This session is designed to create a rare space where funders and community-based organizations can engage in honest, grounded dialogue, learning from each other’s realities, constraints, and opportunities.

At a time when many organizations are navigating burnout, financial instability, staffing transitions, and uncertainty, this workshop creates space for reflection, strategic alignment, and relationship-building across sectors.

This workshop is designated for organizations that have recently experienced internal challenges with staff shortages, been impacted by recent financial barriers, experienced leadership transitions and or in need of a new strategic focus for the roadmap ahead.

Together, participants will explore what becomes possible when we move from crisis-response and scarcity thinking toward more courageous, collaborative, and community-rooted approaches to sustainability.

Participants Will Walk Away With:

• A clearer understanding of their organization’s current resourcing reality and opportunities
• A draft “abundance pathway” (how to stabilize, grow, or reimagine resources)
• Tools and a framework to develop a strategic compass rooted in their values, community, and current capacity
• Practical strategies for navigating funding gaps, staffing transitions, and shifting priorities
• Language and tools to communicate their value and needs to partners and funders
• A set of next steps aligned with their organizational capacity

Community-based organization leaders, program staff, board members, and others who are most impacted by or responsible for organization-wide decisions, strategic direction, and sustainability.

Funders, philanthropic partners, and investors who are interested in learning directly from community-based organizations and exploring more responsive, community-informed approaches to resourcing, partnership, and long-term sustainability.

This session is intentionally designed to move beyond transactional approaches to funding and partnership, creating space for more relational, trust-based, and community-centered ways of working together. Both community-based organizations and funders will engage as participants, each walking away with tools, insights, and next steps to support more aligned, sustainable work.

Funders will not participate as passive observers, but as active contributors in conversations about sustainability, partnership, accountability, and community-informed investment.

The session will include structured opportunities for cross-sector connection, collaborative problem-solving, and identifying actionable next steps beyond the workshop itself.

Registration will be on a sliding scale and is designed for at least 2 individuals from each organization to attend. Each registration tier includes some level of complementary follow up after the completion of the event. 

We ask participants to review this chart and sliding scale, and self-identify what level of investment is right for their organization. The registration page does not require any codes – please simply register and enter the amount that corresponds to your organization.

Interested in further investment? Sponsorship and scholarship opportunities are available (see page 2 of the link).

We have limited scholarship funds available to support organizations who would like to attend. Learn more here about our prioritization, application, and the selection process.