Designing the board nonprofits need now
888 Broadway, New York | September 29, 2026
Boards need to change—not incrementally, structurally. A third of US nonprofits lost government funding in the first half of 2025. Individual donors have declined every year since 2019. AI is accelerating every one of these pressures. Boards are the only body in an organization with the authority to authorize the transformation this moment demands. Most aren’t ready to do it, but boards that don’t adapt will be managing decline, not transformation.
Okta, and Board.Dev are convening leaders across three cities—San Francisco, New York, Chicago—to design the board nonprofits need now. After each city, we’ll deliver a brief on findings; after the series, we’ll publish a signature blueprint on where leaders agreed, where they diverged, and what the field should do now.
Join Us
Evening reception | 5:30-8:00 pm
Join 75–100 leaders across tech, philanthropy, and the social sector for an intimate evening salon in New York City.
A fireside conversation with Shamina Singh, President of Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth & EVP of Sustainability, and Zia Khan, independent advisor, having recently led strategy, programs, and innovation at The Rockefeller Foundation—on what it actually takes for nonprofits to lead in the age of AI.
First look at the day’s findings. Be the first to hear insights from the afternoon working session, where a select group of nonprofit leaders tackled the hardest questions facing the sector on AI adoption. What they surfaced won’t be published anywhere else—you’ll hear it in the room first.
Curated networking that puts funders, technologists, and nonprofit executives at the same table—the conversations that don’t happen anywhere else.
The signature blueprint
Together, we’ll build the definitive field document on how nonprofit boards are actually making AI decisions right now: what’s working, what’s breaking, and what the sector needs to do next. We’ll produce a city dispatch after each salon; at the series completion, a signature blueprint pulls together what leaders across three cities agreed on, where they diverged, and what the field should do now. Distributed through Board.Dev’s network of 1,000+ nonprofits, funders, and tech leaders, plus field partners across philanthropy, tech, and nonprofit sectors.
Who’s in the room
Leaders from Board.Dev’s 4,000-person network, nonprofit partners, and the Board.Dev Nonprofit Tech Governance Congress, whose members include leaders from Bridgespan, MacArthur Foundation, LinkedIn, Anthropic, Schmidt Sciences, and more.
Co-hosts
Okta | Board.Dev | Atlassian
Questions:
Contact Alethea Hannemann | alethea@board.dev