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The 2025 National Small Nonprofit Summit

April 8, 2025 - April 9, 2025 | In-Person at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC
Designed by small nonprofit professionals, for small nonprofit professionals.


Defining Tomorrow Together: Building Resilient Nonprofits

Local nonprofits are endlessly creative, adaptable, and resourceful. As we continue to meet increasing demand for our services and serve as community leaders in uncertain times, we need to strengthen our capacity as individuals, organizations, and as a sector.Spur Local's annual National Small Nonprofit Summit offers affordable and accessible capacity building for small nonprofit staff. Across two days, connect with other professionals and dive deeper into fundraising, communications, management, and other relevant topics. We will focus on ideas, next steps, and takeaways that are effective for organizations with small teams or budgets.Resilient communities require resilient nonprofits. Register to join us today so that we can define, together, what our communities look like tomorrow.

Expert Speakers

Hear from the Spur Local team and guest speakers in keynote sessions, panels, and presentations.

Peer Connections

Meet other small nonprofit professionals in peer-to-peer breakout sessions and networking happy hours.

Actionable Insights

Participate in hands-on workshops and leave with takeaways you can implement immediately.

Effective Ideas

100% focused on realistic solutions that fit small nonprofits with lean budgets and nimble teams.

Presenting Sponsor

Ticket

$20

Early bird tickets are available till March 21, 2025 at 11:59pm.Each ticket provides access to both days of the in-person conference.Existing Spur Local nonprofit partners can access the conference for free.

+ Membership

$100

Tickets are available till April 4, 2025 at 5pm.This ticket adds a membership to Spur Local's digital resource library.Existing Spur Local nonprofit partners already receive this membership benefit.

+ Consulting

$250

Tickets are available till April 4, 2025 at 5pm.This ticket adds an hour-long one-on-one consulting session with a Spur Local team member.Existing Spur Local nonprofit partners do not currently receive this consulting benefit.


Keynote Speaker

To Be Announced Soon!

Session Schedule

To Be Announced Soon!

About Spur Local

Spur Local (formerly the Catalogue for Philanthropy) is a small nonprofit based in the Greater Washington region. Since 2003, we have been dedicated to raising awareness for, and capacity of, small and local nonprofits. We have raised more than $65 million for our network of 500 small, local nonprofit partners and trained over 25,000 nonprofit staff.

Our Team

Sarah Hall Aguila

Development Director

Katie Dean

Senior Nonprofit Programs Associate

Chiara Frechette

Nonprofit Programs Director

Matt Gayer

Executive Director

Amanda Liaw

Communications Director

Elyse Nelson

Deputy Director


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80 M Street SE, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20003