Nonprofit Risk Mitigation from an Operational Point of View 2025-26

Overview

This course equips you with practical strategies to boost your organization’sresilience by pinpointing, assessing, and minimizing operational risks. You’ll dive into six critical risk areas - from processes and people to technology and compliance - and explore real-world case studies, proven internal controls, and tools to build a strong risk-aware culture. This session was recorded on May 29, 2025, for CalCPA’sNot-for-Profit Organizations Conference.

Highlights

• Defining and understanding operational risk types
• Assessing and prioritizing organizational risk exposure
• Mitigating process, people, and tech risks
• Strengthening compliance and facility risk controls
• Implementing effective internal control strategies
• Applying lessons from real
  • world case studies
  • Fostering a proactive, risk
  • aware culture

Prerequisites

None

Objectives

• Identify and categorize operational risks that threaten mission delivery and organizational integrity.
• Apply a structured framework (RISKED) to assess and prioritize risks within their operations.
• Implement effective mitigation strategies and internal controls to build a resilient and responsive organization.

Preparation

None