Breakout Sessions.
SESSION 1 | WEDNESDAY | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
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with JODY DILDAY
Most nonprofits are sitting on untapped future gifts—because they haven’t asked. This practical, workshop demystifies planned giving and shows how to turn donor intent into meaningful legacy commitments. Participants will learn how to identify the right prospects, start natural and mission-centered conversations, and confidently introduce simple giving options like bequests and beneficiary designations.
Grounded in real-world fundraising, this session emphasizes that planned giving isn’t about complexity—it’s about relationships, values, and long-term impact. Attendees will walk away with clear, actionable steps they can implement immediately to build a sustainable pipeline of future support and deepen donor engagement.
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with LISA CHAMBERS
This session equips leaders with a simple, powerful framework to structure their message and use storytelling to drive decisions. Grounded in research and real-world executive practice, participants will learn how to communicate with precision, connect logic to emotion, and move people to action.
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with KENT & BECKY SHAFFER
Where do you even begin when starting a nonprofit or ministry? Becky Shaffer, Founder and Executive Director of Saving Grace, will share practical insight, foundational steps, lessons learned, and encouragement for those looking to take the first step toward building something meaningful. Whether your idea is still a dream or just beginning to take shape, this session is designed to help you navigate “the basics” with clarity and confidence.
SESSION 2 | WEDNESDAY | 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
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with JODY DILDAY
What if one gift could support your mission—not just today, but every year into the future? This practical, confidence-building workshop on endowment building shows nonprofit leaders how to turn long-term vision into a sustainable funding strategy.
Participants will gain a clear understanding of how endowment works, why it matters in today’s funding environment, and how to position it as a powerful complement to annual and campaign giving. The session focuses on real world tactics: how to make the case, integrate endowment into donor conversations, and offer approachable options that resonate with both current and legacy donors.
With an emphasis on simplicity, stewardship, and impact, attendees will leave with actionable tools to start or grow an endowment, engage their board, and build a lasting source of financial stability. Because endowment isn’t about having more—it’s about making your mission endure.
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with LISA CHAMBERS
This session equips leaders with a simple, powerful framework to structure their message and use storytelling to drive decisions. Grounded in research and real-world executive practice, participants will learn how to communicate with precision, connect logic to emotion, and move people to action.
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with BRAD EDWARDS, NIKKI RADER, STEVE ONNEN
This panel discussion will look at the importance of utilizing the power of legacy to help motivate donors to engage and partner with your organization.
SESSION 3 | WEDNESDAY | 2:35 PM - 3:50 PM
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with FAITH INGRAHAM
Stewardship isn’t just about money or church, or nonprofit work—it’s about how we manage everything God has entrusted to us: our time, energy, relationships, opportunities, and choices.
So how do we do that? Come find out how to implement some everyday practices to make your day the BEST DAY EVER during this fun and interactive breakout session with our Saving Grace NWA Program Coach, Faith Ingraham!
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with KENT & BECKY SHAFFER
Where do you even begin when starting a nonprofit or ministry? Becky Shaffer, Founder and Executive Director of Saving Grace, will share practical insight, foundational steps, lessons learned, and encouragement for those looking to take the first step toward building something meaningful. Whether your idea is still a dream or just beginning to take shape, this session is designed to help you navigate “the basics” with clarity and confidence.
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with BRAD EDWARDS, NIKKI RADER, STEVE ONNEN
This panel discussion will look at the importance of utilizing the power of legacy to help motivate donors to engage and partner with your organization.
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with WENDI SNIDER-SEIDEL
Creating a meaningful program requires more than good intentions—it takes vision, structure, and practical strategies that empower participants not only to participate but to truly engage with it. In this interactive session, attendees will learn the essential components of developing, implementing, and sustaining a successful program.
Participants will explore proven approaches for curriculum design, community engagement, participant motivation, and outcome measurement while gaining practical tools they can immediately apply within their own organizations. This session will also highlight real-world successes, common challenges, and innovative solutions for building programs that foster independence, confidence, and long-term personal growth.
Whether you are starting from scratch or looking to strengthen an existing initiative, this session will provide actionable insights to help you create a program that truly makes a difference.
