9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Check-in |
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Workshops |
Census & Redistricting: Organizing, Legal & Policy Strategies Shaping the Decade Ahead | |
Funding Operational Expenses for Long-Term Capacity Building | |
Unlocking Our Full Potential: How Philanthropic Practices Are Evolving to Support Building Power | |
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Workshops |
The Power of Intermediaries: Collaboration as a Path to Funding Democracy (Funders Only) | |
Nurturing Startup Civic Engagement Through Intentional Philanthropy | |
How Participatory Budgeting and Organizing around ARP, IIJA, and IRA can Strengthen Civic Participation | |
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM | African Drum Circle & Tour Congo Square |
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Speakeasy Reception Celebrating our Speakers, Session Organizers, Convening Planning Committee, Sponsors and members of the Advisory Board for their tireless work to make this convening a success. This event is invitation only. |
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 |
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 |
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 | Return back to the JW Marriott |
