Join PANO and conference partners Alliance for Nonprofit Resources (ANR), the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership (GPNP), and Villanova University IN PERSON again this fall for the 2025 Collaborative Conference. Details about this year’s theme, speaking opportunities, sponsorship packages, and more will be shared soon. For now:
At a time when nonprofits are stretched thin, communities are under pressure, and policy landscapes keep shifting, the 2025 Collaborative Conference calls us to meet this complex, high-stakes moment with shared strength, supportive connection, and statewide solidarity.
Meeting the Moment – Rooted Together is a rallying cry and a grounding principle. It calls us to forge deep roots in shared purpose and statewide movement-building. By meeting this moment together, we carry each other forward – and grow what’s next.
The 2025 conference seeks to:
The visible work we accomplish is powerful, but our deeper resilience arises from relationships we build across the Commonwealth. This conference is where we tend to those roots.
The conference has adopted the Aspen tree as a metaphor. Aspen trees have root systems that run deep and strong, and are interconnected with the root systems of other Aspen trees. For more, read this: Aspen – So Much More Than a Tree.