Programs
Mission: Possible
Resilience, Connection, and Courage in Uncertain Times
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 8:00 am - 5 pm
Cintas Center
About the Conference:
Securing the Future is an annual conference dedicated to building the strategic, leadership, and resource development skills of the board, staff, and donors of the region’s nonprofits. This educational conference is designed to address the needs and concerns of board members and senior leadership. In addition to the keynote address, participants will have a chance to interact with peers and attend breakout sessions led by local speakers for a deeper dive into the keynote topic.
For the conference's 25th year, Securing the Future has been expanded to a full day, packed with even more breakout sessions and actionable content! Don't miss this annual conference dedicated to building the strategic, leadership, and resource development skills of the board, staff, and donors of the region’s nonprofits.
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Opening Session: Suzanne Smith, Social Impact Architects
Lunch Speaker: Patrice Borders, AmplifyEI
Embedding Succession Planning into Practice
From Crisis to Possibility: Reframing Uncertainty with Curiosity
Making Tech Work for Your Mission
Positive Leadership: How positivity Can Transform Leaders and Elevate Teams
Resetting Culture and Fundraising Through Connection
Stronger Together: Collaboration and Strategic Partnerships
The Confidence Catalyst: How to Hold the Room Without Holding the Mic
Turning Toward Hope: How Grief Builds Nonprofit Resilience
What Brave Fundraisers Know and Do
Who's Coming?
| 4C for Children | Girl Scouts of Western Ohio |
| Accelerate Great Schools | Give Like a Mother |
| Advanced Manufacturing Industry Partnership | |
| AFP of Greater Cincinnati | Hearing Speech & Deaf Center of Greater Cincinnati |
| Anne M. Maxfield LLC | |
| Arts & Humanities Consultants | Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Greater Cincinnati |
| Bahl & Gaynor | Ignite Philanthropy |
| Bethany House | Independence Alliance |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County | iSPACE, Inc. |
| Brighton Center, Inc. | Keep Cincinnati Beautiful |
| Building Value | Learning Grove |
| Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation | Lighthouse Youth & Family Services |
| Center For Respite Care | Mercy Neighborhood Ministries |
| Chatfield Edge | Movers & Makers |
| CHNK Behavioral Health | Per Scholas |
| Chronic Condition Care for You Inc. | Philanthropy Ohio |
| Cincinnati Computer Reuse | Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio |
| Cincinnati Preschool Promise | Public Allies Cincinnati |
| Cincinnati Works | RetireMed |
| Cincinnati Youth Collaborative | Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati |
| Clovernook Center | Samaritan Car Care Clinic |
| Combined, a Chubb Company | San Francisco Symphony |
| Cooperative for Education | Sandra Hughes Strategies, Ltd. |
| Cornerstone Renter Equity | Santa Maria Community Services |
| Crayons to Computers | Shelterhouse |
| Easterseals Redwood | Sidekick Services |
| EngageKY | Talbert House |
| Findlay Market | The Dragonfly Foundation |
| Found House IHN | |
| Freestore Foodbank | The Grail in the U.S. |
| Friends of Cinti College Prep Academy | The Healing Center |
| Friends of Music Hall | The Health Collaborative |
| From Fatherless to Fearless | The LIT Movement |
| Generation NOW | Tikkun Farm |
| UpSpring | |
| Welcome House | |
| Wesley Chapel Mission Center |
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Conference Sponsorship:
Your business or foundation's sponsorship gives you visibility before, during, and after the conference to a broad cross-section of nonprofit leaders. Plus, it helps keep the ticket cost accessible to more nonprofits!
Past Keynote Speakers:
2024: Kishshana Palmer
2023: Vu Le
2022: Pearl Alexander
2021: Vanessa Mason
2020: Barry Posner
2019: Alton Fitzgerald White
2018: Bob Johansen
2017: Vu Le
2016: Amanda Maria Navarro
2015: Jason Saul
2014: Paul Alofs; Nell Edgington
2013: Randall Moss; Amy Sample Ward
2012: Dan Pallotta
2011: Paul Carttar/Rosetta Thurman
2010: Peter Goldberg; David Kuehler; Rich Boehne
2009: Bob Johansen; Jan Masaoka
2008: Ruby Payne; Carol Weisman
2007: Paul Light; William Butler
2006: Jerr Boschee; James Votruba
2005: Elizabeth Beresford; Peter Block
2004: Bernard Ross; Claire Gaudiani
2003: Norma Hotaling; Peter Benson
2002: Doug Hall; Kathy Merchant
2001: Francis Hesselbein