Monday, September 14
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Breakout Block 1
The workforce is changing rapidly, driven by AI, evolving employee expectations, and growing community needs. As priorities shift, corporate social impact leaders must make strategic choices that align with business goals while delivering meaningful community impact.
Join Laura Turner as she shares how TIAA transformed its community impact strategy by focusing on one high-impact mission: helping first-generation college students succeed and graduate. Learn how this strategic shift strengthened workforce development, increased employee engagement, and created measurable value for both the business and the communities it serves.
Through real-world examples, attendees will explore how TIAA aligned philanthropy, volunteering, and cross-functional partnerships around a shared purpose. You’ll leave with practical strategies for prioritizing investments, mobilizing employees as ambassadors, measuring outcomes, and building a focused, scalable social impact strategy that advances both enterprise and community goals.
Speaker:
- Laura Turner, TIAA
Impact reporting is most meaningful when it begins long before a report is ever written. This highly interactive workshop invites participants to actively work through their own reporting challenges alongside peers and facilitators while learning a practical, scalable approach to gathering insight and translating it into meaningful impact communication.
Throughout the session, participants will follow the real-world story and evolving framework of the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) and the Grandview School District partnership as a guiding case study. Using this example, facilitators will walk attendees through how a small corporate responsibility team moved from fragmented storytelling and inconsistent data collection toward a more intentional, measurable, and stakeholder-centered impact reporting approach.
Speakers:
- Amanda Hill, The Kansas City National Security Campus
- Anne Einig, The Kansas City National Security Campus
As employee expectations evolve, CSR leaders are moving beyond one‑off volunteering and traditional giving programs to build meaningful, inclusive, and scalable employee engagement strategies across regions, cultures, and business units. This panel brings together corporate leaders navigating real‑world questions—what works, what doesn’t, and what’s evolving. Explore with peers how companies balance global scale with local relevance, elevate employee voice and ownership in grantmaking strategies, and address equity across HQ and non‑HQ staff. Panelists will also share what’s innovative in aligning programs with changing workforce expectations.
Speakers:
- Sheena Agarwal, Myriad USA
- Midori Morikawa, State Street Corporation
As nonprofit demand grows and resources remain stretched, CSR teams are being asked to do more with less. In this interactive workshop, learn how the Sundt Foundation partnered with its internal AI team to transform a grant review process handling more than 700 applications per cycle—reducing review time from weeks to minutes while maintaining transparency, consistency, and human oversight.
Through a real-world case study and guided peer discussion, attendees will explore how to identify processes that may benefit from AI, build cross-functional partnerships, establish responsible-use guardrails, and navigate organizational adoption. Participants will leave with practical tools, lessons learned, and a framework for evaluating AI opportunities within their own programs.
Whether you’re just beginning your AI journey or looking to scale existing efforts, this session will help you move from curiosity to action.
Speaker:
- Emily Dwosh, Sundt Construction
Breakout Block 2
Skills-based volunteering (SBV) is evolving; this session highlights how companies can move beyond transactional models to create programs that build employee capability and strengthen nonprofit resilience in an era defined by AI and digital transformation. Featuring insights from Cadence senior leader Nicole Johnson and drawing on Team4Tech’s decade of nonprofit digital capacity-building, the session explores a tech-forward, human-centered approach to SBV that develops leadership, global mindset, and problem‑solving skills while advancing digital inclusion and nonprofit readiness.
Participants will learn how Cadence leverages SBV to reinforce its “One Team” culture, deepen empathy across geographies, and connect employees to meaningful social impact. Together, Cadence and Team4Tech offer a fresh lens on how SBV can catalyze learning, culture-building, and innovation—unlocking long-term value for both companies and nonprofits.
Speaker:
- Julie Clugage, Team4Tech
- Nicole Johnson, Cadence Designs
Ambassador programs unlock reach – but only if the role is clear, supported, and recognized. We’ll cover the ambassador journey from recruiting and onboarding to storytelling and recognition centered on equity and accessibility (e.g., remote roles, frontline schedules, neurodiverse contributors). Jewell and Jackie will combine real‑world lessons with cross‑industry patterns to show what actually sticks. Expect practical takeaways you can put into motion right away, from role clarity and recognition to a lightweight monthly rhythm.
