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Welcome & Opening
WELCOME: Jennifer Pedroni, Board Chair, Philanthropy Network
OPENING REMARKS: Sidney Hargro, President, Philanthropy Network
Morning Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
Workshop Track #1: Innovation
Dynamic Data: Using Data to Inform Funding & Program Decisions -- Columbus Ballroom A
Funders and nonprofits are increasingly utilizing data to help inform their decision-making and develop solutions to pressing community needs. Workshop participants will learn from data-informed organizations about how they are using data to build in-depth community profiles to guide funding and program planning.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Looking Back to Move Forward: Understanding How Use of An Evaluation of Past Practices Can Create Equity
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 2 Concurrent Session - Reimagining Community Safety
Afternoon Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
Fireside Chat with Tonya Allen, Skillman Foundation
As CEO of the Skillman Foundation, Tonya Allen's work centers on pursuing, executing and investing in ideas that improve her hometown of Detroit and increase opportunities for its people, especially children, who live in under-resourced communities.
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.
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Environmental Justice: Deadly Symptoms of Larger Problems
Environmental injustice is much more than a climate crisis, it is intertwined with many injustices and social inequities. From hazardous pollution to natural disasters, the negative impacts of environmental injustice affect people of color at much higher rates than other communities.
Minority & Immigrant Local Businesses Amidst COVID-19 - A Call to Action
Grab your favorite breakfast, have a seat at the table and break bread with us for the final morning of the conference. During this session we tie together the learning events that we have all participated in over the last three days of the conference and how these building blocks will help you create your own call to action.
Small Group Conversations
Breakout Conversations:
1. Emergent Topics
2. Engage Community Voice and Agency
Sponsored by:
DAY 1 NETWORKING SESSIONS
New Members and Attendees
Join us to connect with your peers and learn from each other.
Networking Breakfast
Plan to arrive early to take advantage of this time to network with colleagues and visit with our sponsors who provide professional services to philanthropy and nonprofits.
Morning Networking and Breakfast Sponsored by:
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 1 CONCURRENT SESSION | Journey Toward Justice: Transforming Education Institutions
This panel discussion will explore what it means to be a transformational organization, one with policies reflecting a commitment to anti-racism and attitudes that are inclusive and equitable for all members of the community. Panelists will discuss:
CLOSING SESSION | Envisioning the Future - featuring A Conversation with Vilas Dhar, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and Closing Keynote from Vanessa Daniel, Groundswell Fund
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
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.