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DAY 1 CONCURRENT SESSION | Shifting Power: Understanding Advocacy as an Equity Strategy
DAY 3 CONCURRENT SESSION | Resilient Futures: Building Power for Black Communities
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.
Morning Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
KEYNOTE | Grassroots: Moving Together With Purpose - Jennifer Ching, North Star Fund
Grassroots: Moving Together With Purpose
Why are grassroots movements so effective and how can your organization learn and support them? Jennifer Ching, the Executive Director of North Star Fund, will share her organization’s experience in creating people-powered philanthropy that mobilizes resources towards social justice movements.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Coaching for Our Communities
“Leaders are made, not born.” – Vince Lombardi
Given the challenges facing the world and the people leading change, nurturing thoughtful, secure, open-minded leaders is imperative for equitable outcomes for our organizations and communities. But how do we develop the leadership of people within our communities, especially those that are marginalized and under-resourced?
Lunch & Keynote Address with Liz Dozier, Chicago Beyond
DAY 1 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Label, but not disable
Led by Yvonne Hughes, Deputy Administrator at Its Not Your Fault and LeBrian Brown, Manager, Network Organizing, Knowledge & Engagement at Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
DAY 3 CONCURRENT SESSION | Disruption: How organizing is moving philanthropy’s goals
DAY 2 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Film and Media As Organizing Tools
Led by Louis Massiah, filmmaker and founder of Scribe Video Center and Sarah Lutman, Founder and Principal at 8 Bridges Workshop
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Tackling Systemic Racism Through Your Endowment
Featured Speaker: Michael O'Bryan, Humanature
OPENING SESSION | Featured speaker LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Equitable Grantmaking Is A Thing? How Using Demographic Data Can Help
CLOSING SESSION | Envisioning the Future - featuring A Conversation with Vilas Dhar, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and Closing Keynote from Vanessa Daniel, Groundswell Fund
We’ll bring our event to a close with remarks from two dynamic leaders about what lies ahead, the urgency of this moment, and what action it will take from each of us to create the future we want.
A Conversation with Vilas Dhar
The past year accelerated the role of technology in all of our lives and that includes philanthropy. Artificial intelligence (AI) and data solutions can help to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all and level the playing field.
Afternoon Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
Workshop Track #1: Innovation
Impact Matters: Communicating Funding & Program Impact to Your “Community” -- Columbus Ballroom A
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Using Data to Guide Nonprofits through an Uncertain Future…
Representatives from the Nonprofit Repositioning Fund and BCT Partners will share the results of a newly released study: The Financial Health of Greater Philadelphia Nonprofits.
DAY 1 CONCURRENT SESSION | Solidarity Not Charity: Arts & Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy
This session, inspired by the report of the same name commissioned by Grantmakers in the Arts, is for anyone interested in learning more about the solidarity economy. Using the report as a foundation, we’ll first learn how the cultural sector is actively seeking alternatives to business-as-usual to create economic and racial justice in the sector, and how grantmakers can engage in systems-change by supporting this work.
DAY 3 CONCURRENT SESSION | The Missing Link: How to Use Your Endowment to Advance Economic & Social Justice
Foundations distribute grants as a tool for social change, but have you thought about your endowments? Foundations have over $1 trillion in assets under management in the U.S., and this trillion can be used as a powerful tool to advance social and economic justice for workers in Philadelphia and nationally. This includes worker justice campaigns to pay livable wages, improve worker safety, and provide sufficient benefits.