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; build relationships and connections to facilitate partnerships; and offer chances to learn about the dynamics in Puerto Rico and explore how they can connect to and inform our work.

 

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

DI Advisory Committee

DI Planning Team

 

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. Connecting – We will spend time building relationships, which is especially important now given the high turnover of leadership among the DI member organizations.

  2. Understanding & learning – We will spend time mapping our ecosystem – who’s involved, who’s doing what, etc. – to position ourselves to better collaborate and magnify our efforts to advance racial justice.

  3. Sensemaking towards action – We will spend time in conversation to determine where there is energy, what is urgent, and how to best advance our shared work. 

  4. Rejuvenating – We will rest and reflect, with the goal of reconnecting with the reasons we do this work.

DI 2023 Community agreements:

  1. Be present as fully as possible – Be here with your doubts, fears, and failings – and your convictions, joys, and successes, listening, and speaking.

  2. 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.

  3. Speak your truth in ways that respects other people’s truth – 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. 

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Be open to you 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Let’s Take Care of Each Other – COVID is ever present and we encourage everyone to wear masks indoors. We also encourage you to  feel empowered to communicate your contact needs and do what you need to do to feel safe while respecting the contact needs of others.

High-level Agenda


November 29
Day 1

ARRIVAL

Reception dinner, open time, and hosted bar


November 30
Day 2 First full day

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

LEARNING & DISCOVERY 


Kick Off & Community Mapping & Connection – Grounding & goal setting, mapping and current state of the field, who’s in the room, and relationship building 


Breakouts – Open space conversations to dive deeper on priority topics that emerged from morning conversations & preset spaces for topics that are central to our work (e.g., Executive Leadership and Sustaining Our Commitments to JEDI)

Full Group – Pathways & Barriers to Successful Donor Organizing  

Connecting to Place – Offsite dinner & conversation with local Puerto Rican philanthropic leaders


December 1
Day 3 Second full day

Morning

Afternoon

Late Afternoon/Evening

PLANNING & ACTION


Breakouts & Action Labs – Deep dives into taking action & problem solving (also spaces for subsets of DI community who want to schedule planning meetings)


Full Group – Action lab commitments: where do we go from here? Space to share about the collaborations and commitments that emerged from the Action Labs. To close with revisiting our kick off conversation and vision.

Optional activities (site visits with Puerto Rican democracy & environmental activists, nature/outdoor excursions, arts & culture visits) & dinner


December 2
Day 4 No formal programming

OPTIONAL DAY

A few extended site visits or excursions will be offered for those choosing to stay for an extra day.