Designing the board nonprofits need now

Atlassian, 888 Broadway, New York |  September 29, 2026

Presented by Board.Dev and Okta, with our evening reception hosted by Atlassian Foundation.

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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, Founder and President of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and Executive Vice President of Sustainability at Mastercard, 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. The evening also features a conversation between Nabiha Syed, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, and Anil Dash, cofounder and principal of antitech, on what the social sector needs from technology, and what technology needs from it; and a conversation between Erran Berger, Chief Technology Officer, Engineering at LinkedIn, and Susan Murray, CEO of Year Up United, on what board partnerships need to look like in the AI era
 
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.
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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. Produced with Bridgespan and distributed through Board.Dev’s network of 1,000+ nonprofits and field partners like MacArthur Foundation, LinkedIn, and Anthropic. 

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 Foundation

Questions:
Contact Alethea Hannemann | alethea@board.dev