Wednesday, January 27, 2010

NEW! CAA Financial Management Conference Call

Join CAPLAW for a new series of facilitated 45-minute monthly conference calls focusing on current fiscal issues faced by CAAs. In each monthly call, CAPLAW financial consultant Kay Sohl will facilitate a discussion of a preannounced topic and participants will have an opportunity to ask questions, share insights, and suggest future conference call and training topics.


CAPLAW is launching the monthly conference calls in response to the fiscal management survey CAA managers completed last fall and to the fiscal roundtable discussion at our June 2009 conference Seattle. Learn more about Survey findings and discussion themes for fiscal officers.
The calls will supplement CAPLAW’s CAA Financial Network e-Forum as a resource for CAA fiscal staff and other CAA managers to share information, provide informal peer-to-peer assistance on financial issues and benefit from financial experts’ input.

View Upcoming Conference Call Topics!

About Kay Sohl
Kay Sohl is a nonprofit financial management consultant with Kay Sohl Consulting in Portland, OR. Ms. Sohl has provided training and consultation on financial management issues for over 4,000 nonprofit organizations. She co-founded and served as Executive Director of Technical Assistance for Community Services, the Northwest’s largest resource for nonprofit capacity building assistance. Ms. Sohl is co-author of the Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook, adjunct faculty for the Institute of Nonprofit Management at Portland State University, and a frequent presenter for the American Institute of CPAs not-for-profit annual conferences in Washington D.C.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

2010 National Training Conference Speakers and Topics

A current list of CAPLAW National Training Conference Speakers and Topics is now available on the CAPLAW website.  Check back often for additions and updates!

Topics Include:
  • Risk Management
  • Auditing Update
  • Negotiation
  • Entrepreneurial Ventures
  • Human Resources
  • Fiscal Sponsorship
  • ARRA
  • Contracts 101
  • Head Start Update
  • Governance Case Studies
  • IT & Social Networking
  • National Partner Resources
  • Internal Controls
  • Bylaws
  • Managing Multiple Funding Streams
  • OMB Circular A-122
  • 501(c)(3) Update
  • Grant Reporting after ARRA
  • Employment Law Update
  • Wage & Hour Law
  • Davis-Bacon Act Compliance
  • Public CAAs
Keynote Speaker:


Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative has won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color in the criminal justice system. Since graduating from Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, he has assisted in securing relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, advocated for poor people and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice. He also is on the law faculty at New York University School of Law.   View the current list of Conference Speakers!


*Conference topics and speakers are subject to change