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| July 17, 2025
Our Collective Effervescence: Looking Back at a Moment for Connection
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This May in Philadelphia, Our Collective Effervescence: Community, Connection & Courage in Times of Change brought partners together to connect, reflect, and reassess our collective path forward. Featuring keynotes from national social impact leaders, cross-portfolio programming and common threads, and a celebration of Philadelphia cuisine, this year’s May event was designed to celebrate and reaffirm our community of changemakers.
We were pleased to learn from the following social impact leaders from within and beyond our community:
*Click on their names & orgs to find out more about them!
Featured SpringUp! that explored what ancestral intelligence can do for revitalizing and reshaping our communities.
Featured Springup! that provided an overview of Dr. Perry’s Black Power Scorecard, a new framework for reckoning with structural inequality and closing the racial power gap.
Presented Ripples, Waves, and Tides: Why Now Is the Time to Dream Big, an exploration of how visionary thinking combined with strategic adaptability can transform uncertainty into momentum.
Featured Poetic SpringUp! and ember grantee partner who opened with a reflection piece called A Moment of Courage.
Presented From Chaos to Clarity: Understanding the Immigration Policy Landscape in 2025, an accessible overview of the most significant changes and how they impact immigrants and nonprofit organizations.
Presented Leading Through Uncertainty: Aligning Values and Culture in a Shifting Landscape, a session looking at the quiet risks of silence, the power of aligned action, and what it takes to create safety when tensions rise.
Presented Human Resources: Valuing People & Culture, a discussion that navigated policy changes, effectively helping build an employee experience that goes beyond traditional HR.
Presented Digital Security Essentials: Creating a Strong Information Security Program, a session equipping organizational leaders with practical strategies to establish a robust information security program.
In Leadership Courage in Times of Uncertainty: A Partner-Led Conversation, these nonprofit leaders from the SPP ecosystem delved into practical approaches for stewarding a mission with clarity, fortifying organizational culture, and deepening support for communities and social impact work:
The convening provided an opportunity to hear from our partners in the moment – how they felt, what they needed, how they were leaning into leadership.
Hear some of our partners’ reflections:
“In this moment, I remain inspired, focused, and utterly undaunted. In my role as a leader in the midst of a war against all things unloving, my role is to love outrageously.”
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