Session Year: 2026
July 27, 2026
Emerging Risk Leaders Roundtable
Are you new to a nonprofit risk management role or looking to expand your risk leadership skills? Join this interactive roundtable designed specifically for emerging risk leaders. Facilitated by an experienced nonprofit risk professional, this session provides a welcoming environment to ask questions, share early-career observations, discuss challenges, and learn from peers navigating similar experiences. Participants will gain practical guidance, fresh perspectives, and valuable connections while exploring the opportunities and complexities of building an effective risk management program and growing as a risk leader.
July 27, 2026
Experienced Risk Leaders Roundtable
Join fellow seasoned nonprofit risk professionals for an engaging peer-to-peer roundtable discussion focused on the realities of leading risk management in today's complex environment. This interactive session is designed for experienced risk leaders to openly share challenges, successes, lessons learned, and emerging concerns with colleagues who understand the unique demands of the role. Through candid conversation and collaborative problem-solving, participants will gain fresh perspectives, practical insights, and valuable connections with peers facing similar opportunities and risks across the nonprofit sector.
July 27, 2026
Data Access and Privacy: Safeguard Your Mission
Learn how simple steps to strengthen data privacy at your nonprofit can build trust with constituents, prepare your organization for AI and digital transformation, and reduce compliance risk. You'll leave with practical steps you can take on access controls, data collection and retention, and opt-outs.
July 27, 2026
Express Yourself: Mission Stewardship Through Risk Appetite
How much risk is our nonprofit actually willing to take? This is the question that nonprofit leaders and board members ask when it’s time to develop and apply risk appetite. Living by your organization’s risk appetite is a form of high-level mission stewardship, with goals including: Aligning risk-taking and risk management with the nonprofit’s mission and strategic priorities; Distributing accountability for risk-aware decision-making, while offering decision-making guidance to staff across the organization; Empowering staff to take more risk–particularly higher-risk, mission-advancing ventures–by teaching them to interpret and apply leadership’s vision for risk appetite when making day-to-day decisions. This session explores these topics and more.
July 27, 2026
Under Pressure: How to Transform Board Risk Briefings from Data Dumps to Strategic Risk Conversations
Risk briefings to nonprofit boards are too often filled with dense operational data that leads the board to want more of the same. Yet this familiar approach is at odds with the board’s strategic role. This practical workshop is designed for risk leaders looking to break the cycle of unproductive risk reporting. Learn how to move past compliance-driven reporting and reframe risk data into topics for engaging conversations. And learn what you need to do—and stop doing—to inspire proactive, constructive board dialogue rather than passive head-nodding, and how to connect operational vulnerabilities directly to your mission resilience.
July 27, 2026
Guardrails, Not Roadblocks: Navigating the Compliance Risk Quandry
Effective compliance shouldn’t mean standing still. This session explores the delicate balance between risk management and compliance within nonprofit organizations, where regulatory obligations can sometimes overshadow a strategic or enterprise approach to risk management. Attend this workshop to learn why these two critical functions occasionally clash and how risk professionals can bridge the gap. Learn to appreciate the hidden tension between risk management and compliance, giving you a fresh blueprint to align both functions. And find out how to build dynamic guardrails that protect your organization while empowering your team to take the bold risks necessary to change the world. Leave with a fresh perspective on ways to build guardrails and dismantle the roadblocks that stifle innovation, risk taking and mission success.