2026 Next Narrative Summit

The Next Nation

There's no going back but the future is still ours to build. Join the most forward-facing and fast-adapting philanthropies in the country as they share their foresight, insight, and skills for winning today and tomorrow without compromising your values.

This year's theme, The Next Nation, is about moving beyond fear and stigma and orienting ourselves toward the Next opportunities emerging before us. Opportunities to double the number of people who side with you on critical issues in education, technology, health, culture, freedom and justice. Opportunities to forge far stronger multiracial alliances that win big in red, blue, and purple states. Actual blueprints that build wealth, not just manage poverty.

We cannot win the future with yesterday's strategies. The Next Nation can be defined by our shared commitment to mutual aspirations, guided by a new narrative for our sector as builders of better systems rather than fixers of…