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Day 3 Concurrent Session - Local Activism and the Pursuit of Racial Justice

A single voice is often not heard and yet, when they come together, the world can hear. How can we come together to ensure that activism and promotion of redress of U.S. historical racial justices are brought to the forefront of our communities? While high-profile reparation efforts garner media attention, many local restitution efforts often lack greater support and cross-sector awareness. The U.S. African American Redress Network is an innovative model for scholars and advocates to further groundbreaking work in activism and to promote redress for U.S. historical racial injustices.

Date & Time: 
12/10/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Day 2 Concurrent Session - Love to Action Storytelling Workshop

Love Now Media's storytelling workshops are not just for storytellers but for anyone looking to connect with love as a value in building new relationships, healing, nurturing communities, advocating for justice, and making a social impact as our world navigates a global pandemic, racial reckoning, and polarized politics.

Date & Time: 
12/09/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Day 2 Concurrent Session - 2020’s Elections: Like So Much Else This Year, Unprecedented

COVID-19 changed just about everything—including how people voted (if not so much for whom they voted). Learn a bit about the seismic shift to early voting;  2020’s state election results;  the highest voter turnout since 1900; the role philanthropy played this year; and what’s up with redistricting next year

Date & Time: 
12/09/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Day 3 Concurrent Session - 2020’s Elections: Like So Much Else This Year, Unprecedented

COVID-19 changed just about everything—including how people voted (if not so much for whom they voted). Learn a bit about the seismic shift to early voting; 2020’s state election results; the highest voter turnout since 1900; the role philanthropy played this year; and what’s up with redistricting next year.

Date & Time: 
12/10/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Day 2 Concurrent Session - Philanthropic-Private Partnerships: New Models for Delivering Impact through Technology

The COVID-19 Pandemic has created new challenges for our sector, but it has also brought perennial problems to the forefront.  Two areas loom large:  How do we help nonprofits build capacity around digital engagement, particularly at a time when in-person activity is limited, so they can build relationships with current and potential supporters?  How can nonprofits and foundations assess the impact of their efforts beyond their own organizations and build momentum toward moving the needle on recalcitrant problems on a citywide, regional, or state level?  How can philanthropic dollars be coo

Date & Time: 
12/09/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Day 2 Concurrent Session - Blueprint for a Better Safety Net: Participatory Grantmaking in Action

Join us as we discuss a participatory planning effort to redesign the social safety net in order to better weather the COVID-19 pandemic and address deeply rooted racial and social inequities. In this session, HealthSpark Foundation staff, a nonprofit participant, and a community partner will discuss their experiences in this community-driven process, share lessons learned from building collective vision during this momentous time in history, and outline key actions their organization will be taking as a result of this work.

Date & Time: 
12/09/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Opening Session | Radical Imagination: Seizing the Moment to Create a Movement

Over the next four days, you will join your community to begin the process of re-envisioning our collective future and exploring bold new ways we can work together to build a more just and equitable Greater Philadelphia. Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia President Sidney Hargro, Philanthropy Network Chair Ashley Del Bianco, and your SPARX Facilitators, Eric M Bailey and Yvonne Moore will share with you where Philanthropy Network is currently and where it is moving to and more importantly, how you are key to creating a movement.

Date & Time: 
12/08/2020
9:00am - 9:55am

Day 1 Concurrent Session - Tackling Housing Justice

For the 100 million Americans — especially people of color, living at or below 200 percent of the poverty level — housing costs and homelessness pose one of the most fundamental threats to our ability to thrive as a nation. Many factors have contributed to the root causes of the current state of housing, including racially-biased government policies, systems, and structures; predatory capital practices and speculative markets; land and building costs; and extreme income inequality have all played a role in creating the affordability crisis we are experiencing today.

Date & Time: 
12/08/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Day 1 Concurrent Session - The Whole Entrepreneur: Designing a Just and Equitable Business Ecosystem for Black and People of Color Businesses

While Black and Latinx residents make up 42% and 15% of the population respectively, they only own 8% and 3% of small businesses in the city. Annually, business owners of color in Philadelphia earn only 13% of revenue compared to their white counterparts. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and a renewed pursuit for social justice, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, the City of Philadelphia, and PIDC have embarked on an endeavor to understand and address the unique needs of small businesses owned by Black and people of color, women, and immigrants in Philadelphia.

