Money & Mission Managing Financial Risk in Your Nonprofit Presented in collaboration with the: * Nonprofit Risk Management Center * Public Entity Risk Instutute(PERI)

Audits: “Everything” You'll Ever Need to Know About Audits

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Black Canyon Conference Center
9440 N 25th Ave
Phoenix,  AZ 85021
8 am to 4 pm

Veteran nonprofit managers often say that it's only a matter of time before a nonprofit faces a theft, abrupt loss of funding, costly workers' compensation claim or other threat to its well-being and resources. Financial risk management addresses the loss waiting to happen by:

• Providing a game plan for avoiding mistakes Sand security gaps that can lead to an organizational crisis.
• Integrating practical measures that lift up and protect a nonprofit's charitable, community-serving mission.

Risk management should never be about cancelling programs and services out of fear. A reasoned approach to risk enables a nonprofit to take appropriate, mission-focused risks. Click here for detailed program information.

Participate in this training and learn:

• How a practical approach to financial risk management can help your nonprofit avoid downside risks such as theft or violation of likely new regulatory requirements based on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
• What role your professional staff and board should play in protecting the financial assets of your nonprofit.
• What services and help you can and should expect from outside advisors with respect to managing financial risk.

When colleagues are complaining bitterly about the financial scandals facing other nonprofits, the complexity of grant-making to faith-based nonprofits and the rising cost of insurance, find out what you can do to fortify your nonprofit for a healthy future.

• executive directors
• chief operating officers
• chief financial officers
• fiscal managers from faith-based and secular nonprofits
• professional risk managers
• program managers
• directors of human resources
• members of the board of directors
• professional advisors to nonprofits

If you are responsible for finance or risk management or have volunteered as your nonprofit's treasurer or risk management champion, don't wait to reserve a place at this upcoming seminar.

Exhibitors

The seminar resources will include exhibits of organizations providing services to help nonprofit organizations with financial risk management. For information about being an exhibitor, contact Michelle Lyons-Mayer @ 480.965.5548 or michelle.lyons-mayer@asu.edu

What's Included in the Seminar Fee?

In addition to thoughtful presentations by our faculty, participants in the seminar will receive:

• fortifying refreshment breaks and lunch,
• a resource guide containing background materials on all of the subjects covered during the day,
• a free copy of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center's best-selling book, Coverage, Claims & Consequences: An Insurance Handbook for Nonprofits, and
• a certificate indicating successful completion of the seminar.

Registration Fees

• $95 for the first registration and $75 for each additional registration.