We hope you’ll join us for TFN’s 25th Anniversary Conference in Baltimore from March 17-19! Our TFN25 theme — Be Bold Together — reflects our belief that philanthropic leaders must boldly take courageous action, especially in these uncertain times.
The road ahead is long, and demands that we harness the skills, resources and collective strength needed to meet the challenge. Our Skill-Building Workshops offer the opportunity for active learning and exploration about key topics that will help funders become more equitable, effective and empathetic to the communities they serve and the grantmakers they support.
Skill-Building workshops are 135 minute, interactive sessions held March 17 from 9:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Skill-Building Workshops at TFN25
Myth-busting Nonprofit Finance: Bridging Numbers and Impact for Equitable Grantmaking
It’s not only who we fund, but how we fund that matters.
Step into an immersive learning experience featuring Nonprofit Finance Funds’ Full Cost Game. As funders, you’ll embark on a journey through the complex, inequitable nonprofit landscape — navigating hurdles and celebrating victories.
You In? Creating Champions for Equitable Listening
In the last 10 years, we’ve seen rapid growth in the number of funders championing high-quality, equitable feedback and listening. But we’re still in the minority across philanthropy as a whole.
In this highly interactive session, you’ll hear stories from funders about how they’re building that buy-in, plus share tools and develop strategies for our specific focus areas and contexts.
Burnout, Boundaries and Compassion Fatigue: Healing Practices for Compassionate Leaders in Philanthropy
How can funders build compassionate, balanced and sustainable work practices?
This interactive session adopts a healing-centered and equity-based approach to support philanthropy practitioners advance these essential goals — including identifying burnout, setting boundaries and addressing compassion fatigue.
By the end, you will be equipped with best practices in grounding techniques, confident decision-making, and trauma-informed leadership rooted in community care.
Unlocking Community Power Through Cooperative Development
Funding for enterprise development often centers around “the what” and “the who”: products and services those businesses are providing and which communities are given the opportunity to start and be employed by those businesses. This session will look at “the how.”
We’ll examine models that cooperatively share ownership and governance responsibility with workers and communities. We will learn from cooperative development leaders and funders that support them about how cooperatives advance broader community goals, from supporting returning citizens to reindustrializing former manufacturing communities.
Advancing an Equitable Infrastructure Workforce: Core Competencies for Funders
With tens of thousands of new jobs being created as a result of federal investments, funders across our network have been eager to better understand and invest in equitable workforce development.
This session, hosted by TFN’s peer-led working groups, will dive into the core competencies for funders stepping into this space and deepen skills for those already investing.
Effective Narratives In an Era of Mistrust
As political polarization increases and divergent views on “facts” and “truth” threaten democracy, the ability to effectively communicate is more crucial than ever. This session will explore how narratives take shape — and what the research says about why people process information in different ways.
About TFN’s 25th Anniversary Conference
Join us March 17-19 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel as we learn, share and strategize. TFN25 offers skill-building workshops, deep-dive strategy sessions and opportunities to forge new connections and expand your professional networks.
Are you able to arrive early and/or stay late? Don’t miss out on our pre-conference events on Sunday, March 16! We’ll offer a Pre-Conference Learning Lab: Racial Equity in Practice and our popular TFN @ the Movies.
And we hope you’ll join us for the Post-conference Inclusive Economies Meeting: Leveraging Federal Funds from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, immediately following our Closing Plenary and lunch.
➡️Check out our TFN25 Anniversary Conference website to view our Learning Agenda, Accessibility and Wellbeing policies, and more!