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Welcome to Beyond Impact 2025, a strategy and learning space. Beyond Impact exists to serve and strengthen the advocacy infrastructure of movement leaders passionate about igniting a revolutionary shift in the political landscape of the United States.
This year, Beyond Impact will take place from Wednesday, September 17-Friday, September 19, 2025, in Baltimore, MD.
For generations, Black and Brown communities and allies have demonstrated unwavering resilience, holding the line and building power despite the challenges posed by political leadership at all levels. By Any Means Necessary: People, Power, and Possibilities is a space where movement leaders, organizers, and funders can come together to strengthen community bonds, strategize, and develop tangible steps for the fight ahead.
We are curating a convening that centers frontline wisdom, prioritizes real-time problem solving, and deepens the relationships that sustain movements –ensuring that our collective power is preserved and expanded. In a political moment that demands both resistance and innovation, we are gathering to ask: What has worked? What must evolve? And how do we continue to show up for our communities –by any means necessary?
What to expect
Beyond Impact 2025 will offer plenaries, breakout sessions, strategy-building spaces, and wellness experiences that ground us in the work ahead.
Attendees will have access to:
Strategic Dialogue
Conversations about the most pressing issues impacting movement leaders today.
Tactical Skill-Building
Workshops to refine organizing strategies and strengthen partnerships.
Narrative Power and Storytelling
Explore how messaging and cultural strategies drive political influence and sustain engagement.
Funding and Infrastructure
Bridge movement work to philanthropic partners to resource long-term power building.
Health and Restoration Spaces
Sustainable movement work requires care, rest, and intentional renewal.
Risk Management
Protecting the work and our people and organizations
Why Does it Matter?
At a time when humanity is facing intensified political attacks, Beyond Impact 2025 will equip leaders with the resources needed to defend and reimagine power.
This convening will:
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Reflect on what has worked - Leveraging lessons learned
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Strategize for what next - Work together to develop actionable strategies for ballot initiatives and long-term political engagement.
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Commit to sustained action - Ensuring our movements have infrastructure, support, and vision to continue fighting by any means necessary.
FAQs
1. WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Tides Advocacy calls all visionary leaders, and passionate funders committed to driving social justice through organizing!
Are you a movement leader, change-maker, seasoned activist, funder, or emerging advocate with a burning desire to advance a social justice agenda? Beyond Impact is your platform to connect, collaborate, and learn from like-minded individuals who share your unwavering commitment to creating a more just and equitable society. A genuinely inclusive movement requires the collaboration of voices for cross-racial solidarity. The time is now.
If you are ready to make a lasting impact and be part of the movements reshaping our world, join us at Beyond Impact 2025.
2. SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES!
Travel scholarship application process is open to everyone! At Beyond Impact, we value inclusivity and aim to deepen our community of movement leaders, changemakers, and those interested in attending. To achieve this, we have created a scholarship program. Our goal is to offer financial assistance to selected recipients to help cover expenses related to the convening (i.e., registration fees, travel, and hotel lodging).
Please note that the availability of travel scholarships is limited, and we strongly advise applicants to apply as soon as possible. We will do our best to provide as much financial assistance as possible to those who qualify.
Apply for a Scholarship here.
3. KEY DATES!
Friday, May 9, 2025
Call for Ideas Submission Due Date
Friday, July 25, 2025
Scholarship Application Submission Due Date
Friday, August 12, 2025
Confirm Your Sponsorship Due Date
Friday, August 19, 2025
Scholarship Notifications Sent Via Email
Friday, August 26, 2025
Registration Deadline
Wednesday, September 17 - Friday, September 19, 2025
Beyond Impact 2025 Convening
Questions?
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Beyond Impact
Schedule At-a-Glance
September 17
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Registration Check-in
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Welcome Reception
September 18
7:00am - 8:00am
Wellness
8:00am - 9:00am
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am
Morning Plenary
10:30am - 11:00am
Break and Mini Wellness
11:00am - 12:30pm
Breakout Sessions
12:30pm - 1:45pm
Lunch
1:45pm - 2:00pm
Break
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Breakout sessions
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Break and Mini-Wellness
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Afternoon Plenary
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Extended Break and Wellness
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Baltimore Joy Jam
September 19
7:00am - 8:00am
Wellness
8:00am - 9:00am
Breakfast
9:00am - 10:30am
Breakout Sessions
10:30am - 11:00am
Break and Mini-Wellness
11:00am - 12:30pm
Breakout Sessions
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Closing Plenary Luncheon
2025 Call for Ideas
Welcome to Beyond Impact 2025, the largest strategy and learning space designed to strengthen the advocacy infrastructure for progressive movements working toward community-driven equity and policy. Our mission goes beyond envisioning change; we are committed to aligning organizational practices, visions, and resources to create sustainable platforms for Black, Brown, and allies' advocacy.
In this moment, we are asking ourselves the hard questions- reevaluating the strategies and interrogating our hypothesis for what it takes to build a multi-racial democracy that centers liberation, equity, justice, and radical joy. We are coming together to ignite the power of collective action in the face of an attempted recoil to the injustices of old to ask ourselves, not “What now?” but “What’s next”? And what are we willing to do to achieve it?
Learn more and Submit Your Idea!
