Elena Yearly

Beyond the Checklist: Closing Nonprofit Finance’s Risk Blind Spots

Most nonprofit finance teams have a risk management checklist, and most checklists miss the risks that cause damage. This session moves past standard controls and audits to look at the blind spots that trip up even well-run organizations: overreliance on a single funding source, informal approval workarounds that outlive their original justification, and risk owned by no one because it sits between departments. Drawing on real nonprofit finance scenarios, we’ll build a practical framework for spotting these gaps before they become headlines, and for making risk conversations a normal part of the finance function rather than a once-a-year fire drill.

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Everyone’s a Risk Champion: How to Build Risk into Every Role at Your Nonprofit

In the nonprofit world, mission and strategy matter, and so does the ability to navigate uncertainty and unforeseen vulnerabilities. Join this roundtable to discuss how to inspire risk awareness and risk roles across a diverse nonprofit team. Join colleagues to explore how to leverage what every team member brings to the table and provide them with the opportunity to see themselves as collective stewards of risk management.

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Everyone’s a Risk Champion: How to Build Risk into Every Role in Your Nonprofit

In the nonprofit world, mission and strategy matter, and so does the ability to navigate uncertainty and unforeseen vulnerabilities. In this session, we invite you, as nonprofit risk leaders, to reimagine risk as a shared ownership for growth, learning, and impact. When risk awareness is embedded across a nonprofit organization, from frontline staff to board […]

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