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OPENING SESSION | Featured speaker LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter
DAY 1 CONCURRENT SESSION | Journey Toward Justice: Transforming Education Institutions
Lunch & Keynote Address with Liz Dozier, Chicago Beyond
DAY 1 CONCURRENT SESSION | Shifting Power: Understanding Advocacy as an Equity Strategy
Afternoon Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
Opening Session | Radical Imagination: Seizing the Moment to Create a Movement
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 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS
KEYNOTE | Grassroots: Moving Together With Purpose - Jennifer Ching, North Star Fund
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Participatory Grantmaking: Lessons from an Immigrant Community Fund
How do you identify and create next steps for your organization when it comes to participatory grantmaking? Using PA is Ready! as our lens, along with an evaluation of a participatory approach that spanned three years, we will explore how we, as philanthropy organizations, can increase collaboration, participation, flexibility and responsiveness.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Reimagining Community Safety
Communities across Philadelphia are reimagining what systems of safety and justice looks like. In this session you will hear from community safety practitioners in an engaging dialogue on defining true public safety, facilitating resident-based initiatives, and resetting around relationships with law enforcement. The panel will explore these questions in the context of The Village of Arts & Humanities’ safety and social justice work in North Philadelphia – a neighborhood with one of the highest incarceration and poverty rates in the city.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Investing in Returns
Morning Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Local Activism and the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Media Reparations: Transforming the Landscape
Join us to learn more about Media 2070. Media 2070, a national initiative that is making the case and building a movement -- for media reparations.
Day 1 Keynote - M. Roger Holland, The Spirtuals Project - Lessons from History: Folk Wisdom of the Negro Spirituals
Many scholars have been clear that to understand the music of African Americans one must do so in tandem with the community that created this music and within its historic context, as well. It has also been argued that African American history is American history. This presentation will examine the music of the Negro Spirituals, the wisdom contained therein, as well as the historic context of slavery that birthed this music.
Featured Speaker: Michael O'Bryan, Humanature
COVID-19, civic unrest, and issues of equity and justice have converged and taken center stage over the last two years. These forces will be shaping our world and economy for years to come. In this conversation, Michael will explore frameworks and concepts that support the incorporation of human development, trauma theory, systems dynamics, and design methodologies into the internal and external work of organizations.
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.