Digital Strategy Summit
November 16th - 20th
5 BIG DAYS giving you the latest digital strategy for nonprofits, advocacy, and social impact organizations.
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The Digital Strategy Summit is the event where you can connect with others and learn to create a bigger impact with digital strategy, innovation, and AI.
We host summits that equip you with real, implementable strategies. Tactics that can impact your goals and tools that deliver tangible results for nonprofits and advocacy organizations.
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Training, strategy, & insights to expand your Digital Strategy.
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Streaming Live and Fully Interactive Online Summit.
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Sessions are recorded and available to stream on demand with Summit+ Pass
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Summit+ Pass attendees get access to Resources, Recordings, and Resources.
Join solo or bring your team!
Teams get an automatic discount. 10% for 2, 20% for 3-4, and 30% off 5+ Everyone gets access to all of the live sessions, resources, and on-demand recordings.
What to expect from a 5 Day Online Digital Strategy Summit?
Purposely designed for Nonprofits, Civic and Advocacy Organizations, Social Impact Organizations, Political Campaigns, Charities, Labor Unions, Foundations and their Grantees, Educational Institutions, Governmental Agencies, and International Organizations
Winning strategies, immediately applicable tactics, and case studies from organizations leading in social impact.
A digital-first experience — not a half-hearted stream from an in-person event.
Designed for busy professionals and teams. Easy access, access to resources, and watch on-demand for the sessions you can’t make.
Access to every speaker in Q&A and extensive options to follow up and connect.
Sessions
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Daily sessions: November 16th - 20th
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Most sessions occur between 12 ET / 9 am PT and 6 ET / 3 PT
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Sessions include panels, case studies, strategy sessions, training, and workshops. — All to help your organization make a bigger impact on your goals.
Monday November 16th
The Digital Strategy Landscape: What It Means for Organizations Today
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1 ET / 10am PT
Key Takeaways
Separate signal from noise: identify which digital shifts actually matter—and which to ignore.
Fresh takes on today's digital trends from folks working in the field every day.
Clear perspective on how winning strategies are taking shape—and what that means for your organization.
Hot Tips on Video Storytelling for Your Fundraising Event
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2 ET / 11am PT
Key Takeaways
Insight on how professional filmmakers produce video storytelling for non profit and foundation clients
Best practices for shaping effective story arcs for fundraising
5 Things to Know before Overhauling Your Website
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3 ET / 12 PT
Key Takeaways
Your org chart is not your information architecture
You're designing for the organization you're becoming
Launch is only the beginning
Six Degrees of Your Decision-Maker: Building Atmospheres of Advocacy
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4 ET / 1 PT
Key Takeaways
Map the atmosphere. Find the peers, media, experts and organizations your decision-maker already trusts.
Turn the map into a targeting strategy. Build precise social media audiences around the people in your target's orbit.
Make a small budget go further. Put your ad spend in front of a few thousand people who matter.
Tuesday November 17th
From Scattered Information to a Review-Ready Report
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1 2 ET / 9am PT
Key Takeaways
Define what each source contributes and what belongs in the report.
Give AI clear instructions to assemble a draft, preserve source references, and flag gaps or conflicts.
Structure human review so contributors can check facts, context, and conclusions before approval.
Analyzing your Organizational Digital Strategy with the 3 Pillars
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1 ET / 10am PT
Key Takeaways
The 3 Pillars framework — how Strategy, Capacity, and Infrastructure work together as the foundation of organizational digital strategy
A practical starting point — questions and a process you can use to assess your own digital strategy through the three pillars
A shared vocabulary — how to use this lens to align staff, leadership, and boards in conversations about digital priorities and investment
Activations over Hype: Activating the Tools You Already Own to End "Fire Drill" Culture
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2 ET / 11am PT
Key Takeaways
Audit Your Machine for "Momentum Leaks": Identify the structural fault lines and repetitive friction causing your team to rely on frantic "hero mode".
Activate the Tech You Already Own: Look inside your existing software stack to unlock hidden AI features and automation workflows without adding expensive new overhead.
Operationalize Empathy with AI: Build a framework that positions AI as a "tireless teammate" to absorb operational friction, protecting staff capacity and restoring work-life boundaries.
The Twilight Zone, Taxonomies, and Building an Editorial Matrix
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3 ET / 12 PT
Key Takeaways
See the system before building the system. Learn to identify relationships and recurring patterns within seemingly disconnected content.
Build taxonomies around meaning, not just format. Move beyond organizing by channel, audience, or content type to uncover the ideas actually holding an editorial ecosystem together.
Turn pattern recognition into practical structure. Translate observations into themes, territories, categories, and ultimately an editorial matrix.
Change Management for Remote Teams: Having Hard Conversations Across Screens
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4 ET / 1 PT
Key Takeaways
The foundations of a good change conversation still apply online, so prepare the same way and then adapt for the virtual setting.
Ask the hard questions in writing before the meeting, and ask every role the same question to see where the team is not aligned.
Use cameras, chat, polls, and breakout rooms to create safe spaces; treat silence as a signal to follow up, not as agreement.
How to Do Digital Advocacy That Cuts Through in 2027
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5 ET / 2 PT
Key Takeaways
Run campaigns that decision-makers can’t filter out or ignore
How to hone your message for different social platforms and which one's deliver the most engagement for progressive campaigns.
