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Morning Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions
DAY 1 CONCURRENT SESSION | Solidarity Not Charity: Arts & Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Coaching for Our Communities
DAY 2 CONCURRENT SESSION | Power-building, Trust, and Co-creation: the Role of a Community Action Team in Equitable Grantmaking
This session will focus on the role and experience of the Community Action Team for the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund. The session will explore how the creation and facilitation of the Community Action Team incorporated power-building strategies and principles of trust-based philanthropy. This focus created a space for open and dynamic dialogue that centered justice and liberation.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Tackling Systemic Racism Through Your Endowment
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 NETWORKING BREAK: Rise Up in Solidarity
Join your host, John Chen, as we each share our own journey towards solidarity. This session is all about connecting, and learning, with each other through a series of short, small group, discussions.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Equitable Grantmaking Is A Thing? How Using Demographic Data Can Help
Closing Session: Gun Violence and Implications for the Region
Gun violence is a widespread issue that has had a direct and devastating impact on the lives of all who live, work, play, or worship across our region. Community wellbeing, a sense of belonging, and safety are at the core of a thriving and equitable region. Christine Robinson, President of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, will provide insights on the issue of community violence.
VIRTUAL MEET UP | Find YOUR NETWORK in Philanthropy
This is your opportunity to CONNECT with your peers and expand your NETWORK. All conference attendees are invited to join your host, John Chen, CEO of Engaging Virtual Meetings, as he helps you engage with others, learn how to network without being #zawkward* and get the most out of your conference experience.
*What is #zawkward? It’s that awkward turtle feeling that we all get when we try to network virtually via Zoom.
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Using Data to Guide Nonprofits through an Uncertain Future…
Day 1 Keynote - M. Roger Holland, The Spirtuals Project - Lessons from History: Folk Wisdom of the Negro Spirituals
Featured Speaker: Michael O'Bryan, Humanature
Interview with Dr. Alandra Washington, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Philanthropy Network's incoming president Christine Robinson will interview Dr. Alandra Washington, Vice President, Transformation and Organizational Effectiveness at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on developing an intentional equity culture in a foundation.
One Journey: Racial Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
DAY 2 CONCURRENT SESSION | How Livable Community Creates Equitable Neighborhoods
Communities across the country are integrating smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development to design and build healthy, sustainable, inclusive, and safe neighborhoods for all ages. Join local experts in a conversation on how livable communities support policies, programs, and inclusive practices to help older adults age in place.
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DAY 3 CONCURRENT SESSION | Disruption: How organizing is moving philanthropy’s goals
One of Philadelphia's broadest reaching and most vibrant community organizing projects is POWER. POWER is a multi racial, multi faith organizing force in the state of PA for racial and economic justice on a livable planet. POWER connects a grass roots base with points of public leverage to shape policy that works for people and the planet. As we approach urgent questions such as voting rights, education equity, and climate justice we need a more engaged population of people fighting for all of our communities.
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.
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.
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.