April Steele
Designing for Social Impact: How adopting an innovation mindset and human-centered design practices can help scale your organization's impact
Katie Spencer
Threats to Nonprofit Sustainability and How to Safeguard Your Organization
Ketsia Saint-Armand & Rachel Dematteo
Telling Your Financial Story: Developing Compelling Messages to Activate Your Board, Stakeholders, and Community
Mary J. McConner
Cultural Equity 101: 7 Ways to Build an Equity-Centered Organizational Culture
Karin Douglas & Tokiwa Smith
Trust Your Intuition: Building a Board Isn't Rocket Science
James Goalder
Keep them Coming Back: How to Use Stories to Drive Donor Retention and Authentic Relationships
Kalley Dunn Clausen & Deborah Marshall
Why Core Values Matter to Your Organization’s Success
Xavier Ramey - Keynote Speaker
Nonprofit Partners, Advocates, and Challengers for a Justice-Informed Society
Catalyst Awards Show
Join us as we celebrate those nonprofit organizations and professionals making a difference in our community.
The Great Return: Dax-Devlon Ross
After 18 uncertain and arduous months, many of us are resuming our regularly scheduled lives. Once again we are gathering and traveling. But just as getting older doesn't, in and of itself, make us wiser, change alone is not synonymous with growth. So, as a sector, what have we learned? And how will that learning persist under pressure?
Paychecks, Benefits, and Work Cultures: Findings from the 2021 Mid-South Nonprofit Compensation Report – Kevin Dean
Momentum Nonprofit Partners will unveil its 2021 Mid-South Nonprofit Compensation Report at the Virtual Summit this year! Join Dr. Kevin Dean, CEO of Momentum Nonprofit Partners, as he walks session attendees through the findings of the report.
How to Destroy Your Organization Through Employee Divestment
The 2021 Mid-South Nonprofit Compensation Report revealed that nonprofit CEOs were woefully under-developing key staff members such as administrative employees and development staff. The 2020 Race to Lead report revealed that nonprofit staff of color were more eager than their White counterparts to lead organizations, but they are given less opportunity to do so. Why are nonprofit leaders not…
It's Not Over: Why Organizations Must Continue to Adapt
The global pandemic of 2020 required us to adapt to constant change. Although we have vaccines, we are still not out of the woods. In this session, we will discuss why adaptation is always a necessity in organizations, provide examples of healthy adaptations, and offer some warnings against maladaptations.
Rejecting the Deficit Mindset in Community Engagement and Outreach: Dr. Norma Gonzalez
Poor and culturally diverse families are often presumed to be incapable of offering positive learning and life experiences for their children. Instead, many educators, social workers, and nonprofit staff recognize and value the rich knowledge, assets, and cultural ways of these communities, using them as tools to co-create strategy, interventions, and programming for nonprofits. In acknowledging the cultural, social…
It Takes Two: Successful University Partnerships, Erin Nelson
Have you ever wanted to find an intern? Partner on a service-learning class project? Have your program evaluated? In this session, participants will learn more about how they can increase and improve organizational capacity through partnerships…