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Join a community of changemakers working to build a more just, equitable and sustainable world.
*Connect with practitioners like you locally and around the country*
*Gain skills to help you advance in your career*
*Advance change you believe in, at work and beyond*
MEMBER BENEFITS
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Event Benefits
Discount to EPIP National Conference
Scholarship Eligibility for EPIP National Events
Complimentary/Discounted Attendance to EPIP Chapter Events
Leadership Development Benefits
Host EPIP Webinars
Post Blogs to EPIP Website
Facilitate Conference Workshops
Gain Access to Volunteer Opportunities
Collaborative Benefits
Access a National Network of Changemakers
Get Involved in the Broader Field through our Partnerships
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Why Join Us?
We develop and deliver unique and valuable programming that builds the leadership skills and knowledge base of emerging foundation professionals. We provide formal and informal career coaching, professional development, and other boosters for your career. We connect you with other EPIP members working across the field of philanthropy and nonprofits. We dissolve the boundaries that can make it difficult to start careers in philanthropy and grow within them.
OUR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
For over twenty years, EPIP has been a place for emerging leaders to learn, grow and advance.
Today, the needs of our members and the times we live in call upon us to elevate our vision.
Our strategic framework does just that.
Through this framework, we:
Professional and Leadership Development
Develop Whole Leaders
We deepen our work to develop our members not just as skilled professionals, but also as whole people and complete change agents.
Advocacy and Influence
Advocate and Innovate
We promote innovation and effective practices -- and when necessary speak hard truths -- to support the success of our members and other diverse changemakers
Collective Leadershipf
Lead for Equity
We will work as part of a broader movement to advance equity in and through philanthropy
The EPIP Blog
Featured Posts
EPIP LA | 2026 Mentorship Program – Applications open now!
Posted on June 01, 2026
Calling all potential mentees! EPIP Los Angeles is making it easier for you to enhance your professional development under the guidance of skilled mentors from the philanthropic field. Now in its thirteenth year, EPIP LA’s Mentorship Program has helped 100+ early to mid-career EPIP members find great mentors, and you could be next!
The EPIP LA Mentorship Program aims to provide participants with the tools needed to seek out and maintain meaningful connections with experienced leaders in the social sector. Participants also build peer-to-peer relationships with one another in a cohort of 3-4 people. The program focuses on deepening both types of interactions to enhance professional and personal competence while also opening up new areas of interest for participants.
Through an application and interview process, 8-10 individuals will be selected to join the 2026 cohort. If you are a paid member of EPIP and are interested in exploring your career interests and building stronger relationships in the field, APPLY TO JOIN THE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM HERE!
Applications are due Friday, June 26th, 2026 at 5 pm PST.
What Our Committee Is Saying About EPIP2026
Posted on April 28, 2026
EPIP is lucky to have a dynamic crew of members serving on our volunteer conference planning committee. Representing the full spectrum of the philanthropic ecosystem, these members have been busy behind the scenes to help prepare EPIP2026.
Hear directly from our content sub-committee members about why they think you'll enjoy some of the breakout sessions featured at EPIP2026!
Renewal Is Not Retreat
Posted on January 28, 2026
Greetings, Community.
As we enter this new year, many of us are doing so in a season that already carries weight—intensified by a society under strain. Rising uncertainty, deepening inequities, and persistent threats to our collective well-being are shaping this moment. It holds fear, fatigue, anger, and grief—and a kind of low-grade vigilance that never fully turns off.
Through conversations with our members, I know that many of you are also carrying heaviness, exhaustion, and uncertainty. And I hear the quiet question underneath conversations across our field—across roles, titles, and years of experience alike:
How do we keep going when the ground keeps shifting beneath us?
Reflections from CHANGE Philanthropy’s 2025 UNITY Summit
Posted on December 15, 2025
For nearly a decade, CHANGE Philanthropy’s UNITY Summit has been a vital gathering for funders, organizers, and community leaders dedicated to building a more just and liberated future. EPIP staff, scholarship recipients, and community members have participated in many of these Summits, and while each year leaves a lasting impact, this year felt especially powerful.