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SUMMARY:Practical Internal Controls for Nonprofits with Pinion: Building Practical Internal Controls for Small & Growing Nonprofits
DESCRIPTION:This event series is offered by our partner in another state. Please double-check times and time zones prior to registering.Course Description:Intended Audience: Executive Directors\, finance staff/bookkeepers\, board members and treasurers\, and leaders of all‑volunteer or small‑staff organizations.Session One | Tuesday\, October 27th\, 1:00-2:15 PM MTInternal Controls Fundamentals & Fraud Awareness: Why controls matter and where nonprofits are most vulnerableEstablish a foundation and shared understanding of internal controls and why they are critical for protecting organizations\, employees\, volunteers\, and boards   not just for audits\, but for sustainability and trust.This session will cover:What internal controls are (and what they are not)Common control breakdowns in small organizationsFraud awareness and the fraud triangle (nonprofit‑specific context)The five components of internal control\, explained in practical termsRed flags and questions leadership and boards should be askingParticipants will leave with practical tools and a high‑level framework they can use to assess risk within their own organizations.Session Two | Thursday\, October 29th\, 1:00-2:15 PM MTBuilding Practical Internal Controls for Small & Growing Nonprofits: How to design controls that work regardless of staff size This session is more applied and focuses on implementation\, showing organizations how to design reasonable\, scalable controls based on their size and capacity. It will emphasize "right‑sized" controls   what's reasonable\, what's expected\, and what actually works in practice.This session will cover:Internal controls for all‑volunteer and small organizationsCreative approaches to segregation of duties using boards\, external support\, and technologyHigh‑risk transaction areas (cash\, disbursements\, online banking\, credit cards\, journal entries)Scaling controls as organizations add staff and complexity Management and board oversight responsibilitiesOffered by our partner\, the Montana Nonprofit Association
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body aria-disabled="false" spellcheck="false"><h2><span style="font-size: 18px\;"><em><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700\;">This event series is offered by our partner in another state. Please double-check times and time zones prior to registering.</strong></em></span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: 700\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: 700\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">Course Description:</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">Intended Audience: Executive Directors\, finance staff/bookkeepers\, board members and treasurers\, and leaders of all‑volunteer or small‑staff organizations.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;">Session One</strong> | Tuesday\, October 27th\, 1:00-2:15 PM MT</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">Internal Controls Fundamentals &amp\; Fraud Awareness:&nbsp\;Why controls matter&mdash\;and where nonprofits are most vulnerable</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">Establish a foundation and shared understanding of internal controls and why they are critical for protecting organizations\, employees\, volunteers\, and boards &mdash\; not just for audits\, but for sustainability and trust.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;">This session will cover:</strong></span></p><ul fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\; list-style-position: inside\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\; list-style-position: inside\;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">What internal controls are (and what they are not)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">Common control breakdowns in small organizations</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">Fraud awareness and the fraud triangle (nonprofit‑specific context)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">The five components of internal control\, explained in practical terms</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">Red flags and questions leadership and boards should be asking</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">Participants will leave with practical tools and a high‑level framework they can use to assess risk within their own organizations.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;">Session Two&nbsp\;</strong>| Thursday\, October 29th\, 1:00-2:15 PM MT</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">Building Practical Internal Controls for Small &amp\; Growing Nonprofits: How to design controls that work&mdash\;regardless of staff size&nbsp\;</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;">This session is more applied and focuses on implementation\, showing organizations how to design reasonable\, scalable controls based on their size and capacity. It will emphasize &ldquo\;right‑sized&rdquo\; controls &mdash\; what&rsquo\;s reasonable\, what&rsquo\;s expected\, and what actually works in practice.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">This session will cover:</span></strong></span></p><ul fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; padding-left: 2rem\; margin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 1rem\; max-width: 800px\; color: rgb(2\, 55\, 71)\; font-family: SourceSans\, " style="box-sizing: border-box\; padding-left: 2rem\; margin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 1rem\; max-width: 800px\; color: rgb(2\, 55\, 71)\; font-family: SourceSans\, "><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">Internal controls for all‑volunteer and small organizations</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">Creative approaches to segregation of duties using boards\, external support\, and technology</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">High‑risk transaction areas (cash\, disbursements\, online banking\, credit cards\, journal entries)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">Scaling controls as organizations add staff and complexity</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">&nbsp\;Management and board oversight responsibilities</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box\; margin: 0px 0px 1rem\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-family: Arial\, Helvetica\, sans-serif\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; font-family: Verdana\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: 700\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: 700\;">Offered by our partner\,&nbsp\;</strong></em></span></strong><a fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; text-decoration: none\; transition-property: color\, background-color\, border-color\; transition-duration: 0.2s\; transition-timing-function: linear\; color: rgb(0\, 164\, 228)\; background-color: transparent\; user-select: auto\;" href="https://mtnonprofit.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box\; text-decoration: none\; transition-property: color\, background-color\, border-color\; transition-duration: 0.2s\; transition-timing-function: linear\; color: rgb(0\, 164\, 228)\; background-color: transparent\; user-select: auto\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: bolder\;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box\; color: rgb(67\, 69\, 73)\; font-size: 16px\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-ligatures: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: 400\; letter-spacing: 0.24px\; orphans: 2\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; widows: 2\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; white-space: normal\; text-decoration-thickness: initial\; text-decoration-style: initial\; text-decoration-color: initial\; background-color: rgb(255\, 255\, 255)\; font-family: Verdana\, Geneva\, sans-serif\;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box\;"><strong fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: 700\;" style="box-sizing: border-box\; font-weight: 700\;">the Montana Nonprofit Association</strong></em></span></strong></a></p></body></html>
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