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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
Taking a Breath: A Message from Storme Gray
Posted on May 06, 2025
Dear EPIP Community,
This year, EPIP celebrates 25 years of cultivating leadership, building community, and advancing equity in philanthropy. As we look ahead to the unveiling of our new strategic framework later this year, I find myself reflecting not only on what we’ve accomplished together, but how we’ve chosen to lead.
For nearly a decade, I’ve had the privilege of serving EPIP—as a member, chapter leader, board member, Director of Programs, and now President and CEO. Through every chapter of this journey, I’ve carried a deep belief in the power of emerging leaders to transform our sector—and in the responsibility of organizations like ours to lead by example.
Beginning May 1, I will step away from my role for a two-month sabbatical, returning with intention in July.
EPIP LA | 2025 Mentorship Program – Applications open now!
Posted on February 05, 2025
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 twelfth year, EPIP LA’s Mentorship Program has helped countless early to mid-career EPIP members find great mentors, and you could be next!
The EPIP LA Mentorship Program aims to foster meaningful connections with experienced leaders in the social sector. We emphasize both the peer-to-peer relationships participants build with one another, as well as the relationship each participant builds with their mentor. 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 review process, 5 to 8 individuals will be selected to join the 2025 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 HERE!
The application deadline is February 28th, 2025.
Our Takeaways From EPIP 2024
Posted on July 25, 2024
EPIP Boston Steering Committee member Grace Savage Loughborough and EPIP Boston co-chair Candace Burton talk about their takeaways from the EPIP 2024 Conference
A Look Ahead to EPIP 2024: Reconnect, Revive and Rise
Posted on April 18, 2024
As spring arrives, we’re getting excited to be even closer to welcoming our community to New Orleans for EPIP 2024: Reconnect, Revive and Rise! Registration is open, you’ve met our conference planning committee, and we’ve now released our full conference agenda.