8:00

Registration

8:40

Welcome

• Navajo Blessing

9:05

Breakfast Plenary:

• Building Tribally-Led Collaborative Capacity for Land Stewardship
  
  • Lindsay Riggs, Coalitions & Collaboratives, with Panelists

10:20

Break

10:30

Morning Breakouts:

• Grace, Grit, and Grant Reports: Grounding Black Leadership in the NM Narrative*
  
  • Cathryn McGill, New Mexico Black Leadership Council
• Compelling Storytelling for Good*
  
  • Dr. Shelly Gruening, R4 Creating
• Funding Collective Care in Times of Chaos**
  
  • Sarah Ghiorse, New Mexico Women.Org

11:30

Break

11:40

Lunch Plenary:

• Dance Performance
  
  • National Institute of Flamenco
• Groundworks New Mexico Membership Meeting & Updates
  
  • Groundworks Staff
• Capacity Building for New Mexico
  
  • Panelists TBD

1:10

Break

1:20

Afternoon Breakouts 1:

• Story as Strategy: Critical Autoethnography for Social Impact
  • Denise Zubizarreta, New Mexico Local News Fund
• Ready, Set, Fund! Assessing Readiness & Finding the Support You Need to Secure Federal Dollars*
  • Kim King & Panelists, NM Department of Finance and Administration
• Focus on Federal Funding**
  • The Grant Plant

2:20

Extended Networking / Snack Break

2:40

Afternoon Breakouts 2:

• Data Storytelling
  • Dr. Sara Ann Mason, Los Alamos National Labs*
• Logic Models: Program Design Workshop
  • Megan Elkins, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Mapping News Equity in NM: Results from the 2025 Mapping Local News Ecosystem Report**
  • Rashad Mahmood, NM Local News Foundation; Panelists TBD

3:40

Break

3:50

Afternoon Plenary:

• On the Ground with NM Immigration Orgs
  
  • Panelists TBD

4:50

Reception

• Hosted by the Association of Fundraising Professionals New Mexico Chapter
• Music by Robb Janov, Rock & Rhythm Foundation

8:30

Welcome Back

• Special musical performance

8:45

Breakfast Plenary:

• Embracing Joy
  • Vu Le, Nonprofit AF, and Kristi Dorr, Groundworks

10:15

Break & Book Signing

10:45

Plenary:

• A Conversation with Funders & Nonprofits
  
  • Britt Lake, Feedback Labs, with Panelists

11:45

Break

11:55

Lunch

• Guided Table Conversations
• Responsive Movement Break
  
  • Shira Greenberg, Keshet Dance Company & Center for the Arts

1:15

Break

1:25

Afternoon Breakouts 1:

• Scenario Planning for Nonprofit Leaders: Building Resilience & Sustaining Impact*
  • Ben Hays & Miranda Jijana, Your Part-Time Controller
• Youth Services Coalition: Better Together
  • Erin Hagenow, Junior Achievement New Mexico
• Funders Panel: Land, Agriculture, and Water**
  • Sarayl Shunkamolah, First Nations Development Institute; Panelists TBD

2:25

Snack Break

2:35

Afternoon Breakouts 2:

• Indigenous Economies 101: Understanding Sovereignty, Systems, and Native Business Practices in NM**
  • Elizabeth Gamboa, New Mexico Community Capital
• Moral Injury in Purpose-Driven Work
  • Perry Radford, Rad Consulting; Ellen Whitlock Baker
• Leading with Guts & Grace: Emotional Intelligence for an Uncertain World
  • Linley Daly, Daly Consulting

3:35

Break

3:45

Closing Plenary:

• Legislative Update Panel
  
  • Panelists Amanda Aragon, New Mexico Kids CAN; Allison Freedman, New Mexico Center for Housing Law; Mason Graham, Common Cause New Mexico; Jason Riggs, Roadrunner Food Bank

4:45

Closing Performance

• Southern Shield Drum Group