How we help you
Your team needs to navigate complex rules and compliance requirements for federal regulations like Community Services Block Grants (CSBG) and Uniform Guidance. We help you do that with confidence.
Learn to maintain compliance with CSBG rules
Understand and apply the Uniform Guidance
Limit your risk of losing funding due to compliance mistakes
Create custom training sessions to meet your specific needs
Nonprofit training focused on impact and outcomes
Wipfli’s nonprofit trainers share their wealth of industry experience in how to navigate CSBG, Uniform Guidance and other essential regulations with your team. We don’t just know the rules, but how to make them fit with your everyday realities.
Community Action programs
The set of standards required to get federal funding are constantly changing. For more than 50 years, our team has helped programs like yours stay in compliance and be transparent.
Our focus is nonprofits, giving us an in-depth understanding of the challenges your organization faces and the best practices you can use to overcome them. We offer training for Community Services Block Grants (CSBG), strategic planning, board governance, organizational standards, Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200) or topics customized to your organization’s needs.
Our training provides a power-packed overview of CSBG standards, including how to use the framework to establish, measure and communicate outcomes that matter to your community.
We provide regulations training that includes real-world examples, stories and best practices. The topics we address include:
- Community engagement
- Finance
- Governance
- Human resources
- Outcomes
For more than 25 years, our team has packed more than 40 sessions in three days at our premier training event, our national Stronger to Serve conference. Come join us as we:
- Address the new landscape of challenges and outcomes required by your community, funding sources and donors.
- Share stories and solutions with a community of others navigating similar issues.
- Provide you with our largest-ever offering of CPE education.
Our board governance series is broken into easy-to-view sessions each lasting 30-45 minutes — the perfect length to provide training during a regularly scheduled board meeting but still have time to get other important organization business accomplished.
Your annual training subscription includes the following sessions:
- Two-part board governance overview
- Head Start/Early Head Start topics
- Risk management
- Advice for choosing an auditor
- Audit committee roles and responsibilities
- Reviewing financial statements
- Reviewing the Form 990
Our Uniform Guidance training team can help you meet federal grant regulations relating to financial management and administration.
Our team has the experience to keep you compliant and the curiosity to help you meet changing regulations. Our Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200 Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards) doesn’t just recite the regulations.
Our training blends deep explanations, technical assistance, best practices and action planning. Popular topics include:
- Administrative guidelines
- Allowable and unallowable costs
- Audit requirements
- Cost allocation (direct, approved indirect cost rates and de minimis rates)
- Procurement
- Selected items of cost
Our team can craft unique nonprofit training experiences for your team.
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