Designing the board nonprofits need now
San Francisco | June 8, 2026 | AWS Builder Loft and Okta HQ
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, AWS, 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.
SF is the first stop.
OPPORTUNITIES
Evening reception | 5:30-8:00 pm
75-100 guests. Fireside conversation with Buddy Shah, Chair of Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust and CEO of CHAI. Reveal of afternoon findings. Curated networking across tech, philanthropy, and the social sector.
Afternoon working session | 2:30-5:00 pm
Invitation-only, 25 contributors. Structured foresight exercise with nonprofit CEOs and EDs, corporate CSR and L&D leaders, funders, tech leaders, and placed board members. Contributors leave with a 90-day roadmap for every board they sit on, fund, or advise, and are recognized at the reception that follows and credited in the series report.
If you’ve received an invitation for the afternoon working session, register here:
If you haven’t received an invitation but think you belong in the room, request one an invitation:
WHO’S IN THE ROOM
Leaders from Board.Dev’s 4,000-person network, AWS’s nonprofit partners, and the Board.Dev Nonprofit Tech Governance Congress, whose members include leaders from Bridgespan, MacArthur Foundation, LinkedIn, Anthropic, Schmidt Sciences, and more.
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.
Co-hosts
Okta | AWS | Board.Dev
Questions:
Contact Alethea Hannemann | alethea@board.dev