Leading Locally 2025 - All Programming
Conference Sessions
Leading Locally 2025 presents a diverse lineup of sessions and speakers, delivered by community and place-based funders and their partners from around the country. The concurrent, peer learning, and breakfast roundtable sessions on our schedule were selected through a call for sessions that received over 250 proposals.
Thursday, June 12
Are foundation boards composed in a just way? Are they equipped to enhance the creativity and innovation needed across the nonprofit sector? Foundation governance mostly occurs out of view and often flies under the radar of discussion and debate in the sector. Two Minnesota foundation CEOs—Tuleah Palmer of the Blandin Foundation and Kevin Walker of the Northwest Area Foundation—will reflect on board composition, board practices, and the governance challenges and opportunities facing foundations in the future. Their conversation will be shaped and enriched by BoardSource CEO Monika Kalra Varma.