SESSION 4 | THURSDAY | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
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with STEPHANIE RIFFLE
A nonprofit’s impact starts with the strength of its board. This breakout session explores practical, proven strategies for recruiting the right board members and setting them up for long-term success. Participants will learn how to identify skill gaps, attract mission-aligned candidates, and create a sustainable pipeline for leadership. The session also covers onboarding, engagement, and continuous development practices that keep board members informed, motivated, and effective. Whether you’re forming a new board or strengthening an existing one, you’ll leave with actionable tools to build a more strategic, high-performing, motivated governance team.
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with NICHOLE HAMILTON
Your brand is the face of your organization. It’s often the first impression you make and a key factor in whether someone chooses to engage, give, or get involved. It’s not just about visuals, it’s about clearly communicating your mission, building trust, and creating a consistent experience across every touchpoint.
In this session, we’ll break down the core elements of a clear, compelling brand identity and show you how to apply a few practical principles to strengthen your message, connect with your audience, and amplify your impact.
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with DAVID LANGE
IWith donors you work through the why, what then? 10-15% of donor's assets sit in cash.
Many donors don’t give from cash—they give from where their assets sit.
The real questions are:
Where are the assets our donors want to give to our cause?
Are we ready to navigate conversations around stock gifts, donor-advised funds, legacy gifts, and appreciated assets?
When donors intend to give, does it make it to us—or get lost along the way?
When donor intent is high, let's not fumble the bag. Without clarity and capability, we’re often the bottleneck.
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with ANNASTAZIA BAKER
1 hour interactive session designed specifically for staff working in client-facing non-profit environments who are navigating high emotional demand, limited resources, and ongoing questions around boundaries, dignity, and effective support.
The workshop will focus on providing practical, real-world tools to help participates:
Make clearer decisions in complex client situations
Distinguish between supportive help and unintended enabling
Strengthen dignity-centered service delivery
Develop healthy and sustainable boundaries
Manage emotional fatigue in high-intensity environments
SESSION 5 | THURSDAY | 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
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with JIM EVANS
If “stewardship” is the thing you remember right after a donor disappears… this session is for you.
We’ll take an honest look at your current donor follow‑up habits (no judgment… we're all friends here), fix what’s broken, and build a donor‑care rhythm that doesn’t require a full development staff or an act of God.
And yes — we’ll connect the dots. Stewardship isn’t just “being nice” after a gift; it’s the part of Moves Management that keeps donors engaged between asks, builds trust over time, and makes future conversations a whole lot less awkward.
Bring your real process (or the napkin version of it).
We’ll select as many as we can, workshop it, simplify it, upgrade it, and send you out with a stewardship plan you can actually stick to — even on your busiest week.
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with NICHOLE HAMILTON
Your brand is the face of your organization. It’s often the first impression you make and a key factor in whether someone chooses to engage, give, or get involved. It’s not just about visuals, it’s about clearly communicating your mission, building trust, and creating a consistent experience across every touchpoint.
In this session, we’ll break down the core elements of a clear, compelling brand identity and show you how to apply a few practical principles to strengthen your message, connect with your audience, and amplify your impact.
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with WENDI SNIDER-SEIDEL
Creating a meaningful program requires more than good intentions—it takes vision, structure, and practical strategies that empower participants not only to participate but to truly engage with it. In this interactive session, attendees will learn the essential components of developing, implementing, and sustaining a successful program.
Participants will explore proven approaches for curriculum design, community engagement, participant motivation, and outcome measurement while gaining practical tools they can immediately apply within their own organizations. This session will also highlight real-world successes, common challenges, and innovative solutions for building programs that foster independence, confidence, and long-term personal growth.
Whether you are starting from scratch or looking to strengthen an existing initiative, this session will provide actionable insights to help you create a program that truly makes a difference.
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with ANNASTAZIA BAKER
1 hour interactive session designed specifically for staff working in client-facing non-profit environments who are navigating high emotional demand, limited resources, and ongoing questions around boundaries, dignity, and effective support.
