Shared Learnings
| February 4, 2025
A Look Back at 2024
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Below you’ll find an overview of last year’s Spring Point Partners Learning Series, from which we have gathered and nurtured themes and tools from within and beyond our community.
We hope you will join us as our learning journey continues throughout 2025. Now more than ever, we hold tightly the insights from past transformational movements and amplify the voices of today’s changemakers—a crucial element in the narrative change required for progress.
Inspired by our core value of people first, we prioritized cross-sector learnings related to investing in human infrastructure. Monthly virtual sessions brought together as leadership and wellbeing, transformational transitions, and impact evaluation.
Click through to find recordings and takeaways:
Connection is crucial now more than ever. In 2024, we prioritized intimate themed gatherings at The Hive to foster in-person connection, shared learning, and cross-sector engagement.
We held specific themed gatherings, such as:
We continued our monthly webinar series, New Perspectives: Human-Animal Connection and Advocacy, designed to strengthen our collaborative efforts to end puppy mills and other forms of animal cruelty.
These conversations highlighted connections between animal welfare and other advocacy movements, welcoming dialogue from audiences well outside of the Life of Riley portfolio.
Learn more about our speakers by clicking through below:
🐶 Dr. Azalia Boyd, Alina M. Luna, Ph.D., Dr. Raye Taylor & James Evans, Companions and Animals for Reform & Equity
🐶 Natalie Ahwesh, Shannon Dickerson & Dr. Darrell Payne, Humane Action Pittsburgh
🐶 Akisha Townsend Eaton & Aline Silva, Companions and Animals for Reform & Equity
🐶 Tim Freeman, Braveheart Pets Inc.
🐶 Mindi Callison & Alexis Bell, Bailing out Benji
🐶 Hanna Lentz, Supporting People and Animal Relationships for Change
🐶 Dr. Candace Croney, Purdue University
We were privileged to welcome emerging and established thought leaders to The Hive to anchor conversations in our learning themes and to amplify those messages more broadly.
We integrated questions both from those in the room and from a virtual audience on Zoom:
We launched Our WellSpring, the Spring Point Partners podcast, featuring remarkable leaders who are shifting narratives in their field and in the world.
Season 1 explored leadership origin stories to shed light on the source of something beautiful – human-centered leadership. Subject matter and ecosystem experts share powerful personal leadership learning statements in each episode.
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