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.

Wednesday, June 11

2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. — Development Pecha Kucha: A Rapid Share of Ideas

Concurrent Session

In this session, development professionals will share a key idea through a short visual presentation meant to inspire (20 slides in six minutes). This session aims to change the traditional 'pedestrian' panel discussion and make it energetic and fast-paced, with a bit of networking and sharing mixed in. This session is for development professionals at mid to large foundations. Participants will gain one idea to implement at their foundation, as well as new connections.

Speaker(s): Eric Hozempa, Chief Executive Officer, Longmont Community Foundation; Erin Johnson, Vice President, Community Investment, Central Carolina Community Foundation; Chris Quaka, President & CEO, Benton Community Foundation; Lottie Ferguson, Vice President, Development and Donor Services, Community Foundation of Greater Flint