2025 National Convening

Concurrent Sessions: 

Tuesday, July 15:

• Let Us Live: Funding an Opposition to Eugenics
• From Vision to Victory: Advancing the Power to Win Through Strategic Collaboration
• Winning in the States: Coordinating Philanthropy to Resource at the Hyperlocal Level to Protect and Advance Statewide Wins (NFG's Integrated Rural Strategies Group)
• Investing in People Power in an Age of Oligarchy (NFG's Funders for a Just Economy)
• From the Legacy of Black Reconstruction to our Shared Liberated Futures
• 10 Years of Funding: Lessons Learned from Resourcing Our Movements

Wednesday, July 16:

• From Nashville to the Nation: Building Power to Counter White Nationalism
• How Industrial Policy in the U.S. South can Support Building Power for Workers and Communities and Strengthen our Democracy
• Winning Resource Shifts to Regeneration & Rematriation
• Youth Organizing, a Pathway to Liberation for All
• The Multi-Entity Revolution: Organizing Capital, Movement Ownership & Independent Revenue Through LLCs
• How Tenants are Powering a Mass Movement for Democratic Participation (NFG's Democratizing Development Program)
• Building Worker & Community Power in the South
• Climate Justice is Queer Justice: Funding the Frontlines
• Building — and Funding – Narrative Power from the Ground Up
• The Midwest Moment: Resourcing Organizing for a More Just Future (NFG's Midwest Organizing Infrastructure Funders)
• As the South Grows: Propagating Power and Political Infrastructure
• Transformative Organizing for Power

Thursday, July 17:

• Power (and Money!) to the People: Census and Redistricting Put Communities in Charge
• Securing a Sustainable Future By Supporting Community Defense Across Funding Priorities
• Native Land Justice: What it Takes to Rematriate Stolen Lands
• Let’s Play with Capital Stacks! How Changing our Investing Strategies can Build Power for Communities (NFG's Philanthropy Forward)
• Resourcing Communities Amidst Rising Criminalization (NFG's Amplify Fund)
• Culture and Community Power: Strengthening Power Building Ecosystems in Memphis Through Place-based and Trans-local Approaches