Directors of ERM Compliance Professionals
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Risk Communication
How risk is communicated is a foundational element in building the bridge that allows a nonprofit’s internal and external constituents to understand risk management. This session provides insights into identifying and understanding different audiences, creating platform specific messaging, and evaluating the effectiveness of your communications.
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Stable Yet Flexible: Build the Artificial Intelligence Policy Your Nonprofit Needs
Artificial intelligence can help your team members spend more time on high-impact work. But AI also presents safety, security, and ethical risks to nonprofit teams and constituents. Learn to build a flexible AI policy to undergird your team’s decisions on AI use as your needs and the technology evolve.
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What Do ERM and Futurists Have in Common?
Across the diverse nonprofit sector, not taking a risk is a risk in and of itself in a rapidly evolving world. This session explores the intersection of ERM and futurecasting. Learn how futurecasting has strengthened one of the largest membership associations in the world accurately assess the external environment and balance risk and reward. Explore […]
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10:45 am
The Long Span Approach: ERM Master Class
When you need to cross a wide river or valley, you need a long-span bridge. Enterprise risk management is the risk version of a long span. ERM involves—to some degree—everyone in your organization in building a risk management program that can go the distance. Learn how to bring a diverse group of players together to […]
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The Crossing: How to Navigate a Difficult Insurance Market and Secure the Risk Financing Your Mission Requires
This session explores strategies for navigating from an unprecedented ‘soft market’ to today’s hardening insurance marketplace. As many Risk Summit attendees are well aware, property and casualty coverage renewal periods are testing the patience and stressing the budgets of nonprofits across the country. Attend this session to learn from an experienced insurance broker whose portfolio […]
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12:00 pm
Lunch on Your Own in Reston
NRMC will not be hosting a conference luncheon on Day 2. We welcome you to enjoy one of the many restaurants within walking distance of the Hyatt Regency Reston. If you need a recommendation, the NRMC team has prepared some a list of our favorite places; click here to view our recommendations!
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Risk, Compliance, Ethics and Internal Audit: Disparate Functions or Members of the Same Team?
Leaders from growing, complex nonprofits often encounter a similar ponderous question: how to stand up risk, compliance, ethics, and sometimes IA without breaking the bank or creating warring fiefdoms. This workshop explores potential synchronicities and tensions between the goals and activities of these functions. Attend this session to learn how and when it makes sense […]
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Risk Help Live: Shore Up Your Risk Management Supports
One of NRMC’s most popular member benefits is “Risk Help,” where members can call or email NRMC for advice on a pressing risk issue. This year, only at Risk Summit, Risk Help is open to all! Explain your thorniest risk issue to a member of our team in three minutes. We’ll take the next three […]
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2:45 pm
Board Engagement and Transformation: Managing Risk and Maximizing Impact
Nonprofit boards have significant legal, moral, and oversight responsibility to the missions they serve. Yet many board members come equipped with passion and enthusiasm, but without a clear understanding of how to navigate their role as members of a governing team. In some cases, board members heighten, instead of alleviate the risks a nonprofit faces. […]
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