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Equity Forward Conference 2025
2025-03-20 | UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA, 02125, United States
The waitlist for Equity Forward is now closed. If you have already signed up, you will receive an email from our team soon of whether you have secured a spot at the conference.
Over our 65-year history, we’ve met immeasurable challenges and successes as we’ve committed to building a more equitable and just world. Our work across the nonprofit sector has the power to transform what’s possible for all, yet this work is even greater in community.
Join us for a one-day conference commemorating our 65th anniversary with a focus on co-creating a movement towards building equity.
Through learning with our partners, allies, and advocates, we can activate programs, systems, policies and more to change lives and communities. From practice, idea-generation, implementation and more; we’re convening passionate leaders to learn and grow as equity-driven nonprofit practitioners.

Join passionate leaders for a day of programming focused on building an equitable world across all parts of the nonprofit sector. In addition to plenary sessions, we’ll host a series of workshops and practicum sessions across four tracks including:
Track 1: Leadership
Track 2: Advocacy as a Tool for Systems Change
Track 3: Resourcing an Equitable Nonprofit Sector
Track 4: Bending the Arc Toward Equity and Justice, Practicing What We Preach

Advanced Budget Management
2025-03-26 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix) | Virtual
Elevate your budget management skills with our Advanced Budget Management training tailored for nonprofit professionals. This training delves deeper into budgeting techniques, software utilization, and strategic alignment to empower you in steering your organization towards financial sustainability and growth.

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Learning Objectives
The training combines presentations, interactive discussions, and practical exercises to engage participants and reinforce learning. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, share experiences, and collaborate with peers. By the end of the training, participants will:

Gain advanced knowledge in budget management
Be equipped with practical tools and strategies to develop, monitor, and present budgets effectively within their nonprofit organizations
Be empowered to drive financial sustainability, align budgets with strategic priorities, and navigate the budgeting process with increased confidence

Target Audience
This session emphasizes practical application and best practices for individuals who are already proficient in introductory budget terminology and concepts.
About the Trainer
Maureen Miller has 20+ years’ experience in budget and financial management, and is committed to developing and continually enhancing financial systems that increase efficiencies and impact, while supporting organizations to achieve strategic fiscal goals.
Maureen offers CFO management and educational services focusing primarily on trainings, financial assessment, and budget and financial management, with the ultimate goal of reducing client’s fear of financials (FOF). She does this by supporting, coaching, and educating clients on how to map out an effective plan to create, understand, and manage their organization’s financial goals and metrics.
Maureen’s background includes 12 years as Finance & Administrative Director at a statewide nonprofit, 16 years working with 3 different organizations (Sustainability Institute, Carsey School of Public Policy, and the Institute on Disability) within the University of New Hampshire system, and 7 years as a Financial Management Consultant for nonprofits and small businesses.

Introduction to Strategic Planning for Nonprofits
2025-04-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
This introductory training, Strategic Planning for Nonprofits, provides nonprofit leaders and stakeholders a foundation to approach and develop an effective strategic plan. Participants will explore key components of the strategic planning process, learn about the importance of assessing the internal and external environments by conducting a stakeholder analysis, as well as identifying strategic issues versus operational issues. Through interactive discussions, breakout sessions, and real-world case studies, attendees will gain the knowledge and tools necessary to initiate and sustain a strategic planning process that aligns with their organization’s mission and long-term goals.

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Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Initiate and agree upon a strategic planning process
Assess the internal and external environments using a SWOC and PEST analysis framework
Identify strategic issues facing the organization

Target Audience
Directors, Executive Directors, and Board Members new to strategic planning

