2026 Schedule

Tentative session titles and presenters are included below. Each breakout time will include at least one session following our four conference topics: Funding, Leadership, Marketing, and General. More details will be released to attendees via the conference app/website in early May.

May 19, 2026

8:00-8:45 Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15 Welcome

9:15-10:30 Featured Speaker: Lisa Gerber

  • The Power of Strategic Storytelling: Communicate to Connect

10:45-12:00 Breakout Session A

  • Funding: Digital Fundraising That Works (Matt Lane, Mike Stafford, and Jolene Daugherty, Central PA Food Bank)

  • Leadership: Using Your Board to Develop Organizational Strategy (Harry Mathias, Consultant and Community Giving Foundation Board Chair)

  • Marketing: Lead with Story (Lisa Gerber)

  • General: Beyond the Books: Leveraging QuickBooks Online to Scale Your Nonprofit’s Impact (Danny Shingara, Growing Solutions)

  • General: The Privilege and the Pain: How Helping Others Can Break You Open and Build You Back Stronger (Sam Faulkner, CSIU)

12:15-1:30 Lunch & Networking by Mission

1:30-2:45 Breakout Session B

  • Funding: Stick Figure Planned Giving: A Practical Guide for Executive Directors and Reluctant Fundraisers (Greg Wilson, Stick Figure Fundraising)

  • Leadership: Stronger Together: Navigating Nonprofit Partnerships & Mergers (Brant Duda, Strategy Design Partners)

  • Marketing: The Power of Social Media (Chad Lauer, Lauer Media Company)

  • General: Nonprofits: Leveraging AI to Do More with Less (Daren Coudriet, Nittany AI Alliance)

  • General: Building a Culture Where People Want to Work (Beck More, Community Action Association of PA)

3:00-4:15 Breakout Session C

  • Funding: 5 Steps for Meaningful & Manageable Outcome Measurement Efforts (Laurel Molloy, Innovations Quantified)

  • Leadership: Impressionistic Leadership (Davie Jane Gilmour, DJG Opportunities and FCFP Board Chair)

  • Marketing: Communication Roundtable: Sharing Tools & Best Practices (facilitated by Community Giving Foundation)

  • General: Volunteer Management: From Transactional Support to Strategic Asset (Shila Ulrich, Central PA Food Bank)

  • General: Nonprofits: Leveraging AI to Do More with Less (Daren Coudriet, Nittany AI Alliance)

4:30-6:00 Networking Reception on the Patio

May 20, 2026

8:00-8:45 Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:15 Breakout Session D

  • Funding: Recalibrate Your Events to Fuel Year-Round Fundraising (Chad Barger, Productive Fundraising)

  • Funding: Winning Public Funding: A Strategic Playbook for Nonprofits (Christian Muniz and Rebecca Burke, Delta Development Group)

  • Leadership: “Love Reality” Thinking (Mark Burke, MYNDDSET)

  • Marketing: Proving Marketing Impact: A Practical Measurement System for Mission Driven Leaders (John Grabusky, Geisinger)

  • General: Session TBC

10:30-11:45 Breakout Session E

  • Funding: Cutting Through the Noise: What’s Working Now to Spur Donor Engagement (Chad Barger, Productive Fundraising)

  • Funding: Making New Friends (Who Fund Your Mission) (Dani Beam, Beam Consulting)

  • Leadership: Change Management and Transformational Leadership (Ashley Zynn, WellSpan)

  • Marketing: Proving Marketing Impact: A Practical Measurement System for Mission Driven Leaders (John Grabusky, Geisinger)

  • General: Current Hot Topics and Risks in Information Technology (Jeremy Burris, Snodgrass)

12:00-1:15 Lunch & Networking by Position/Role

1:30-2:45 “Engaging Your Partners” Panel

  • Panel TBC, Moderated by Chip Edmonds (Lycoming College)

3:00-4:15 Featured Speaker: Nathan Chappell, Virtuous

  • Curiosity Code: Building a Culture of Curiosity to Thrive in the AI Era

4:15-4:30 Closing & Networking