AGENDA
*Please note that our Convening agenda is subject to change.
SUNDAY, APRIL 23
Pre-Convening 
MONDAY, APRIL 24
Convening Day 1

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Board Meeting

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Check-in

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Welcome / Opening Remarks

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Opening Plenary

From Injury to Intention: "How you gonna win when you ain't right within?"

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Breakout Sessions


Building a Multiracial Democracy: Learning from Movement Leaders in the South and Southwest


Building Local Power: Investment in Municipal Civic Engagement Strategy as the Cornerstone of Our Movement Toward Liberation


Expanding the “We” in We the People: Ending Felony Disenfranchisement in the South


Building and Sharing Power through Collaborative Governance


12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

Lunch Breakouts


People, Participation, and Power: How Black Voters See Their Power


The Civic Engagement Opportunity of a Decade: Organizing Communities, Expanding the Base, and Mobilizing Voters through the Implementation of Upcoming Federal Infrastructure Funds


Building Indigenous Political Power 


Filling the Progressive TikTok Gap


2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

General Plenary

Election Crisis: Prevention & Mitigation Ahead of 2024

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Breakout Sessions


LGBTQ+ Power Building for Progressive Wins


Implications of Climate Impacts on Long-term Power-Building Organizing Strategies


Small Donor, Big Impact: Structural Reforms for an Inclusive Democracy (Democracy Vouchers)


Fifty Years of Hip Hop - Investing in Honest Storytelling in the Black Community


3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Somatic Processing / Writing to Reveal & Heal


4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Convening in the Hallway MASS MEETING: Your vote belongs to you, not a happy few. Meet up in the hallway lounge to discuss the Tennessee Two.


6:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Second Line

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Masquerade Welcome Reception 

TUESDAY, APRIL 25
Convening Day 2

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Funders' Committee Action Fund Breakfast (c4) sponsored by Inatai No Limits: Advancing Black Political Power

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Check-in

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Daily Grounding

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

General Plenary

Truth & Reconciliation: What it Means to be a BIPOC Leader in this Moment

10:50 AM - 11:25 AM

Ignite Sessions


Ignite 1: Public Dollars for the Public Good Work


Ignite 2: Elections


Ignite 3: National Reproductive Justice Voter Collaborative

11:35 AM - 12:35 PM

Breakout Sessions


The Case for Building Power: Why Multi-entity Work Matters


What if We Held an Election and Everybody Came: The Case for Universal Voting


Disability Justice & Voting Access in the South


Cutting Against the Grain: How AAPI Groups are Reaching Voters Beyond Our Numbers


12:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Networking Lunch 

Relax, Relate, Release

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Breakout Sessions


Exploring Alternatives to Traditional Philanthropy (Funders Only)



Young BIPOC Voters: Investment & Infrastructure needed for AZ and GA


Defending Democracy and Ballot Measure Process in States and Localities


2:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Somatic Allyship / Writing to Discover & Affirm

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Breakout Sessions


Funders Collaboration for Growing Worker Power in the South (Funders Only)


Tenant Power at (and beyond!) the Polls


Policies to Mobilize Young BIPOC Voters


Building the Power of Immigrant Communities, State by State


4:30 PM - 5:15 PM

Closing Plenary

Power Building in Rural, Conservative and Other Overlooked Geographies

5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Acknowledgments / Remarks

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26
CLOSING DAY

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Whitney Plantation: Healing and Intention

Too often the demands of our busy lives and work cause us to continue as if all is well, as if we can entirely compartmentalize our heads and hearts. The Whitney Plantation will be an immersive experience to pay respect to ancestral grounds, foster healing, and set personal and communal intentions. This experience will be one of the most impactful at the 2023 Convening.

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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