About the Trainer
Dr. John D. Lloyd is an executive-level professional with 18+ years of leadership and management experience in strategy consulting and organizational development in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Dr. Lloyd has proven experience partnering with senior level executives, boards, and staff members on short-term and long-term organizational development objectives. Dr. Lloyd is currently serving as an Interim Executive Director for AsylumConnect, an international social advocacy and civic engagement nonprofit organization focusing on LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and members of the community. Prior to AsylumConnect, Dr. Lloyd served as Interim Executive Director, Boston Education Skills & Training (BEST), and Executive Director, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), two Boston based nonprofit organizations. Prior to serving as a nonprofit leader, Dr. Lloyd, co-founded and led Vanguard & Associates from 2009-2018, a strategy consulting practice focused on providing strategic planning and organizational development services in the nonprofit and private sectors. Engagements included conducting intake interviews, focus groups, analyzing client inputs, synthesizing conclusions, and developing recommendations for implementation. Dr. Lloyd is currently an adjunct faculty member at Boston University, Boston College, and Simmons University. He is also on the Board of Directors, African Economic and Community Development Foundation, serving as its Chair, Strategic Planning Committee. Dr. Lloyd holds an Ed.D. in Organizational Learning and Development from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Bentley University, and a BS from Plymouth State University. A native of Sharon, Massachusetts, John currently lives in Randolph with his wife, Dr. Wanda Montañez and their yorki-poo Cinco.

Rising to the Challenge: Leading with a Trauma-Inclusive Lens (Part 1)
2025-04-28 09:30 - 12:30 | Third Sector New England, Inc., 89 South Street Suite 700, Boston, 02111, United States
People managers are facing extraordinary challenges in this current moment. The threats to our work and the personal impact mean that people need even more support and the work requires constant strategic repositioning. It is absolutely essential that leaders understand the traumatic impact of our current socio-political landscape on ourselves and our teams. Having a lens of trauma inclusion will allow us to face these challenges with tools that allow us to care for ourselves and care for our colleagues. Participants will deepen their understanding of the impact of trauma on themselves as leaders, as well as their colleagues, and will learn principles that they can apply to support themselves and their colleagues to lead effectively through times of fear, stress, and trauma.

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Centering on Care during Crisis as Leaders Series Overview:
As leaders moving through this current political dystopia, people may be in a state of freeze (not knowing what to do and feeling stuck), fight (moving in urgent and reactive ways), flight (wanting to run from the challenges), or fawn (saying “yes” to please people and avoid conflict). This climate threatens our material reality (e.g., resources to do mission-driven work) and our physiological core, and can prevent us from leading from a place of equity and justice. How do we (better) center care for ourselves, organizational staff, and communities?
It is important to recenter, check in within ourselves, and to act on the value of care. How may we tend to fear, anxiety, confusion, or hopelessness through listening to our body and be attuned internally? Through settling ourselves first like the airplane phrase, “put on your oxygen mask first before assisting others,” we can then think more clearly, strategically, and thoughtfully about our work and our people. In order to lead well with care, we need to understand the causes and impacts of trauma and learn ways to hold and serve our organization and communities through a trauma-informed lens.

Learning Objectives

Participants will better understand:

Trauma and how it impacts the body and behavior in a work setting
Themselves and their own conscious and unconscious responses to trauma

Target Audience
Leaders, managers, and supervisors
After completing this workshop, participants are encouraged to attend Rising to the Challenge: Leading with a Trauma Inclusive Lens, Part 2.

About the Trainers
Rebecca Jackson is a clinically-trained social worker, facilitator, teacher, consultant, and coach. Her career began in a small Mattapan church where she served as pastor from 1999-2005. Her love for teaching, leading, and supporting communities of color soon led her to Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work where she began facilitating dialogue around issues of race and identity in clinical work, which she has continued to do in organizations. Rebecca completed her MSW in 2009, and focused on young people and families who have experienced trauma in her clinical work. She worked in a variety of community-based settings as a clinician and soon began to use her pastoral experience in the classroom and other settings. Rebecca continues her teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Boston College School of Social Work, and Bridgewater State University School of Social Work. Through LoveSeed, Rebecca applies her decades of leadership and teaching experience in supporting mission-driven organizations to strengthen their equity practices, internally and externally. Rebecca creates spaces where people can have difficult but necessary conversations to learn, grow, and thrive. She builds sustainable and brave leaders, teams, and organizations that bring their equity values to life.

Generative Conflict
2025-05-02 10:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Conflict is a natural part of all relational dynamics: we all arrive in relationships with different needs, beliefs, expectations, commitments, values, and ideas. Conflict is inevitable as all these differences will inevitably rub up against each other. Instead of avoiding conflict we have the ability to approach it as an opportunity for growth, change, and expansion.
Generative Conflict (GC) is a set of values and practices that encourage us to engage in conflict in more skillful ways, prioritizing harm reduction. By fostering deeper connections between those involved rather than ruptures, we can work towards more equitable resolutions to issues. This way of approaching conflict is a radical view to building new ways of relating to each other when these unavoidable conflicts occur.
In this workshop, we will learn about how our own narratives around conflict shape our internal beliefs and behavioral patterns, and talk about strategies to rework these individually and in our groups. We will use popular education exercises to explore ways of relating to one another during activating dialogue. By working towards healing our own relationship with conflict, we will build comfort and skills around more adaptive approaches to conflict with others.

