Each session will be a mix of community building, sharing skills/practices and frameworks, generating ideas, organizing, and building a resource library.
Last updated 11/29/2025
Wednesday | December 3, 2025
THE STATE OF THE FAITH + IMPACT CONVERSATION
7 - 7:30 am Morning Activities
Option A- Yoga (mats will be provided)
Option B- Outdoor walk (dress warm!)
8 - 8:45 am Breakfast available
8:45 am Group building and Introductions
9:00 am Practices Showcase
Engagement with local faith communities in social impact
Strengthening social impact practitioners of faith
Learning from faith-based and faith-informed social impact interventions
10:00 am Networking break
10:30 am Framework Showcase
Relationship of faith to social impact work
11:30 am Discussion + Work Product Goals (needs/pain points)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
Optional Activity- Axe Throwing
1:30 pm Collaborative Work (diverge and converge around deliverables)
Shared framework for role of faith in social impact
Shared priorities for social impact engagement with local faith communities in social impact
Strengthening social impact practitioners of faith
Sharing learning from faith-based and faith-informed social impact interventions
Future structure of this group
2:00 pm Collaborative Work Check-in (best divergent ideas and convergent decision; feedback)
2:30 pm Collaborative Work (work on prototypes)
3:30 pm Prototype Share-out and Feedback
4:00 pm Work Time (final deliverable)
5:00 pm Deliverable Showcase
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Optional Evening Activities
Option A- Pottery Glazing
Option B- Shuttle to Sundance Resort
Thursday | December 4, 2025
CENTERS + UNIVERSITIES AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
7 - 7:30 am Morning Activities
Option A- High Fitness Yoga (mats will be provided)
Option B- Outdoor walk (dress warm!)
8 - 8:45 am Breakfast available
8:45 am Group building and Introductions
9:00 am What We Know, What We Don't
How we are organized
Why we exist
Working in constrained environments
Politically charged and rapidly changing environments
Solving social problems while experiencing their consequences
Building and maintaining hope and resilience
9:30 am Practices Showcase
Student programming
Issue-focused programming
Social impact portfolio
Working in constrained environments
Multi-stakeholder convenings, collaboration, Coalitions, and Consortiums
10:30 am Networking break
11:00 am Framework Showcase
Systems thinking
Teaching social impact
Practicing social impact
Building and maintaining hope and resilience
Social impact and related concepts (social justice, etc.)
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Role of the university in social impact discussion
Role of the university in solving social problems
Role of the social impact center in amplifying the role of the university
2:30 pm Work product goals
Position paper on the role of universities in solving social problems
Position paper on the role of social impact centers in amplifying the role of universities
Future structure of this group
3:00 pm Collaborative work (diverge and converge around deliverables)
3:30 pm Prototype share-out and feedback
4:00 Work time (final deliverable)
5:00 pm Deliverable Showcase
5:30 pm Discussion and Next Steps
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Optional Evening Activities
Option A- Pottery Glazing
Option B- Shuttle to Sundance Resort
Friday | December 5, 2025
PROSOCIAL BUSINESS EDUCATION
7 - 7:30 am Morning Activities
Option A- High Fitness Yoga (mats will be provided)
Option B- Outdoor walk (dress warm!)
8 - 8:45 am Breakfast available
8:45 am Group building and Introductions
9 am Practices Showcase
Nurturing social entrepreneurship
Teaching the social impact of business
Teaching social impact in business
Improving the social impact of business
10 am Networking break
10:30 am Framework Showcase
Business and social impact
Prosocial business
Poverty + prosperity
11:30 am Discussion + Challenges (needs/pain points)
Politics and prosocial business
Tension between niche prosocial business and business writ large
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30 pm Resource library consensus exercise
Organizational structure
Topical coverage of units
Each unit will contain:
Definitions
Readings
Cases
Sample syllabi
Leads for additional contributions
2-2:15 Surprise! Break!
2:15 pm Collaborative Work
3 pm Gap analysis (what is still missing?)
4 pm Fill the gaps work Time (Find or write deliverable to fill the gap - 1-2 page strong thought "papers")
5:00 pm Deliverable Showcase
5:30 Where (else) to convene
5:45 Farewell
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Optional Evening Activities
Shuttle to Sundance Resort (live music)