Safeguard donor trust and protect your mission by mastering essential fraud prevention, detection, and governance strategies for nonprofit organizations of every size.
Fraud in nonprofits rarely appears as a sudden crisis — it often develops quietly through limited resources, strong trust cultures, and fragmented oversight. This session explores how fraud risks emerge in lean nonprofit environments and what boards and audit committees can realistically do to detect, prevent, and respond more effectively.
Drawing on over 30 years of public sector and nonprofit governance experience, including audit committee leadership at USA Badminton, Philip Varghese, CPA, CFE, CGFO, delivers practical, field-tested insights into real oversight challenges faced by volunteer boards and finance teams. Using recent high-profile cases such as the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme and the Minnesota autism Medicaid fraud scheme, the webinar highlights how governance gaps and weak controls enable fraud — and what practical steps can strengthen accountability in resource-constrained organizations.
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Owner and CEO | Philip Varghese Consulting PLLC
Philip Varghese is a Texas-based financial consultant and accounting professional with more than 30 years of experience in local government finance, auditing, and compliance. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and Certified Government Finance Officer (CGFO), Philip has served in senior finance and audit roles across U.S. cities and county government, including Dallas County, where he developed hands-on expertise in procurement oversight, grant compliance, internal control design, and fraud risk management in complex, decentralized political environments. Philip is the principal of his own financial consulting practice and recently completed his service on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Financial Audit Committee of USA Badminton, the national governing body for the sport in the United States. In that role, he navigated the governance and oversight challenges unique to lean nonprofits — including volunteer board dynamics, conflicts of interest, and financial reporting integrity. He is a long-standing member of the AICPA, the AICPA Not-For-Profit section, ACFE, GFOAT, and other professional associations, and draws on a deep library of CPE resources to deliver practical, field-tested insights to finance leaders and fraud prevention professionals worldwide.
