Crafting a Powerful Story for Impactful Advocacy

Your experiences are the foundation for powerful advocacy, offering lawmakers a blueprint for change. In this interactive webinar, you’ll learn how to tell your story in ways that are emotionally resonant, strategically focused, and aligned with current policy efforts.

Advocacy Ecosystems: Building Collective Power Across Sectors

To create sustainable, lasting change, we need to build on strong advocacy campaigns with strong ecosystems. This session will explore the conditions and factors needed for strategic advocacy infrastructure, which connects individual voices to a broader movement.

Leading Change Workshop

Leaders and managers need to engage in both change management (process focus) and change leadership (people focus) to intentionally lead others and drive results during times of change. This workshop focuses on how to successfully lead change by applying three essential skills: Communication, collaboration, and commitment.

$250

Intensive Accreditation Training (IAT) and Performance Quality Improvement (PQI) at SPARK 2025

Hilton Chicago 720 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, United States

These trainings are pre-conference sessions of the SPARK 2025 conference. The Intensive Accreditation Training (IAT) session is designed to prepare organizations to get the most out of their COA Accreditation experience. The performance and quality improvement (PQI) training will help organization develop a comprehensive approach to a quality improvement process that will advance effective service delivery and organizational capacity.

$400

Advocacy Amplified: Rapid Response & Readiness in a Shifting Policy Landscape

Hilton Chicago 720 S Michigan Ave., Chicago, United States

During this pre-conference session, participants will gain practical skills in policy analysis, narrative framing, and grassroots mobilization. With a focus on low-cost, high-impact strategies, this session is designed for organizations operating with limited capacity but high stakes.

$295