Over the course of 40 hours, dedicated nonprofit practitioners sharpened their grant writing skills, built supportive peer networks, and walked away ready to write with purpose and strategy. We can’t wait to see how their hard work translates into new resources for the communities they serve.

Whether you’re new to grant writing or ready to refine your skills, we invite you to join us in 2026 and keep the momentum going.

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By Monika Kalra Varma, CEO, BoardSource and Jamie Allison, Executive Director, Walter & Elise Haas Fund

We are living in a time of profound change and complexity. Maintaining community safety nets, advancing justice, expanding opportunity, and centering and honoring the dignity of all is more urgent than it has been in recent history. Facing these realities, the world seems to be looking for heroes to save the day. Although cape-clad superheroes are not descending from the sky, if we look around us and within ourselves we can find our superheroes and unleash our collective superpowers to meet the moment. 

Nonprofit and philanthropic leaders have always been called to meet extraordinary challenges. Today’s leaders are serving growing needs with fewer or unpredictable resources, guiding teams and communities facing immense trauma, and developing innovative solutions to impossible challenges. They are acting with both courage and imagination, often under intense pressure and public scrutiny. The call to lead with purpose, courage, resilience, and creativity has never been louder and executive leaders are responding.  

By Rachel Sams, Lead Consultant and Editor, Nonprofit Risk Management Center

Have you ever sat through a boring board presentation about risk management—complete with endless slides, spreadsheets, and metrics—and thought, “There has to be a better way?” 

The good news: You’re right! 

But we can’t tell you exactly how to do it.  

We think that’s even better news! The beauty of risk management is that your nonprofit can and should customize anything and everything, including your board and committee risk presentations. While we can’t say exactly what will work for you, we can share some principles that will help you keep board risk presentations meaningful and manageable. That will give you more time to spend on the details of exactly what to include—or what we like to call “the fun stuff.” 

Know Your Audience and What They Need 

When it’s time to draft your briefing, ground yourself in an understanding of what the board’s risk management role is—and is not. 

Nonprofit staff teams have primary responsibility for risk identification, action planning, and keeping the board apprised of the team’s approach and progress addressing top risks.