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Let’s sharpen our leadership for a resilient and dynamic future.
At MCN’s 2026 Nonprofit Leadership Conference, access forward-thinking leadership strategies, peer-tested planning resources, and practical coaching tools to help you confidently lead your organization from uncertainty to resilience.
Don’t miss this full day of in-person learning, dreaming, collaboration, and growth with 400+ of your peer nonprofit leaders.
2026 Nonprofit Leadership Conference
Thursday, May 21, 2026
7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center
200 SE Oak St., Minneapolis
Conference Highlights
A full day of in-person professional development to grow your leadership skills.
20 Breakout Sessions on leadership strategies, case studies, and skill development.
To be announced soon >>
Thought provoking Keynote to inspire action and bravery in your leadership journey.
To be announced soon >>
Comradery, collaboration, and community with 400+ nonprofit leaders.
Conference topics to grow your leadership:
- Effective, inquisitive, and nuanced coaching strategies.
- Understanding inequities in traditional leadership, strategies to disrupt and dismantle, and ideas that establish inclusive cultures of growth.
- The latest leadership research, with case studies on implementation and lessons learned from nonprofit peers.
- Executive transitions in historically white led nonprofits—naming, disrupting, and repairing the bias and nuanced challenges experienced by leaders who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
- Expectation setting and activation strategies to build effective board partnerships.
- Bolster your all-around operational knowledge, including compliance, scenario planning, administration, evaluation, communications, and advocacy.
Conference Tickets
Member Early Bird Rate
$235
Available through February 19, 2026.
Nonmember Rate
$385
Available through May 13, 2026.
Pay What You Can Rate
$129 – $159
Available through May 21, 2026.
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This Conference is generously sponsored by:
Thank you, Conference Planning Committee:
- Ali Britzman, Young Nonprofit Professionals Network – Twin Cities, Board Member
- Jonathan Brown, Praxis Group MN, Strategic Leadership Coach & Founder
- Nicole Clements, Initiative Foundation, Nonprofit Development Program Officer
- Nicole DeBoer, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, Executive Director
- Jamie (Schumacher) Kalakaru-Mava, Local Initiatives Support Corporation – Twin Cities, Senior Program Officer, Creative Placemaking & Communications
- Kaitlin (Kate) King, Feline Rescue, Executive Director
- Pele Le, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Program Manager
- Shahrin Upoma, University of Minnesota, Leadership and Management Area at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Assistant Professor
- Xavier Vazquez, Centro Tyrone Guzman, Executive Director
- Youa Vang, Ramsey County Historical Society, Vice President