Use automated tracking and segmentation to win more supporters and donations
Wednesday November 18th
Maximize Your Fundraising Impact: Website Strategies to Drive Donations
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2 ET / 11am PT
Key Takeaways
How to set up landing pages to maximize conversions and drive more donations
How to write clear, compelling content for the web to get speedy comprehension and interest
How to understand what people are doing on your landing pages and what to do with that information.
Don't Spend Your AI Dividend on More Email.
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3 ET / 12 PT
Key Takeaways
Spot where AI is already freeing up capacity in your digital program, including tools staff are using without approval.
Use a simple portfolio approach to run AI experiments at a level of risk your organization can live with.
Make the case to leadership for reinvesting AI's time savings in supporter engagement and innovation rather than volume or cuts.
Putting Authenticity at the Center of Creator Campaigns
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5 ET / 2 PT
Key Takeaways
Identify the ingredients of an authentic creator partnership and understand why audience fit, creator voice, and trust matter more than follower count
Build better briefs and collaborations that give creators the direction they need while leaving room for their own perspective and creativity.
Measure creator campaign impact in practical ways that go beyond vanity metrics.
Thursday November 19th
We Analyzed 200,000 Nonprofit Websites. Find Out How Yours Stacks Up.
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1 2 ET / 9am PT
Key Takeaways
Where your nonprofits digital marketing maturity stands against industry benchmarks
Easy optimization opportunities to improve your nonprofit's digital marketing
Common nonprofit digital marketing technology "stacks"
Claude Code, level two: habits for handing AI real work
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2 ET / 11am PT
Key Takeaways
How to set up layered instruction files so every session starts with your rules, your projects, and what went wrong last time.
A simple routine for having one AI review another's plans and code before anything goes live.
A short checklist for backups, secrets, and proof-of-done that makes it safe to trust AI with real work.
The Easiest Ways to Partner With Creators in 2027
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3 ET / 12 PT
Key Takeaways
Practical best practices for finding, briefing, compensating, and managing creators on nonprofit-sized budgets.
How to use creator-made UGC beyond social posts—including paid media, organic channels, email, and other campaign content.
How agentic AI tools like Val can automate creator outreach, coordination, follow-up, and reporting so small teams can run larger programs.
Achieving Resonance: Lessons from Bill Harvey on the Frontiers of Media and Persuasion
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4 ET / 1 PT
Key Takeaways
Learn about subconscious drivers of behavior -- 265 value signals -- shown to move choice behavior in Wharton Neuroscience Initiative
Gain an understanding of why piling up ad impressions isn't enough to move hearts and minds.
Discover the teachings of a pioneer in media research who dedicated much of his last months to applying his technology to efforts to save our democracy
Friday November 20th
From Data to Persuasion: Using AI to Find the Persuadables and Make a Case for Value
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2 ET / 11am PT
Key Takeaways
Your polling presentation may be killing your own argument. Here's why.
The persuadable audience is bigger than you think — and reachable.
AI can find the best case for your position. Use it.
Creative Strategy is Campaign Strategy: Starting with Creative Increases ROI
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4 ET / 1 PT
Key Takeaways
Creative strategy is more than visuals, it's the problem solver between ROI and difficult briefs.
Clever design choices make a memorable campaign stick.
In the age of ai, bespoke visual identities & copy for your campaign will resonate more.
Summit FAQ
Yes, to make the event as accessible as possible we offer our summits completely online so people can join from anywhere in the world.
Yes, all sessions will be recorded and available to Summit+ Pass holders.
With your Summit+ Pass you can access all All Live Sessions + Access to On-Demand Recordings, Speaker Resources & Toolkits, Private Peer Networking Group, Slides & Chat Notes All available for 4 months.Yes! This event will give attendees, sponsors, and speakers the chance to connect. Live session attendees can join and connect in the session chat.
Summit+ Pass attendees also have the opportunity to connect in a private online group.
You can pay with a credit card using the register link.
If you need to pay with an online check or invoice please email: support@centerfordigitalstrategy.com
Yes, we offer scholarships for individuals and organizations who need them for Summit+ Passes
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Like any live event, the content and schedules are subject to change because the speakers are humans, and technology will always be complicated.
Summit+ Pass
On-Demand Access: All sessions are recorded and available for on-demand streaming, so your entire team can learn at their own pace.
Resources: Get access to speaker resources, chat info, and links.
Private Group: Join the AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy Summit private group to connect with attendees and speakers during and after the event.
Recordings and resources remain available for 4 months, barring any recordings or hosting issues.1 Week prior to the event you will be added to a Zoom Event
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You can use your normal Zoom login
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Come and go on your own schedule.
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Only one person can use the Zoom link.
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If someone else wants to join live, have them register separately.
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Updates from support@centerfordigitalstrategy.com
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You'll receive an invite to Google Calendar events for each session.
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We'll send daily updates from support@centerfordigitalstrategy.com
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Make sure to add the Center for Digital Strategy to Contacts
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Summit+ Access
You'll receive a group invite 1 week prior to the event
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Plus an on-demand page where all of the recordings and resources will be hosted.
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Still have questions?
Email to support@centerfordigitalstrategy.com