Building Trusted Relationships
Our community includes the trusted relationships, lived experience, ancient wisdom, resources, power, and access to ensure all people living in the U.S. thrive.
All changemakers in the Independent Sector Community gather through events (such as Upswell), fellowships, advisory groups, committees, or through Independent Sector membership to build a shared sense of belonging and align toward our shared vision and action.
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What is Community Building?
We build a sense of community among all leaders and provide opportunities to build capacity, bridges, and trust to ensure they are aligned toward a healthy and equitable future.
Who is in the Independent Sector Community?
Our community includes changemakers of all kinds – nonprofit and foundation leaders, community activists, philanthropists, researchers, academics, policymakers, and consultants.
Why Community Matters
We strive to be locally grounded, community-informed, and nationally relevant. We are driven by racial equity and inclusion, where Black, Native, people of color, LGBTQ+ folks, people with disabilities co-create vision and action.
What is Upswell?
Upswell is a community of changemakers who gather through a series events to strengthen our collective sense of belonging and trust, prioritize self and community care, and build a healthy and just society.
Our Member Community Commun
From the biggest foundations to local community organizations, with staffs from 35,000 to 2, our membership consists of nonprofits, foundations, and corporations engaged in every kind of charitable endeavor.
Independent Sector Fellows
Our Fellows community offers changemakers an in-depth opportunity to build trusted relationships, learn from one another, and share knowledge and experience to advance a healthy and equitable civil society.
Independent Sector Membership
From local community-based organizations to the biggest foundations, Independent Sector provides resources, access, discounts, and relationships to organizations from across the country.
Recognizing Transformative Leaders
Each year, Independent Sector recognizes extraordinary leaders who are making transformative impact toward a healthy and just civil society.