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2025 Conference
This year’s theme, “Essential Elements: From Basics to Brilliance,” will focus on providing practical tools and insights for nonprofits, especially those in rural and volunteer-led communities. We are seeking dynamic presentations that align with the theme and offer fresh ideas, resources, and strategies.
Event Details:
Annual Nonprofit Leaders Conference
March 6 & 7, 2025
Ocean Shores Convention Center
120 W Chance a La Mer NW
Ocean Shores, WA 98569
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Ben Danielson
Dr Danielson is a pediatrician and clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Throughout his time as a pediatrician, Danielson has facilitated the creation and development of diversity programs and contributed actively to governmental policy as a member of several health boards. Danielson was the medical director of the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic from 1999 to 2020, where he then resigned and spoke out about prevalent institutional racism and a resistance to change from hospital leaders. In September 2021, it was announced that Danielson would be directing a new program, Allies in Healthier Systems for Health & Abundance in Youth (AHSHAY) to help address and prevent youth incarceration
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Did you know that the Nonprofit Leaders Conference was created in response to the Great Recession? In those times, nonprofits were tasked with providing critical resources to our communities while navigating new and unfamiliar territory and many unknowns.
“In the midst of the ‘Great Recession,’ many nonprofits were struggling to survive in an environment of lost jobs and hunger where their work was needed most. Also, local governments were struggling and unable to provide needed services to local residents. With these points in mind, the Conference was organized to provide opportunities for nonprofits in Mason, Grays Harbor, Pacific and Wahkiakum counties in particular, for 1) training by professionals with extensive nonprofit experience, 2) networking and identifying common goals and needs, and 3) to hear from and meet with foundation leaders in plenary sessions and speed meets.”
Mayor Crystal Dingler, NPLC Founding Member, 2007
Then and now—we remain deeply dedicated to our mission of strengthening rural and coastal nonprofits. We’ll get through this, together.
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Honest Reviews
The biggest challenge in leadership is change: the social landscape, trends in volunteering, nonprofit board turnover, unpredictable funding. Professional development and connecting with peers are keys to success for nonprofit leaders in organizations of all sizes. By learning and evolving, leaders can become effective stewards of their cause and their stakeholders so they can become sustainable now and into the future.
Sheila Siden Resource Strategies
As an Executive Director at a non profit I don’t often get the time to sit and soak in the years of experience that are out in the non profit world. I can get so busy with day to day operations that I live in my whirlwind hole of doing good, that I forget to connect. This conference was amazing as there were so many other amazing everyday super hero’s in the room sharing their passions, struggles, successes and wisdom that the room literally vibrated with love.
Beth G. – The HUB Center for Seniors
This experience was priceless and will forever change the way that I run my non profit and also the way that I live my life. The power of good that can be accomplished by human beings willing to do for others is an extraordinary thing and I feel lucky to have been a part of it.