Speakers:
- Jewell Willett, YourCause + Blackbaud
- Jacquelyn Hood, Crowe
The data is clear: corporate purpose is under pressure, and leaders are making hard calls with real consequences. Benevity Chief Impact Officer and Head of Benevity Impact Labs, Sona Khosla, presents the numbers behind the trends from this year’s State of Corporate Purpose report–the ones hitting organizations hardest right now. She then moves those findings from the page into a live conversation with ACCP member executives navigating them firsthand. Hear how the data is playing out in their organizations including the tensions, trade-offs and decisions that have no clean answer. The session closes with Benevity CEO Soraya Alexander joining Sona to tackle the questions most leaders are still figuring out.
Speakers:
- Sona Khosla, Benevity
- Soraya Alexander, Benevity
With limited financial resources and staff capacity at Foundations and grant partners, it’s important to find ways to leverage both. This session will explore how two foundations came together to co-create peer learning and capacity building initiatives that address organizational needs for their grantees while building connections across the ecosystem. Funders with place-based strategies and those pursuing trust-based philanthropy and equitable funding practices may find value in exploring how co-creation between funders and with grantees can advance goals more effectively. The session will be lead by staff from MassMutual Foundation and Point32Health Foundation, organizations that share common geography and pursue related funding goals. We will share our story and lead participants through activities to help them consider how to act more collaboratively in their own contexts.
Speakers:
- Beth Chandler, Point32Health Foundation
- Caitlin Sullivan, Point32Health Foundation
- Michael Williams, Point32Health Foundation
- Lucas Orwig, Mass Mutual
Breakout Block 3
Volunteer programs can do more than give back—they can strengthen culture, develop leaders, and improve employee engagement and retention. Join leaders from UNFCU to explore how the global financial cooperative has embedded volunteerism into its employee experience, creating a stronger sense of belonging, purpose, and connection across teams spanning more than 200 countries and territories. Through real-world examples, attendees will learn how UNFCU built scalable volunteer pathways, aligned community impact with talent and inclusion strategies, and equipped employees to lead through skills-based service, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. Interactive activities, including live polling, peer discussion, and purpose-mapping exercises, will help participants identify opportunities within their own organizations. Attendees will leave with practical frameworks, measurement approaches, and implementation tools to design volunteer programs that advance business priorities while creating meaningful community impact.
Speaker:
- Carlene Alexander, United Nations Federal Credit Union
- Tara-Lee Peart, United Nations Federal Credit Union
How can companies turn employee passion, brand love, and community engagement into meaningful social impact? This workshop explores how Hasbro brings together volunteerism, in-kind giving, employee ambassadors, and fan fundraising to create joy and community through the power of play. Using examples such as the Team Hasbro volunteer program, Global Day of Joy, and fan-driven campaigns tied to Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, participants will learn how to design engagement opportunities that feel authentic and meaningful to employees and communities. The session will highlight practical ways to leverage company assets, including products, brands, creative talent, employee expertise, and passionate fan communities, to strengthen nonprofit partnerships and sustain participation. Attendees will leave with tools to identify internal champions, align social impact with employee engagement, and build purpose-driven programs that reflect what makes their business unique.
Speakers:
- Shelly Mazzanoble, Hasbro, Inc.
In today’s complex community landscape, the most powerful tool CSR professionals have may be their ability to listen. This session explores Listening to Understand—a practical tool that shows how intentional listening can strengthen relationships, uncover real needs, and elevate impact.
Participants will discover how combining deep listening practices with the Leadership Explorer for the Nonprofit Sector (LENS) creates meaningful opportunities to work across boundaries and co-create solutions with nonprofit partners. Through a case study with United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, we’ll share how a coalition of funders used LENS insights—grounded entirely in nonprofit feedback—to design a leadership development program shaped by the voices of the community itself.
Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to use listening as a catalyst for trust, alignment, and measurable impact—transforming not only their grantmaking approach, but the communities they serve.
Speaker:
- Michael Clinton, Center for Creative Leadership
Speakers:
- Leleah James, Related Affordable
- Gabe Cohen, True Impact
- Laura Andes, Charity Navigator
- Andrew Troup, Blackbaud