Featured Guest Speakers
Conference Venue
Saint Kate-The Arts Hotel located on downtown Milwaukee’s Riverwalk
139 E. Kilbourn Avenue – Milwaukee, WI
15 minute drive from Milwaukee Mitchell Airport
Conference Schedule and Agenda Highlights
Tuesday May 20: 5:30-7pm at Saint Kate Hotel
- Welcome reception (Deep Image Room 3rd floor)
- Dinner on your own
Wednesday May 21: 8:30am – 4:45pm at Saint Kate Hotel
- Breakfast buffet from 7:30-8:30am
- Conference Kick Off & Welcome to Milwaukee!
- Keynote: A Commitment to Equity and Opportunity
- Andrea Abrams Executive Director, Defending American Values Coalition/American Pride Rises Network
- How Community Foundations Are Responding
- Dan Kildee, President & CEO, Community Foundation for Greater Flint
- Mary Jo Jean-Francois, VP of Impact, Community Foundation for Greater Dubuque
- LuTonya Russell-Humes, VP Grants & Programs, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation
- Informed Communities: Supporting Democracy & Civic Health
- Teresa Gorman, Associate Director, xxx, Democracy Fund
- Community Foundations and Policy Advocacy: A Panel Discussion
- Justina Acevedo-Cross, Senior Director of Community Strategy, Hawaii Community Foundation
- Phil Koch, VP Policy & Community Impact, The Pittsburgh Foundation
- Vincent Lyles, Executive Director, Milwaukee Succeeds, Greater Milwaukee Foundation
- Systems Change Workshops (concurrent sessions)
- Policy Change Toolkit for Community Foundations: Lizzy Ferrara,
Policy Analyst, Research to Action Lab, Urban Institute
- Racial Equity Systems Self-Assessment: Pamela Ross, Consultant
- Policy Change Toolkit for Community Foundations: Lizzy Ferrara,
- Depart at 6:15pm for ThriveOn King
- Introduction to the space and small group tours
- Reception and dinner
Thursday May 22: 8:30am – 3:30pm at ThriveOn King
- Depart Saint Kate hotel for transportation to ThriveOn King at 7:45am
- Breakfast buffet from 8:00-8:30am
- Celebrating Our Work and Our Selves
- The Power of Networks to Drive Local Change
- Nisha Patel, Moderator
- Dr. Kara Ahmed, Executive Director, Educare
- AJ Herrmann, Director, Policy & Program Innovation, Accelerator for America and National Housing Crisis Task Force
- Sukhi Samra, Executive Director, Mayors & Counties for Guaranteed Income
- Roundtable Discussions
- Community Foundation Climate Collaborative: Cait Botschner, CFCC
- Demographic Data/US NonProfits: Anna Koob, Candid
- Others TBD
- Call to Action and Closing Remarks
Registration
- Registration is free for CFON members and you may bring up to 3 representatives from your foundation
- Register using this link. Space is limited. The deadline for registration is May 9th.
- Reserve your hotel room at our discounted rate of $229/night + tax at Saint Kate-The Arts Hotel. Space is limited and the cut-off date for reservations at the group rate is April 28th.