The workshop will focus on providing practical, real-world tools to help participates:
Make clearer decisions in complex client situations
Distinguish between supportive help and unintended enabling
Strengthen dignity-centered service delivery
Develop healthy and sustainable boundaries
Manage emotional fatigue in high-intensity environments
SESSION 6 | FRIDAY | 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
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with TERESA DUNLAP
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with LEX CUNINGHAM & DAVE ELLSEY
FThis interactive lab session invites you to step back from the day-to-day and look at one of your key programs through a fresh lens. Using human-centered design tools, you'll build practical skills to better understand the people you serve and strengthen your programs to see the whole person and serve the whole need.
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with KERRY CASTILLO
Momentum is not merely movement—it is purposeful progress.
In mission-driven organizations, momentum grows when leaders create clarity, empower ownership, strengthen accountability, and intentionally shape culture.
Participants will take part in an engaging and interactive simulation while also "unpacking" the practical COMMAND leadership framework. Our leaders will experience how competing priorities, limited resources, and leadership tension can either stall momentum or sharpen mission. This session will challenge leaders to lead boldly, steward people faithfully, and create cultures where both mission and people thrive. Leaders will leave with practical leadership and culture building strategies that can immediately be implemented into their organizations and work to build the momentum necessary to further impact lives.
If your mission is sacred work, your purpose worth protecting, your people entrusted to you, and your culture worth fighting for -- join Kerry Castillo of Play Beautiful, veteran coach, leadership strategist, culture architect, and performance specialist, for a dynamic session focused on building stronger cultures, empowering teams, and leading with both excellence and a heart for the Lord.
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with DIANNA LYON - WAGNER
SESSION 7 | FRIDAY | 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
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with TERESA DUNLAP
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with LEX CUNINGHAM & DAVE ELLSEY
FThis interactive lab session invites you to step back from the day-to-day and look at one of your key programs through a fresh lens. Using human-centered design tools, you'll build practical skills to better understand the people you serve and strengthen your programs to see the whole person and serve the whole need.
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with FAITH INGRAHAM
Stewardship isn’t just about money or church, or nonprofit work—it’s about how we manage everything God has entrusted to us: our time, energy, relationships, opportunities, and choices.
So how do we do that? Come find out how to implement some everyday practices to make your day the BEST DAY EVER during this fun and interactive breakout session with our Program Coach, Faith Ingraham!
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with DIANNA LYON - WAGNER
Keynote Sessions.
KEYNOTE SESSION 1 | WEDNESDAY | 9:30 AM
Team Work Makes the Dream Work: Casting Vision to Spark Momentum
with Kent & Becky Shaffer
A compelling vision transforms routine work into a shared, life-changing mission. This opening session is designed for all nonprofit stakeholders ready to ignite momentum to drive lasting impact and generational change in their communities. Drawing on the foundational truths that "where there is no vision, the people perish," and “where there is no community there is no ministry.
Learn how to break through fear and inaction, transforming passive alignment into passionate momentum. You will be challenged to dream big through bold faith and motivated to create actionable items to move your organization toward a God size vision.
KEYNOTE SESSION 2 | THURSDAY | 9:15 AM
4 Shifts that Unlock Nonprofit Growth
with Jesse Lane
Most nonprofit leaders believe their biggest obstacle is funding. But the organizations that grow sustainably share something else entirely: four counterintuitive mindset shifts that transform how they lead, collaborate, and execute. In this workshop, you'll discover what's quietly holding your organization back and walk away with the fundraising, marketing, and leadership tools to find breakthrough growth.
KEYNOTE SESSION 3 | THURSDAY | 2:30 PM
Clarity Before Momentum: Defining Mission, Vision, and Values That Sustain Impact
with Erik Dees
Many nonprofits begin with deep passion but unclear foundations. True momentum begins with clarity. In this keynote, Erik Dees will explore how clearly defined mission, vision, and values shape culture, guide decision-making, and protect long-term sustainability. Leaders will gain practical insight into how everyday behaviors either reinforce or erode the foundation of their organization.
KEYNOTE SESSION 4 | FRIDAY | 9:15 AM
4 Shifts that Unlock Nonprofit Growth
with Susan Goss
Have you ever wondered why your life feels out of control? For many, it is the result of trying to control situations and/or people that are out of their control. Join us as we learn what God says about releasing our burdens, situations, and people to Him, because we were never designed to carry His load.