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With best practices evolving at a rapid pace, operational excellence often feels out of reach. Attend this session to arm yourself with the latest trends, processes, and tricks in operations. Learn about shifts in the human resource and financial regulatory environment and explore tools designed to optimize productivity and streamline workflow, empowering your organization to achieve more with less. You’ll be prepared to optimize opportunities and stay ahead of current and future threats.
Join a panel discussion where Detroit Future Cities, along with their community partners, will share insights into their innovative model. Grounded in both data and community voice, this model aims to create positive impact and foster sustainable development. Learn how these organizations leverage community input, analyze data, and implement evidence-based strategies to address urban challenges effectively. From neighborhood revitalization to equitable resource allocation, discover how this holistic approach is shaping Detroit’s future.
Moderated by Hanna Love of the Brookings Institution, this panel includes one representative from each Ind. community participating in the Community-Centered Economic Inclusion program:
Before community voice can be centered, it must be heard, understood, and viewed as important. As such, this opening conversation will set the tone for the rest of the day to come.
Join us for OPTIONAL Morning Meditation Yoga.
This morning yoga class starts with a good cleansing and centering followed by awakening moves for the entire body. Next, the class moves through the Vinyasa Flow containing sun salutations, centerings, and balance. This flow offers strength, flexibility, concentration, and breath work as a great starting point for beginners with options for those who want to challenge themselves. The class winds down in Savasana with a guided meditation.
A productive, equitable, internal culture aligned with a foundation’s mission and goals is essential to support nonprofit resilience and success. In other words, if we are striving to have more impact, we should look not just at our external strategies and theories of change but also at how our organizational behaviors, assumptions, and values either support or potentially undermine what we are trying to achieve.
Capacity building is critical to impactful grantmaking. Traditional models of capacity building, however, don’t always account for culture, systems, and power in its design. By not fully assessing assumptions and values, equity principles fall by the wayside and capacity building instead reinforces patterns of harm in the communities we intend to benefit. Join this session to learn from GEO’s latest work on Reimagining Capacity Building, which examines principles for centering equity in our capacity building efforts.
Join this panel to consider further potential impacts of issues presented in the keynote given by Jeremy Beer. The major philanthropic reform proposals being considered nationally—the curtailment of donor privacy, increased private foundation payout requirements, restrictions on donor-advised funds, and more—will be discussed. The all-star panel, moderated by IPA President & CEO Claudia Cummings, will provide more context and detail on the proposed reforms, which could threaten endowments and the survival of philanthropy as a whole.