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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
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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 FRAMEWORK
Emergent leaders already have the skills and the drive. What they need is support to build power and organize for a just and equitable sector. Our framework is our organization’s mission and values in action.
In practice, we:
Professional and Leadership Development
Strengthen emergent leaders.
We build the skill, practice, and staying power of people in every seat, at every stage.
Advocacy and Influence
Grow collective power.
We bring practitioners together so no one does this work alone, and the field can act as one.
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Organize to change philanthropy.
We work within institutions and across the sector, naming hard truths and moving resources and power back to the communities from which philanthropy has extracted them.
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 Sunday, July 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.