
Preliminary Agenda
Here's how we'll spend our time together.
Day one centers on immersive learning and hands-on community engagement. Day two gives you time to connect that experience to your work and begin applying what you've learned, using practical tools, including AI, along the way. Agenda details are yet to be finalized, and final sessions will be shaped by this year's participants.
Day One
September 15, 2027 · Immersive learning & hands-on community engagement. We'll get to know one another and explore what meaningful participation asks of us.
Morning
Welcome and community building
Meet the people you'll learn with and compare the questions you're bringing.
Late morning
Program design and transformative volunteering
Explore real volunteering-program challenges and practice using AI to examine assumptions, identify opportunities for meaningful engagement, and consider approaches alongside peers.
Afternoon
Immersive community learning
Our Baltimore community experience invites reflection on service, power, and community knowledge, and on how partnership can honor community voice and shared authority. Community partner to be announced.
Evening
Connection, hospitality, and celebration
Room for conversation, shared reflections, and a little enjoyment of Baltimore.
Day Two
September 16, 2027 · Implementation & action-planning. You'll have room to try approaches and begin working out how they could fit your organization.
Morning
Reflection and new perspectives
Compare what you noticed yesterday and how it might change your program decisions.
Midmorning
Community partnerships and practical program work
Guided practice includes AI-supported program review, champion communications, or a first draft of a nonprofit capacity-building resource. Work will start with the needs and perspectives of the people it is meant to support.
Midday
Peer-led problem solving
Work in small groups on real CSR scenarios, experimenting with AI-supported approaches and learning from one another's attempts. Possible topics include qualitative feedback, employee engagement, and making a stronger business case.
Afternoon
From learning to application
Begin a practical approach, resource, or implementation plan informed by what you've tried. A 30-day planning exercise helps you leave with useful work underway and clear next steps.
Closing
Commitments and community
Share what you've tried, the questions you're still holding, and what you intend to do next. Make time to stay connected with peers you'd like to keep learning alongside.
We'd love to have you with us.
Bring the questions you've been meaning to work through.
