Theme-Inspired Tools, Resources, & More (2025)
What tools, resources, materials, and/or practices are you using to meet this moment?
We asked, you answered. Here’s what many of you shared last year have been helpful to you in rooting together to meet this moment (our 2025 conference theme was Meeting the Moment – Rooted Together).
Meeting the Moment Playlist.
We asked during registration for your go-to song(s)/artist(s) for when you need to rise to the occasion of meeting a particular moment, and/or what music makes you feel “rooted together”. Here’s our growing Meeting the Moment playlist – a fantastic soundtrack for any moment you need to meet!
Books/Publications.
- Innovation for Social Change by Leah Kral
- The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- The Go-Giver by Bob Burg & John David Mann
- CliftonLarsonAllen CPA firm’s Free E-newsletters
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- On Managing a Downturn by Harvard Business Review
- Awake to Woke to Work Report by Equity in the Center
- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
Podcasts.
- Secrets to Success
- The Daily Beans
- Diary of a CEO
- Nonprofits are Messy
- Letters from an American
- Marketing Against the Grain
- Shine Podcast
- Going Concern
- Dare to Lead
- Tara Brach Podcast
Apps, Websites, & More.
- Calm App
- YouVersion App
- Insight Timer Meditation App
- Nothing Much Happens App (sleep)
- First This App (meditation)
- Life Kit App (learn something)
- Vibe Check App (current culture)
- Yoga by Adrienne on YouTube—https://www.youtube.com/@yogawithadrienne
- Vu Le’s Nonprofit AF—https://nonprofitaf.com/
- Hildy Gottlieb’s Creating the Future—https://creatingthefuture.org
- Bridgespan materials, specifically on dealing with uncertainty and scenario planning—https://www.bridgespan.org/
- PANO resources have been amazing—https://pano.org/
- ACLU’s breakdown of legislative attacks on LGBTQ Rights—https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2025
- Fundraising Effectiveness Project—www.fepreports.org
Personal Practices.
- Mindfulness/meditation
- Staying connected to colleagues on how to address the constant deluge of changes being thrust upon us
- Word of mouth/professional circles
- Music, prayer, reading, journaling, physical activity
You belong at the 2026 Collaborative Conference.
In 2025, we found each other. In 2026, we use what we built. You’re here not just to receive, but to act. Your story, perspective, and voice are what moves the sector forward. Join us at this year’s event – you and your voice belong here.