Guest-curated by Liberation Ventures, California Philanthropy: A Roadmap for Repair will explore how a culture of repair can inspire new models of philanthropy.
Join 140 philanthropic and social sector leaders with the common goal of advancing economic justice and racial equity in the Bay Area, California, and beyond. Plenary and breakout sessions will guide attendees through the iterative cycle of repair–reckoning, acknowledgment, accountability, and redress–and explore its application to asset-building philanthropy in the Bay Area. The conference will also spotlight California’s repair ecosystem with the first state-appointed task force in the nation to explore reparations.
Co-presented with Philanthropy California, this conference promises to strengthen the economic security field, deepen economic equity perspectives, and build new relationships among economic justice practitioners. Join us on March 20, 2025 in Oakland as we chart a roadmap for repair.
Guest Curator: Liberation Ventures
Co-Presenter: Philanthropy California
Conference Planning Committee:
Brandi Howard, East Bay Community Foundation, Committee Chair
Fiona Kanagasingam, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Glenda Monterroza, Kaiser Permanente
Lena Robinson, Federal Home Loan Bank Of San Francisco
Sarah Frankfurth, Northern California Grantmakers
Sabrina Wu, East Bay Community Foundation
AFN member registration now open!
REGISTER
- AFN Member – 2024 Early Bird: $250
- AFN Member – 2025 Regular: $500
- Non-Member Grantmaker: $750
- Nonprofit Community-Based Organizations: Free, registration opens in 2025
Questions? Contact Beth Yeap at beth@assetfunders.org
When:
Thursday, March 20, 2025
8:30am to 4:30pm PT
Where:
The California Endowment
2000 Franklin Street | Oakland, CA
Accessibility
Bay Area AFN is committed to making our 2025 conference accessible to everyone. Should you require accessibility assistance at this conference, please let us know your needs in detail during registration. AFN will make every effort to provide appropriate accommodations. Please email beth@assetfunders.org with any questions.
Transfer/Refund Policy
CANCELLATIONS: Cancellation requests must be submitted via email to beth@assetfunders.org and must be received by 5:00 PM (PT) on March 12, 2025 for a partial refund. A cancellation fee of $50 based on price paid will be assessed to cover administrative costs.
TRANSFERS: Registration can be transferred without a penalty. Please contact beth@assetfunders.org to transfer your ticket.
REFUNDS: Registration fees will not be refunded for cancellations after 5:00 PM (PT) on March 12, 2025. We regret that we cannot offer refunds for “no shows.”
Solicitation Free Statement
Asset Funders Network seeks to work and learn together openly. With gratitude, we engage veteran practitioners, sought-after experts, and newcomers with fresh perspectives to advance economic equity. Through our events, AFN offers grantmakers a space to discover and share best practices, innovative strategies, and actionable roles. To maintain a distraction-free environment that fosters learning and collaboration, AFN asks that all participants refrain from solicitation of grants, fund management, or investment requests of any kind.
The Bay Area AFN conference builds on AFN’s 2024 National Grantmaker conference foundational session on reparations featuring Aria Florant, Liberation Ventures, Dr. Andre Perry, Brookings Metro, and Ryan Haygood, New Jersey Institute for Social Change. The session’s framing of reparations and call to action brought the audience to their feet. Dr. Perry implored “just as policies of exclusion often start at the local level, policies of inclusion can be resourced and work their way up to the national level.” He asked “What will you do in local communities for this effort?” And from that question, the theme of AFN’s Bay Area 2025 conference, California Philanthropy: A Roadmap for Repair, was born.
Guest-curated by Liberation Ventures, the Bay Area AFN’s 2025 conference agenda will center racial repair, reparations, and how a culture of repair can inspire new models of philanthropy. Our current political environment demonstrates that repair is more necessary today than ever before. It is needed at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. The failure to repair the harms of the nation’s founding and the root of wealth inequity that continues through anti-Black systems and practices points to where we need to build and where we need to dismantle. Additionally, because of the movement’s long and rich history, it has much to teach us about hope and perseverance and how to handle new injustices as they arise.
This conference aims to equip Bay Area, California, and national funders with the tools, information, and partners to begin building a culture of repair inside their institutions, with their grantees, and across the economic justice field. We look forward to repairing together!
Developed for grantmakers, policy advocates, and economic justice practitioners, the Bay Area AFN conference explores emerging issues and innovative approaches to advance an inclusive economy and equitable prosperity in the Bay Area, California, and beyond. Our 2025 conference theme is California Philanthropy: A Roadmap for Repair.
We invite you to sponsor the Bay Area AFN 2025 Conference. Your conference sponsorship provides essential support for conference productions, demonstrates your leadership in the asset building field, and provides unique brand exposure. For a full list of sponsor benefits, please see our Conference Sponsorship Brochure.
To sponsor, contact Rebeca Rangel at rebeca@assetfunders.org.
Conference Scholarships
AFN is committed to making our conference inclusive for economic justice practitioners. To further this goal, AFN is building a Scholarship Fund to make the conference accessible to community-based grantmakers at no cost. Champion ($50,000) and Sustainer ($25,000) level sponsors will build a scholarship fund to assist with registration fees to ensure the greatest possible diversity of attendees. Supporters will receive recognition as a Scholarship Fund Sponsor.
Location:
The California Endowment’s
Center for Healthy Communities Oakland
2000 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612
510-271-4333
The California Endowment is easily accessible via BART or AC Transit. Paid parking is available nearby.
AIR: The closest airport is Oakland Intl. Airport (OAK), 8 miles away. It is accessible via BART or approximately a $25-40 Uber/Lyft ride.
BART: Quick Planner & Real Time Departures
BART 19th Street Oakland Station – use the 20th Street exit
The California Endowment is located on the corner of 20th & Franklin Street
AC TRANSIT (BUS):
The following bus lines serve the 19th Street BART area: 6, 11, 12, 14, 18, 51A, 72, 72M, 72R, 800, 802, 805, 851,
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AC Transit Maps & Schedules
PARKING
Douglas Parking/California Bank &Trust
Address: 2003 Franklin Street, Oakland 94612
Phone: 1-800-877-9984
Entrance: 20th & Franklin, off Franklin
Rate: $3.50/30 min, $14.00/All Day (7:30am-5:30pm)
ABM Parking Services/LAKE MERRITT PLAZA
Address: 1999 Harrison Street, Oakland 94612
Email: LMP@abm.com
Entrance: 20th & Harrison, off Harrison
Rate: $5.00/30 min, $30.00/All Day (6am‐7pm)
Ace Parking/Kaiser Plaza
Address: 325 22nd Street, Oakland 94612
Phone: 510‐340‐0897
Entrance: Webster St & Kaiser Plaza
Rate: $3.00/15 min, $35.00/All Day (24 hours)
*Note: All rates are subject to change without notice.
Thank you to our sponsors:
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