Date & Time: 
12/08/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Day 3 Concurrent Session - Tackling Systemic Racism Through Your Endowment

How can investors use their capital to tackle systemic racism and advance the well-being for communities of color? This session explores how investors/ foundations can use their capital to address systemic racism and better support communities of color.  The financial industry has a responsibility to better understand how it distributes wealth, resources and power in our economy.

Date & Time: 
12/10/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

DAY 3 CONCURRENT SESSION | Leveraging The Many ‘Gifts’ That Come From A Modernized Grantmaking Process

The sector is evolving at a breakneck pace - the way funders engage, the way funders think and the way funders give. Understanding the grantmaking fundamentals through a DEI lens and amplifying its impact through emerging tech offerings will ensure continued high impact giving, strengthen funder and fundee relationships and leverage a trove of quality data that can help make for more effective service delivery.

Through this session, participants will:

Date & Time: 
10/08/2021
9:30am - 10:25am

DAY 1 CONCURRENT SESSION | Shifting Power: Understanding Advocacy as an Equity Strategy

In recent years, many funders have focused on how to better infuse equity into their philanthropy, and, separately, on the role of advocacy in their work. What few have realized is that these two concepts are deeply intertwined.

The systemic imbalances of power that give rise to advocacy work are also at the heart of many of the pressing challenges facing communities of color. Forward-thinking funders looking to have impact must address both. This session will explore the connection between race, power, inequity, and pressing social issues.

 Participants will:

Date & Time: 
10/06/2021
11:00am - 12:00pm

KEYNOTE | Grassroots: Moving Together With Purpose - Jennifer Ching, North Star Fund

Grassroots: Moving Together With Purpose

Why are grassroots movements so effective and how can your organization learn and support them? Jennifer Ching, the Executive Director of North Star Fund, will share her organization’s experience in creating people-powered philanthropy that mobilizes resources towards social justice movements.

Date & Time: 
10/07/2021
9:00am - 9:55am

COFFEE & YOUR VIRTUAL SPACE

Come on in, grab your favorite cup of joe (or tea, water, etc), and get to know the virtual world that SPARX is inhabiting. This is a great way to familiarize yourself with how to navigate through the conference platform, get your questions answered and receive assistance before the show begins. We will open with a short overview of the platform and then answer any questions.

Date & Time: 
10/06/2021
8:00am - 8:25am

DAY 2 CONCURRENT SESSION | Participatory Grantmaking - Exploring Different Models

This session will showcase several different models for participatory grantmaking. Each panelist will share about their model, approach and what contributed to their choice, how they gained institutional support, and lessons learned from the actual grantmaking process.

Panelists:

  • Shira Hodges, COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
  • Ashley L. Feuer-Edwards and Joanna Otero-Cruz, Kensington Community Resilience Fund
  • Sayeeda Rashid, PA is Ready!

Moderators:

Date & Time: 
10/07/2021
11:00am - 12:00pm

DAY 3 CONCURRENT SESSION | Community Ownership of Real Estate

Who wins when a neighborhood changes? Traditional real estate investment and market-based incentives do not prioritize local residents. Join this panel to hear from two organizations, one in Philadelphia, that are moving real estate assets out of the speculative private market. In both models they are centering neighborhood governance and local control over the assets for the benefit of the communities that live there.

Panelists:

Date & Time: 
10/08/2021
9:30am - 10:25am

DAY 3 CONCURRENT SESSION | Resilient Futures: Building Power for Black Communities

During this interactive session, participants will hear more about what black organizers and black-led organizations will need to fight for racial justice in Philadelphia. During this session participants will get to hear from a brief panel about the experiences of black organizers in Philadelphia and get into breakout groups to brainstorm solutions and roles for philanthropy. Participants will leave with a clearer sense of the barriers and challenges faced by black organizers as well as opportunities for philanthropy to be better partners in the fight for racial justice.

Date & Time: 
10/08/2021
9:30am - 10:25am

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