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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
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.
Built Different: A Prayer for Endurance
Posted on December 15, 2025
A Poem by S. Gray
This affirmation is something I wrote for myself first — a personal grounding, a quiet prayer borne out of an ongoing season of grief. In a world that keeps demanding more than any one person should have to hold, I needed language that could meet me where I actually was: tired, stretched, hopeful, hurting, determined, and still every bit the woman who keeps getting back up.
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.