8:00

Registration

8:40

Welcome

• Navajo Blessing
  • Students of Saad K’idilyé early childhood and Diné language program

9:05

Breakfast Plenary:

• Building Tribally-Led Collaborative Capacity for Land Stewardship
  
  • New Mexico Tribal Fire & Forestry Working Group
  • Moderated by Lindsay Riggs, Coalitions & Collaboratives

10:20

Break

10:30

Morning Breakouts:

• Community Driven Leadership: Governance at the Crossroads
  • Patrick Salazar, Latinos LEAD
• The New Mexico Housing Crisis: The Urgent Need for a Unified Statewide Housing Coalition
  • Moderated by Natalie Florence, Thornburg Foundation
  • Carlos Gemora, Sites Southwest
  • Jenn Lopez, Project Moxie
  • Daniel Werwath, Housing Policy Practitioner
• Funding Collective Care in Times of Chaos**
  
  • Sarah Ghiorse & Carli Romero, 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
• Strengthening New Mexico’s Social Sector Through Capacity Building
  
  • Megan Elkins, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Marisa Magallanez, New Mexico Community Trust
  • Brad Robb, Carl C. Anderson Sr. & Marie Jo Anderson Foundation
  • Julie Smith, San Juan County Partnership and Accessing Public Funds Project Cohort Member
  • Gerald Weseen, New Mexico Gas

1:10

Break

1:20

Afternoon Breakouts 1:

• Compelling Storytelling for Good*
  
  • Dr. Shelly Gruening, R4 Creating
• Ready, Set, Fund! Assessing Readiness & Finding the Support You Need to Secure Federal Dollars*
  • Kim King, Jonathan Macias, Lauren McAllister, NM Department of Finance and Administration
• Focus on Federal Funding for a Funder's Frame of Reference**
  • Aly Sanchez & Laurel Meister Schmuck, 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
• Introducing New Mexico’s Local News Map**
  • Gwyneth Doland, UNM Dept of Communication & Journalism
  • Rashad Mahmood, NM Local News Foundation
  • Michael Marcotte, MVM Consulting

3:40

Break

3:50

Afternoon Plenary:

• On the Ground with New Mexico Immigration Orgs
  
  • Moderated by Aurora Areola, NM Immigrant Law Center
  • Leonardo Castanada, NM Office of New Americans
  • Deshawnda Chaparro, Contigo Justice
  • Fernanda Banda Coronado, NM Dream Team
  • Danielle Parker, United Voices for Newcomer Rights

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:

• What This Moment Demands of Us: A Conversation with Funders & Nonprofits
  
  • Britt Lake, Feedback Labs
  • Jill Dixon, The Food Depot
  • Henry Rael, McCune Charitable Foundation

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
• Better Together: Youth Services Coalition
  • Erin Hagenow, Junior Achievement New Mexico
  • Robert Aguirre, YMCA of Central New Mexico
  • Kristin Leigh, Explora
  • Robert Stokowy, Warehouse 505
  • Colby Wilson, Boys & Girls Club of Central New Mexico
• Statewide Funder Meeting**
  • Marisa Magallanez, Albuquerque Community Foundation
  • Annmarie McLaughlin, Santa Fe Community Foundation
  • Allan Oliver, Thornburg Foundation

2:25

Snack Break

2:35

Afternoon Breakouts 2:

• Indigenous Economies 101: Understanding Sovereignty, Systems, and Native Business Practices in New Mexico**
  • Elizabeth Gamboa & Henry Jake Foreman, 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 Impact

3:35

Break

3:45

Closing Plenary:

• 2nd Annual GNM Hot Ones: Legislative Update
  
  • Moderated by Allan Oliver, Thornburg Foundation
  • 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

• Shield Chief Drum Group