Under One Sky – Draft Agenda as of 8/3/16. Subject to change without notice
Tuesday, September 13 – Day One
9:00 a.m. Registration Opens
9:00 – 12:00 p.m. Philanthropy Northwest Board Meeting
10:00 – 12:00 p.m. (Optional) Foundant User Group
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Optional) Orientation Lunch for New Members and First Time Conference Attendees
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Pre-conference Networking by Interest Areas
2:00 p.m. Conference Begins
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Native Welcome & Blessing, Opening Community Keynote & Plenary
3:45 – 5:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions I
- Working Alongside our Nonprofit Partners, A Study by Five State Nonprofit Associations
- Waking the Giant in Education Policy
- Actions Speak Louder than Words
- Finding Our Voice and Getting into Policy Change
- Community Change Starts with People
- Stronger Nonprofits = A Stronger Community: Capacity Building in Rural Areas
- Walking with Data: Transforming Community Participation
5:30 p.m. Board, Sponsor and Conference Committee Reception at Grant Creek Ranch (by invitation only)
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Welcome Dinner at Grant Creek Ranch
Wednesday, September 14 – Day Two
7:30 a.m. Registration Open
8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Breakfast Plenary: "Equity Matters in Philanthropy"
9:45 – 11:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions II and Mini-Institute
- Tools to Ensure Inclusive and Equitable Processes Within our Organizations
- Social Enterprise as a Model for Economic Inclusion in Rural and Reservation
- Foundations in the Headlines -- How to Stay Off the Front Page
- Margin to Center: A Leadership Scan
- Developing & Applying an Intersectional Equity Lens to Philanthropy: A "How To" Three Hour Mini-Institute
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions III and Mini-Institute (continued)
- Advancing Racial Equity and Authentic Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples Through Dialogue
- Focus on Rural America
- Your Leadership, Your Reflective Practice
- What’s Current in Impact Investing from Local to Regional
- Developing & Applying an Intersectional Equity Lens to Philanthropy: A "How To" Three Hour Mini-Institute (continued)
- Employee Engagement: Defining the Value of your Work
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Networking Lunch & Pop-Up Session Marketplace
Lunch Option: Native American Youth and Generation Indigenous, a White House Initiative
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Symposiums and Learning Tours
Symposiums
- Health Funders Leveraging Partnerships to Tackle Large-Scale Community Health Issues
- Community Foundations Working Group
- Homeless State of Emergency
Learning Tours
- Learning Tour A: Payne Family Native American Center
- Learning Tour B: Arts in Zootown
- Learning Tour C: Local Food as an Economic Driver
- Learning Tour D: Tell Us Something: A Learning Tour of the Mind
4:00– 5:00 p.m. 40th Anniversary Reception & Peer Pop-Up Voting
5:00– 6:00 p.m. Break
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Missoula Dine-Around Options
- Dine-Arounds at Local Restaurants (sign-up) at registrration
- Dinner on your own
Thursday, September 15 – Day Three
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Breakfast, Conversation with the Philanthropy Northwest Board and Membership Meeting
9:30 – 11:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions IV
- Stepping Up our Game: How are We Shifting to Address Challenges?
- Trustee-only Salon, a trusted space for Boards of Directors and Trustees
- Pop-Up Session A – crowdsourced sessions voted in by you
- Pop-Up Session B – crowdsourced sessions voted in by you
- Pop-Up Session C – crowdsourced sessions voted in by you
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Closing Community Keynote: Where Do We Go From Here?
11:30 a.m. Conference Ends