Session 6: Women of Color and Non-Binary Leaders in Philanthropy: Building Meaningful Relationships Across Power and Position

About the Program

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As part of our 2025 “Different Voices, Shared Journey: leadership without easy answers” theme, this session explores how relationships are foundational to our success. Building relationships across power and position requires navigating an often unspoken curriculum. In this session, we’re making space to learn from each other and together create the conditions to discover:

• How to map your current relationship portfolio’s strengths and gaps.
• Strategies for building relationships up, down, and across organizational life.
• Ways to nurture connections that energize rather than deplete.
• Lessons from leaders on the specific roles peers, senior leaders, and mentors play in our advancement.
• Approaches for cultivating high-quality connections marked by mutual energy, engagement, and learning.

Optional Pre-Reads

• Your Invisible Network: How to Create, Maintain, and Leverage the Relationships That Will Transform Your Career by Michael Urtuzuástegui Melcher
• Energize Your Workplace: How to Create and Sustain High-Quality Connections at Work by Jane E. Dutton 
• How Women of Color Get to Senior Management - Harvard Business Review article by Cindy Pace 

Program Flow

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Questions or Accessibility Needs?

Please contact Awale (Wally) Osman at [email protected] with any questions about the program or registration process.

Please update your online MCF profile with any dietary restrictions or notify Khin Oo at [email protected]. We will attempt to accommodate all requests made at least one week prior to the event. The exact location of this will be emailed to those who register.