By CCF
The Family Reunion is a movement-building moment, not just an event. We hope that the outcomes of the moment go well beyond the day in San Diego.
The Community-Centric Fundraising (CCF) Family Reunion is just week and five days away! Have you gotten your tickets yet?
The bottom two price tags (financially strained and financially coping) ticket sales close on Wednesday, April 15 at 5 pm Mountain time! This is because, as you probably know, last minute changes cost more. But we still want you to come if your schedule clears up and you now can, or somehow you’re just hearing about the event! So, we will leave ticket sales open until the last second or until we are at capacity.
The Family Reunion is a movement-building moment, not just an event. We hope that the outcomes of the moment go well beyond the day in San Diego. We hope you will leave complete with ongoing relationships and collaborations, new projects and synergies, connected with and plugged into your local chapters, the Content Hub, and Mighty Networks, and the conference as a living example of CCF values in action.
Abundance over scarcity:
To do this, we’ve invested in the idea that everyone deserves nice things — abundance over scarcity.
As with CCF as a whole, this gathering is meant to center people who have been historically excluded from philanthropy spaces. This is evident in our speaker line up, and will be true for our attendees — provided our attendees from privileged groups act accordingly, so please honor this wish.
Speaking of our speaker line up, the final-ish schedule is here! (We say final-ish because we all know, things happen and things change. And we’re going to lean into that abundance as well.)
As a reminder, here is a list of the session descriptions and the speaker bios. Which sessions are you most excited about and definitely going to attend?
Everyone deserves nice things:
Leaning into the “everyone deserves nice things” philosophy and abundance mindset, we’ve also chosen to support small, local, values-aligned businesses throughout our planning process to move resources into the local San Diego community. And we’ve decided that care, beauty, and ease are political choices, and ones that we wanted to make.
This is why we’ve chosen Good Life Vacation Rental Resort & Event Spaces as our venue both for the conference and for housing (for a limited number of attendees) instead of a traditional chain hotel conference center and AirBnB or hotel room.
Not only is Good Life Vacation Rental Resort & Event Spaces a beautiful place, the workshop spaces (and everything else) are also mostly outdoors to support collective health and safety. (We still encourage masking and will provide N95 masks. It’s important to keep in mind that airports are large spreaders of contagions and to take precautions for community care and safety while you travel.)
And we still have a few beds left on-site! To help you decide whether to stay on-site with us rather than getting an AirBnB or a hotel room of your own, we’ve made a little pros and cons list. (In case you’ve already decided, but needed one more reminder to actually book. Here’s that reminder! Email Abigail to reserve your spot, and include your check-in and check-out dates and which bed you’d prefer.)
Pros:
🛌 More time with new and true friends!
🛌 No commuting in San Diego traffic.
🛌 The price point can’t be beat in San Diego!
🛌 You will be supporting a local, family owned business.
🛌 You will be helping recoup some sunk costs for CCF.
🛌 Staying on-site helps make the Reunion feel less like a traditional conference and more like a shared retreat and community space.
🛌 The ease of moving between sessions, meals, and informal gatherings, with the added bonus of not having to pack your day pack in the morning and realize you forgot something essential by the afternoon. (Who among us…)
Cons:
🛎️ We don’t have bellhops.
(If you need a reason NOT to get an AirBnB instead, there’s the impact that AirBnB has had on local communities by destroying local housing markets.)
Want to support the abundance?
Whether or not you can come join us (and we hope you can), you can help us lean into this abundance and not lose our shirts! We’re still looking for Values-Aligned Partners (VAPs) to help us afford the accessibility investments, stipends, and thoughtful design choices that we’ve committed to. (If you want to be a VAP or know someone who would, please check out our Prospectus and One-Pager and reach out to Amie!)
If you have pledged to be a VAP, please be sure to fulfill that pledge when you are able. We could use those contributions as we enter the final stretch to this movement-building moment!
And if you haven’t already, but plan on attending, please get your tickets! Let us know you’re coming to this abundant, relationship- and collaboration-building event.
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