Join us for this peer-led event dedicated specifically to foundations working on advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or are open to learning more about how the SDGs can fit within their work.

Connect with foundation peers to learn about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The group meets monthly via Zoom to discuss SDG hot topics including education, local implementation, community alignment and communication, professional development, data, grantmaking, and more. This community is primarily focused on expanding the SDGs in the United States through community foundation action, but all nationalities are welcome.

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Local foundations play a critical role in fostering welcoming environments for immigrants. Leaders from the Walder Foundation and Welcoming America will share examples, lessons learned, and strategies for advancing immigrant inclusion — providing actionable insights for attendees to implement in their communities.

This is a session in our Leading Locally All Year Long series, featuring content designed for place-based funders.

Constructive Journalism, a method from Denmark, offers a way to center community needs while fostering civic dialogue. By funding this approach, philanthropy empowers journalism that helps people hear each other and find local solutions. This webinar will explore how the Community Foundation for Mississippi is using the method and will help attendees understand strategies for supporting constructive, place-based journalism.

This is a session in our Leading Locally All Year Long series, featuring content designed for place-based funders.

In 2024, the Best Buy Foundation took an audacious leap. Building on its history of place-based work in its hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul, it launched a national systems change effort around economic mobility for young people. This created a tension between its local and national strategies that it began managing through an integrative organization design. Best Buy Foundation leaders will share their design story and the specific tools they used to enact their multi-pronged approach. Attendees will learn how to apply these tools to their own organizations and how integrative organization design can power equitable impact.

This is a session in our Leading Locally All Year Long series, featuring content designed for place-based funders.

The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga and The Pew Charitable Trusts will share examples of recent partnerships in Tennessee and Minnesota as well as strategies and tools to address eviction and court-enforced debt collection. This webinar will share key takeaways on how to engage donors, policymakers, directly affected communities, and foundation staff when embarking on a new system change effort. Participants will work together to create strategies to strengthen partnerships and engage key stakeholders to successfully implement a system change initiative.

This is a session in our Leading Locally All Year Long series, featuring content designed for place-based funders.

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Leading Locally 2027

May 4-6 | Los Angeles

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This webinar will help you use stories and data to communicate the value of philanthropy and charitable giving. It builds on research from “Philanthropy’s New Voice,” the largest study of narratives in philanthropy, which examined what types of stories are more likely to build trust, what policymakers want to know from foundations, and how to describe the work foundations do clearly and transparently.

This is a session in our Leading Locally All Year Long series, featuring content designed for place-based funders.