Building Connection & Capacity: Envisioning What’s Next Together
This interactive workshop aims to create a shared vision on how nonprofits and consultants can work to build their capacity in their respective sectors. Join us for this special opportunity to work collaboratively on practical ways to strengthen your organization’s capacity and continue to build a shared vision of what a resilient, connected nonprofit sector looks like in Greater Milwaukee.
Inspired by the conversations that began at the May 2025 Learning and Networking Event, “Where Hope Gathers: Navigating change together,” this workshop will reflect on the key issues and ideas identified by nonprofit leaders and consultants related to strengthening the nonprofit sector. These reflections will serve as the starting point for in-depth discussion and visioning activities led by facilitators Angie Asa-Lovstad and Jill List, and hosted by Nonprofit Lift and the Nonprofit Management Fund.
This workshop includes two sector-specific convenings: the morning session geared to nonprofit leaders (executive staff and board directors) and the afternoon session geared to nonprofit consultants who serve the Greater Milwaukee community. (Consultants, join us at an informal meet-up the night before: Wednesday, November 5, at Station 1846 from 4:30-6:30 pm. Register here).
Each 3-hour session will surface challenges, identify capacity-building needs, and capture insights from within each group. A joint networking lunch will bring the two groups together for informal conversations.
These foundational conversations will not only provide immediate insights, but also lay
the groundwork for long-term capacity building strategies that:
- Enhance leadership development through peer connection, shared learning, and reflection of current challenges and strengths.
- Identify early priorities that can align efforts across the sector and inform future convenings.
- Create space for relationship building and trust, increasing readiness for collaboration.
Register by Friday, October 31.
Agenda
8:30–9 am: Check-in for the nonprofit leaders session opens
9 am–12 pm: Nonprofit leaders facilitated session
12–12:45 pm: Networking lunch for nonprofit leaders and consultants
12:45–1 pm: Check-in for nonprofit consultants
1–4 pm: Nonprofit consultants facilitated session
Address & Directions
Uplifting Mansion, the Ballroom
3121 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, 53208
Parking: There is limited parking next to the building and ample parking on the street.
About Nonprofit Lift
Nonprofit Lift is committed to making capacity-building services and resources more accessible to nonprofits in the Greater Milwaukee area. These resources include a directory of more than 160 consultants specializing in advocacy, governance, marketing, and more, and a resource library of more than 120 links to articles, data, templates, trainings, and more.
Nonprofit Lift strategic partners include:
The Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management at UW-Milwaukee, Jobs That Help, LISC Milwaukee, the Nonprofit Management Fund, and the Urban Economic Development Association of Wisconsin.
Learn more at nonprofitlift.org.
About the Nonprofit Management Fund
The Nonprofit Management Fund accelerates the effectiveness of nonprofits to build strong and vibrant communities by providing capacity-building technical assistance grants to nonprofit organizations for governance planning, training, and assessment.
Since 1994, the Nonprofit Management Fund has operated as a collaboration of private funders in the metropolitan Milwaukee area. Collectively, the funders have contributed over $10 million for grants to nonprofit organizations and to implement capacity-building related initiatives.