Not-for-Profit Knowledge Network: Fault Lines: When Blame Culture Cracks the Foundation (1 hour - morning) [NT] - Webcast
Overview
OSCPA Members: One hour FREE CPE offered at each knowledge network!
The OSCPA Not-for-Profit Knowledge Networks offer a great opportunity to explore important not-for-profit topics in one-hour informal discussions with experts and peers - and to obtain valuable CPE.
Developed by OSCPA Not-for-Profit Strategic Committee.
Highlights
This session explores the difference between blame and accountability — and why that distinction matters for teams, leaders, and organizational culture. Using the Ring the Bell framework, attendees will leave with a practical, three-step approach to surfacing issues early, coming with solutions, and closing the loop on what needs to change.
Designed For
The OSCPA Not-for-Profit Knowledge Network (KNET) is designed for OSCPA members working with and within the not-for-profit sector.
Objectives
To provide an overview and update of important issues impacting the not-for-profit arena.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Karinne Cyphers, Crow Consulting
Karinne Cyphers has spent over 25 years watching Fortune 500 companies pour millions into operational transformations—only to lack the culture and focus to actually execute on them. Meanwhile, mission-driven organizations were making do with small teams and depleted resources, needing sustainable systems but working within budgets that demand every investment prove its worth.
Here's what she knows: for nonprofits and small businesses, operational efficiency isn't a nice-to-have. It's survival.
For more than two decades, Karinne has worked with organizations across varied industries, including financial services firms, construction companies, SaaS platforms, and the largest globally recognized athletic brands—bringing clarity to chaos, building sustainable processes, and helping teams leverage the systems they already have. Her boots-on-the-ground experience is grounded in formal training: a Bachelor of Science in Business and Leadership, Cornell's Marketing Strategy program, and certification as an Employee Engagement Champion through Gallup. The combination enables Karinne to understand what actually works when resources are tight and every decision matters.
She understands the weight of doing more with less. Karinne knows what it means to care deeply about your work while feeling like the systems around you make it harder—not easier—to do your job well. As a single mother, she lives that reality every day. Karinne has built her business around the belief that expertise shouldn't require enterprise budgets—and that the organizations doing the most important work deserve access to strategies that actually fit their reality.
That's why she founded Crow Consulting: to bring practical, proven operational expertise to the organizations that can't afford to waste time, money, or energy on anything that doesn't move the needle.
Since 2021, Karinne has served on the board of Dress for Success Oregon, an organization that transforms lives through economic empowerment. Being part of their work reinforced what she has always believed: mission-driven organizations can unlock multigenerational impact by putting people first and building systems that support them.
(8/17/26)
Member Price $0.00