EVENTS & PROGRAMS
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We believe exposure to innovation, collaboration with peers, and constructive debate propel us personally and in our grantmaking. To achieve this, our thought-provoking and constructive events address major shifts impacting the fields of education and philanthropy right now.
Upcoming Events
National Forum on Education Policy 2025
Grantmakers for Education, the Philanthropic Collaborative for Education, and Education Commission of the States seek to build a partnership between the political, professional, and philanthropic forces in education that could stimulate the kind of cooperation that is crucial to the future of American education. The lack of cohesion between policy, practice and philanthropy does not meet the current or future...
Trends in Education Philanthropy: Regional Benchmarking Gathering in Chicago
Join grantmaking colleagues in Chicago, Illinois to dive deeply into the findings and have conversations on key themes in our latest research report, Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2025. Registration closes June 25.
NatStart25: Rooted and Resilient
The Nature-Based Early Learning Conference is organized by the Natural Start Alliance, a project of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). Natural Start is a network of people and organizations that believe that all young children need frequent opportunities to experience, learn from, and care for nature and the environment through high-quality education. The Alliance serves as a backbone...
Neighborhood Funders Group 2025 National Convening
2025 National Convening: Seeding (and Ceding) Transformational Power will be a space for grantmakers to co-conspire and strategize around seeding transformational power — investing in grassroots powerbuilding, movement organizing and infrastructure, relationships, and supporting BIPOC communities now and for the long term — and ceding power — shifting and ending harmful philanthropic practices, being accountable to movement and communities, and partnering with movements to...
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EVENT ARCHIVE
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Our full archive of past events gives you the opportunity to revisit two years’ worth of annual conferences and programs. With so much information preserved on file, you can access the exclusive and exact information you need, any time you need it.
