Hilda Polanco

Managing Partner, BDO FMA

Hilda Polanco founded Fiscal Management Associates in 1999, which became BDO FMA in 2021. BDO FMA has one of the largest client bases of nonprofits in the country, spanning all types and sizes of organizations. Despite the depth and breadth of all that, Hilda somehow always has her fingers on the pulses of those organizations. She delivers training to the staff of nonprofits and supports grantmaker strategies to encourage financial resilience in their grantees. Hilda has been published widely on various topics in nonprofit fiscal management and leads FMA’s nationwide staff in partnerships that build a community around fiscal management best practices.

Ruth McCambridge 

Director of Content, Nonprofit Financial Commons

Ruth McCambridge is the former longtime editor-in-chief of the premier national civil society publication, Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background is in social change and community
organizing as well as nonprofit organizational development. Ruth’s work has consistently
focused on issues of racial, economic, and gender justice, most often in a variety of primarily grassroots organizations. Her work has always consciously centered on the building of
strong nonprofit organizations directly and actively guided by their constituents/members,
and it always included that intensive hands-on mix of organizing, management, fundraising,
speaking, advocacy, and publishing so familiar to nonprofit leaders.