2025 National Convening

The 2025 National Convening: Seeding (and Ceding) Transformational Power was held in Nashville, Tennessee the week of July 15-17, 2025! Through this Convening, the NFG community returned to the South, building on six years of work in the state beginning in 2019 when Tennessee became one of Amplify Fund’s eight places. 

The convening was a space for grantmakers to co-conspire and strategize around seeding transformational power — investing in grassroots power building, movement organizing and infrastructure, relationships, and supporting BIPOC communities now and for the long term — and ceding power — shifting and ending harmful philanthropic practices, being accountable to movement and communities, and partnering with movements to shift philanthropic portfolios in support of their long-term strategies.