2025 Collaborative Conference: Meeting the Moment – Rooted Together – Sep 25-26

Posted by PA Association of Nonprofit Organizations (PANO) on August 5, 2025

The Collaborative Conference, September 25-26, 2025, where Pennsylvania’s nonprofit professionals go each year to connect, network, learn from each other, learn from experts, and together leverage our collective power to create change – within ourselves, our organizations, our sector, and our communities. For only the second time since 2019, we’re excited to take this experience fully off-screen, at our old haunt in State College. That’s right, this year’s conference will feature two days of in-person fun, learning, connection, and maybe even some shenanigans, at the good ol’ Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center.

Since January 2025, many nonprofit leaders have been operating in a constant state of fight or flight, reacting to chaotic shifts in Federal policy and funding that have reshaped how nonprofit work functions across the Commonwealth. Regardless of political affiliation, or even for those nonprofits that are fully nonpartisan, this has been an era of existential crisis for the sector.

The 2025 Collaborative Conference’s theme, Meeting The Moment – Rooted Together, is both an acknowledgement that this is a heavy, challenging time for the nonprofit community, and also offers a solution, a way to stand strong and united, tightly connected beneath the surface of an ever-shifting landscape. The systems upon which so many rely may be breaking, but Pennsylvania’s nonprofit community is not.

Learn more and register.