We’re looking forward to seeing you at Granlibakken Tahoe!
September 18-19, 2025

As we gather, our desired outcomes are to deepen our shared knowledge of the ecosystem of donor education and organizing; better understand our collective challenges and opportunities for shared action; and build relationships and connections to facilitate partnerships.

A special thank you to our advisory committee and planning team for their hard work and dedication

DI Advisory Committee

• Nick Tedesco, National Center for Family Philanthropy (Chair)

• Brandolon Barnett, Giving Compass

• Jocelyn Berger, The Philanthropy Workshop

• Dolores Garay, Donors of Color Network

• Suzy Gigante, Virgin Unite

• Stephanie Gillis, Raikes Foundation

• Rajiv Khanna, Thousand Currents

• Zaynab Nawaz, Women Moving Millions

• Iara Peng, Just Fund

• Noelle Santaniello, National Center for Family Philanthropy

• Andine Sutarjadi, 21/64

• Hilda Vega, Hispanics in Philanthropy

• Hannah Whisler, Camelback Ventures

• Danielle Oristian York, 21/64

DI Planning Team

• Stephanie Gillis, Program Director, Raikes Foundation & Co-Chair, Impact Driven Philanthropy Collaborative

• Raquel Gimeno, Associate, Ktisis Capital

• Jason Franklin, Principal, Ktisis Capital

• Michael Pratt, Associate Director, Ktisis Capital

• Ayushi Vig, DI Community Engagement Manager

• Maketa Wilborn, Graphic Facilitator

View our community agreements here

What is Destination Impact?
Founded by the Raikes Foundation and now sponsored by the Impact Driven Philanthropy Collaborative, Destination Impact (DI) is a community of donor education and donor organizing practitioners (generally a mix of executive directors and program/donor organizing/donor education staff). We have fostered peer-to-peer learning and community-building spaces for our members since 2018. 

Our goals as a collaborative are to nurture a healthy, vibrant, and diverse donor support ecosystem; increase coordination and collaboration among our members; and influence more dollars through these networks to racial and social justice. Click here to see our collective vision diagram.

Destination Impact 2025

Destination Impact 2025 will take place from Thursday, September 18 to Friday, September 19 at Granlibakken Tahoe. We welcome two participants from each Destination Impact member organization – one CEO and one program lead. Additionally, each group can request a +1 for an extra program staff member if space permit, either by indicating in this form and/or by contacting Raquel Gimeno ([email protected]).

The Impact Driven Philanthropy Collaborative will cover lodging the nights of 9/17 and 9/18 and meals from an optional welcome reception/dinner on 9/17 through lunch on 9/19; your organization is responsible for your travel costs and any additional nights you chose to stay.

The deadline to register is June 30. If you have any further questions about registration, please contact Raquel Gimeno ([email protected]).

Key OBJECTIVES For our Gathering

1. Strengthen Relationships and Collective Capacity
   Harness the power of our network and trusting relationships to move beyond isolation and fear, sustain momentum, and respond proactively to threats targeting individuals, organizations, and movements.

2. Build Shared Strategy and Deepen Coordination
   Create space for donor networks to share internal critical analysis and strategies beyond their public-facing communications, fostering alignment and resilience amid increasing repression and rapidly shifting conditions.

3. Mobilize Capital and Protect Movement Ecosystems
   Coordinate strategies to both protect and advance racial and social justice, ensuring resources are moved boldly and effectively to fortify movements’ immediate and long-term resilience.

Shared Expectations

1. Honor the Weight of This Moment
   The past six months have affected each of us - as individuals, staff, and organizations - in different ways, shaped by our unique identities, positionalities, and circumstances. Let us recognize our varying capacities to take risks and how we are resourced to show up. Hold care and grace for these differences as we gather.

2. Bring Agency, Heart, and Strategy
   Be here with your doubts, fears, and failings - as well as your convictions, joys, and successes. We are each invited here as protagonists, strategists, and collaborators. Offer your insights, creativity, and courage, and receive the same from others. Share with care and listen with openness; trusting that our collective wisdom is essential to meeting the challenges and possibilities of our time. We need each one of us.

3. Work Toward Unity and Alignment
   Hold space for complexity and difference while seeking shared purpose. Focus on building strategies and strengthening relationships that will allow us to move forward together with clarity, courage, and resolve.

4. Hold Space for Complexity and Care
   Approach this gathering with humility and generosity. Welcome diverse and unexpected perspectives, tensions, and emotions - this is a space to grapple with hard questions while tending to one another and the work with compassion.

5. What is Offered in this Space is by Invitation, not Demand

   Do whatever your mind, body, and soul call for – we support you. You know your needs better than we do.

6. Speak your Truth in Ways that Respect Others’ Truths 

   Our views may differ, but speaking one’s truth in this space does not mean interpreting, correcting, or debating what others say. Speak from your center to the center of the circle, using “I” statements, trusting people to do their own sifting and winnowing.

7. Turn from Reaction and Judgment to Wonder and Compassionate Inquiry.

   Ask yourself, “I wonder why they feel/think this way?” or “I wonder what my reaction teaches me about myself?” Set aside judgment to listen to others — and to yourself — more deeply.

8. We’re Here to Construct and Orient towards Continuous Improvement

   We have to be willing to engage in the messy work of building, knowing we will never fully “arrive” at perfect solutions. 

9. Be Open to Not Knowing the Answer – and to Others Not Knowing. 

   Accept that “I don’t know” is a welcome answer from you and others. Try out sitting with the unknown.  

10. Trust and Learn from the Silence

    Silence is a gift in our noisy world – and its own path to knowing. Treat silence as a member of the group. After someone has spoken, take time to reflect without immediately filling the space with words.

High-level Agenda