Community Foundation Summit 2025
Please join the Massachusetts Community Foundation Partnership (MACFP) for a full day Summit to provide space for all Community Foundation staff to strengthen relationships, learn from each other, and discuss challenges unique to Community Foundations.
Participants will explore topics of interest CF staff, connect with those with similar roles and responsibilities, learn from each other, and more!
The Summit is designed to:
- Create space for all community foundation staff to learn from peers on a variety of topics that make community foundations unique in our role working with donors, nonprofits and leading on issues in our regions.
- Build and strengthen relationships between and among staff who hold similar roles to facilitate learning and exchange at the summit and after. Job function groups will be: Administration, CEOs & EDs, Development & Fundraising, Grantmaking Policies & Practices, Marketing & Communications, and Operations & Finance.
- Develop shared understanding of critical issues facing our communities where philanthropy can contribute resources and leadership.
Our Theme this year is:
Community Foundations are Built for this Moment: Adapting to Changing Strategies and Expectations
The agenda for the day is as follows:
8:00 – 9:00am – Check-in & Breakfast
9:00 – 9:20 am – Welcome
9:20 – 10:20am – Plenary
10:20 – 10:30am – Break
10:30 – 11:45am – Concurrent Sessions #1
11:45 – 12:45pm – Lunch
12:45 – 2:00pm – Concurrent Sessions #2
2:00 - 2:10pm – Break
2:10 – 3:25pm – Job Function Breakout
3:25 - 3:30pm – Break
3:30 - 4:00pm – Reflections on the Day and Next Steps
4:00 – 5:30pm – Networking Reception
More details to follow.
About the Network:
The Massachusetts Community Foundation Partnership is a collaborative of 14 Community Foundations throughout Massachusetts, partnering with nonprofit organizations to strengthen their missions, programs and capacities to contribute to and provide a leadership voice toward stabilizing, re-envisioning and rebuilding the nonprofit sector; connecting and strengthening community foundations for greater impact; and working together to deepen impact and lead on critical and common issues facing our communities and Massachusetts. This partnership is fiscally sponsored and managed by Philanthropy MA.