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Morning Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Equipping and Empowering Leaders of Color in Accessing Philanthropic Dollars
Accessing foundation money has historically experienced a color barrier. Come and join us to learn about the challenges facing our leaders of color when trying to access philanthropic funds and to identify the potential barriers that may affect the future of fundraising and how to overcome them.
Small Group Conversations
Breakout Conversations:
1. Emergent Topics
2. Engage Community Voice and Agency
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DAY 1 NETWORKING SESSIONS
New Members and Attendees
Join us to connect with your peers and learn from each other.
Opening Session | Radical Imagination: Seizing the Moment to Create a Movement
Over the next four days, you will join your community to begin the process of re-envisioning our collective future and exploring bold new ways we can work together to build a more just and equitable Greater Philadelphia. Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia President Sidney Hargro, Philanthropy Network Chair Ashley Del Bianco, and your SPARX Facilitators, Eric M Bailey and Yvonne Moore will share with you where Philanthropy Network is currently and where it is moving to and more importantly, how you are key to creating a movement.
DAY 2 NETWORKING SESSIONS
Favorite Philly Park
Join us to talk about your favorite Philly park to relax and play.
Staying Healthy- Exercise Tips and Tricks
Join your peers in small breakouts, where you can talk and share about your experiences trying to stay healthy during quarantine.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Philanthropic-Private Partnerships: New Models for Delivering Impact through Technology
The COVID-19 Pandemic has created new challenges for our sector, but it has also brought perennial problems to the forefront. Two areas loom large: How do we help nonprofits build capacity around digital engagement, particularly at a time when in-person activity is limited, so they can build relationships with current and potential supporters? How can nonprofits and foundations assess the impact of their efforts beyond their own organizations and build momentum toward moving the needle on recalcitrant problems on a citywide, regional, or state level? How can philanthropic dollars be coo
Advancing equity inside and out | Presented by Public Equity Group
As organizations advance racial equity and related work, they often seek tools to help determine where to begin and how to proceed. Public Equity Group developed a framework to help organizations take stock of where they are and then take action. This session will introduce the Equity Continuum framework, which has been tested, refined and implemented with dozens of organizations.
Lunch & Keynote Address with Liz Dozier, Chicago Beyond
In 2016, Liz Dozier launched Chicago Beyond, an impact investor that backs the fight for youth equity by fueling ideas, organizations, and people.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Equitable Grantmaking Is A Thing? How Using Demographic Data Can Help
As the sector grapples with improving its record on inclusion and racial equity, the question of what exactly the record shows about philanthropy’s reach into specific communities emerges. After all, how can we work toward a more equitable sector if we don’t have a starting point of data to use as a benchmark to track progress and inform our impact? Join this learning session to hear about field-wide collaborative efforts to strengthen the systems for collecting demographic data effectively at both the organizational and program level to advance equity in grantmaking.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Looking Back to Move Forward: Understanding How Use of An Evaluation of Past Practices Can Create Equity
WOMEN'S WAY and Strategy Arts collaborated to create the racial Equity Audit tool to evaluate whether current practices perpetuate inequities and to spur intentional action to incorporate racial equity in policies and practices. The process also supported planning of implementing actions and strategies over short-term and long-term periods that center racial equity, lived experience expertise, and reprioritize cultural norms that stem from white supremacist notions and culture.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Relationship Building and Its Impact on Philanthropy
Are you using principles of Trust Based Philanthropy and don’t even know it? When philanthropist Carole Haas Gravagno and Stanford Thompson teamed up a decade ago to plan and launch the music education program Play On Philly, the journey and relationship impacted their own lives as much as those of the students.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Bridging Information Divides and Elevating Narratives: How Resolve Philly Does Community Engagement
Resolve Philly exists to challenge the field of journalism to be equitable, collaborative, and informed by community voices and solutions. As one of the driving forces behind Resolve Philly, our Community Engagement (CE) team directly engages with and broadens the visibility of communities who are not afforded the tools and mechanisms to elevate their own narratives.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Blueprint for a Better Safety Net: Participatory Grantmaking in Action
Join us as we discuss a participatory planning effort to redesign the social safety net in order to better weather the COVID-19 pandemic and address deeply rooted racial and social inequities. In this session, HealthSpark Foundation staff, a nonprofit participant, and a community partner will discuss their experiences in this community-driven process, share lessons learned from building collective vision during this momentous time in history, and outline key actions their organization will be taking as a result of this work.
Day 1 Concurrent Session - The Whole Entrepreneur: Designing a Just and Equitable Business Ecosystem for Black and People of Color Businesses
While Black and Latinx residents make up 42% and 15% of the population respectively, they only own 8% and 3% of small businesses in the city. Annually, business owners of color in Philadelphia earn only 13% of revenue compared to their white counterparts. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a renewed pursuit for social justice, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, the City of Philadelphia, and PIDC have embarked on an endeavor to understand and address the unique needs of small businesses owned by Black and people of color, women, and immigrants in Philadelphia.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Tackling Systemic Racism Through Your Endowment
How can investors use their capital to tackle systemic racism and advance the well-being for communities of color? This session explores how investors/ foundations can use their capital to address systemic racism and better support communities of color. The financial industry has a responsibility to better understand how it distributes wealth, resources and power in our economy.
DAY 2 CONCURRENT SESSION | Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D: Values, Cultures, Leadership, Practice
The potential of trust-based philanthropy goes beyond unrestricted grants and streamlined paperwork. Trust-based philanthropy can show us the way toward co-creating a sector in which community and nonprofit leaders are valued, supported, and trusted. For this vision to become the norm in philanthropy, funders must center trust in every dimension of our work, both internally and externally. This begins with acknowledging and addressing issues of power and equity in all aspects of our organizations.
DAY 1 CONCURRENT SESSION | Persevering Through Crisis: The State of Nonprofits
Last June, CEP published research about how nonprofits were faring at the beginning of the pandemic. This February, we conducted a follow-up survey and drew three key findings:
Drexel University’s Action for Early Learning: Creating Circles of Support for Children and Families in Philadelphia | Presented by William Penn Foundation
Since 2014, the Action for Early Learning (AFEL) Initiative has worked to provide more equitable access to quality early childhood education in the high-need, high-poverty neighborhood of the West Philadelphia Promise Zone. As Drexel University’s early learning improvement initiative, AFEL has created a place-based model that puts the child at the center of an early childhood education eco-system, which now has 35% more children in high quality care since its inception.