Are you inspired by your innovative community foundation colleagues around the country and looking to implement some new and proven strategies in your own communications? Do you or your teammates have communication responsibilities, regardless of your title, and need a little inspiration?…

What happens when a foundation makes a grant to a potential hate group? How do you have the important conversations that inform the development of values-aligned grantmaking policies? And how do you engage your board, your staff, and your community before there’s a problem? Join this session…

Supporting the development of place-based and jurisdictional projects helps restore and preserve natural ecosystems and improve livelihoods. This session will provide insights into a collaboration between a funder, the WWF, and ranchers and their successes and challenges. Attendees will learn…

Over the last two decades, many community foundations have invested in growing donor advised fund assets under management and aligned services. Was that DAF growth at the expense of other asset development, such as endowment building? In this session, we will hear from two community…

Join this session for a thoughtful exploration of Community-Centric Fundraising (CCF) and how it is informed by community impact, needs, and voices to invite donor engagement and support improved outcomes for everyone. Park City Community Foundation will share the principles of their CCF…

There are multiple valuable ways to approach equity discussions, and these conversations can be very locally oriented and tailored to meet communities where they are while growing their equity work in a community-specific way. This session will focus on the nuanced equity work occurring in…

With a focus on the Service Year Impact Communities Model, learn about how philanthropy, Service Year programs, local government agencies and elected officials, community leaders, educational institutions and other stakeholders are working together to implement this model locally to match…

Using the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to envision and track community progress can take different forms in different communities. This session will highlight the work of three community foundations and how they have worked collaboratively with each other and in their own…

MRIs and PRIs bring opportunity to leverage foundation assets and provide useful vehicles for collaboration. Join us for a lively conversation around specific examples, including The Philanthropy Collective, a consortium of philanthropic organizations and individuals that exists to learn,…

Join this interactive conversation to learn how this community foundation embedded equity in their grantmaking processes. Highlights will include areas of opportunity for both programmatic and grants management staff, identifying how small changes can have a larger impact, reducing the burden…

Join this session to hear from women of color leaders at the helm of women's funds about their strategies for engaging donors and communities in advocacy, policy, and systems change efforts. Today, more than 50% of place-based women’s funds in the U.S. are led by women of color. They bring…

The nation’s first civic leadership program designed specifically to connect people with disabilities to positions of influence and power on foundation boards, commissions, task forces, and grassroots leadership opportunities was a collaborative funder initiative. This initiative, now called…

This session takes a deep dive into how climate change affects all communities and how all of us – regardless of focus area – can incorporate a climate lens into our work. Using county-level data that includes past climate disaster declarations and costs of recent climate events, participants…

The Bay Area Equity Analysis is a data and policy tool that places the power of reliable, accurate, and deeply disaggregated data into the hands of movement leaders and policy makers to win on equity and achieve transformative policy changes that improves lives in the Bay Area. Using this…

Hear about efforts in Colorado, which has been internationally recognized for rallying foundations, higher education, civic leaders, businesses and individuals to address the crisis of declining local journalism and its impact on communities. Philanthropy can plan a pivotal role in catalyzing…

Philanthropic foundations increasingly recognize that listening to the people at the heart of their work, who are the most affected by their programs and often the least consulted, is essential. Listening, done well, leads to more effective programs and more equitable outcomes. But what if…