Securing The Future Conference
Securing the Future is an annual, half-day conference dedicated to building the strategic, leadership, and resource development skills of the board, staff and donors of Greater Cincinnati nonprofits. This online educational conference is designed to address the needs and concerns of board members and senior leadership. The conference will feature Keynote Speaker, Vanessa Mason, Research Director at the Institute for the Future, as well as 13 Breakout Sessions led by local speakers for a deeper dive into the keynote topic. Click Here to check out all the conference offerings.
Keynote Speaker: Vanessa Mason
Vanessa Mason is the research director at the Institute for the Future, a 52 year old nonprofit organization that helps individuals, organizations and communities think systematically about the future. Her futures research explores how we can redesign and reimagine health and well-being across business, social, and civic spheres.
Her newsletter, Future of Belonging, explores how we can redesign tools and remodel approaches to fulfill the basic human need for belonging over the next decade as loneliness, alienation, and exclusion become more pervasive.
Vanessa has written for and been quoted in several media outlets including NPR and Fast Company. She has been recognized as a 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health Scholar, 40 Under 40 Tech Diversity Silicon Valley, 2016 New Leaders Council San Francisco Fellow, 200 Black Women in Tech to Follow on Twitter and as a 2016 TEDMED Research Scholar. Vanessa earned her BA in psychology from Yale University and her MPH in global health from Columbia University.
Deadline to Register: March 3, 2021
Sponsorship Opportunities Available - Click Here for more information.