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Learning Objectives
Participants will better understand:

Where do we learn about conflict? What are our beliefs and patterns, and how does this shape how we show up in conflict?

Build social/emotional intelligence about the self and others in conflict
Build awareness of power structures that impact conflict dynamics
Develop tools to address these dynamics and patterns

How does conflict show up in the physical body and how does that impact how we “do” conflict?

Somatics exercises and tools

What makes conflict go poorly? What makes conflict go well?

Dialogue including circle-work and breakout groups

Deduce the principles of generative conflict. Practice these techniques using:

Real-time popular education exercises
Breakout dialogue groups
Circle-work

Develop applications of GC, and how to apply this within their relationships, collectives, and specifically the NFP setting.

Target Audience
All nonprofit professionals! Conflict is unavoidable and using the principles and tools of generative conflict, it is actually necessary and desirable to engage skillfully in conflict for relational growth and adaptable solutions.

About the Trainer
Anna-Maria D’Cruz is a life-long learner, mother, clinical psychologist, coach, facilitator and consultant. She co-creates relational spaces with her clients that support them in growing into more expansive and just relationships with themselves and others. She works from a holistic approach that sees individuals within the systems in which they interact. Her intention is for equitable, integrated healing for individuals and their communities. Her practice is decolonial and trauma-informed: by recognizing the systems that perpetuate harm to individuals and communities, and actively striving to dismantle those in order to heal and be whole.
Anna-Maria centers the idea that by building better relationships with ourselves and those around us, it helps us build stronger collectives. In her facilitation work, she focuses on supporting collectives to develop these values, fostering skills in the areas of relational health, intentional community building, and conflict resolution.

Adaptive Supervision
2025-05-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Building a foundation of trust and respect with your staff is essential to your supervisory effectiveness. Whether new to the role or coming with a wealth of experience, supervisors must tap into self-awareness, understanding differences in their staff and practice adapting their style and communication. Using these practices, a supervisor creates a culture of mutual respect — one in which employees and supervisors communicate regularly and clearly about job-related expectations, tasks, and overall performance, leading to greater engagement, satisfaction, and mission impact.

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Learning Objectives
Through this 120-minute session on adaptive supervision, participants will:

Review and reflect on the importance and breadth of the supervisory role in diverse and equitable organizations
Identify their preferred supervisory style
Learn how to identify what individual staff need around various aspects of their jobs and their particular strengths and challenges
Understand the importance of adapting their supervisory approach and communication style in support of staff success, and how to put that into practice

Target Audience
Supervisors with all levels of experience, from emerging supervisors to those with many years of experience.

About the Trainers
Joanne Horgan is a human resources consultant and lead trainer for TSNE. She has worked at TSNE since 1993, serving many roles in the organization’s human resources practice over the years. Joanne has directed the internal HR function and led the HR team in its delivery of services to over 60 fiscally sponsored clients. She has also been providing HR consulting and training for small to mid-sized grassroots, social justice, and other mission-focused nonprofits for over 20 years. Joanne holds a B.A. in organizational psychology and an M.S. in human resources counseling from Northeastern University.
Lyn Freundlich is the founder and principal consultant at Change for Good Coaching and Consulting. She specializes in leadership development, human resources, and change management as a coach, facilitator, trainer, and consultant. She considers employees an organization’s greatest asset and believes that people choose to work in nonprofits not simply to make a living but to make a difference. As a practitioner, Lyn understands that the human resources function served to protect organizations by ensuring compliance with a host of employment regulations but also to support employees’ effectiveness. She believes that a well-functioning organization walks their talk by treating staff in ways that promote equity and are consistent with their mission and vision. Lyn has over 30 years of experience in the nonprofit sector working in a range of settings from large, international organizations to small, member-driven, local groups. Most recently she served as the director of administration and human resources for over fifteen years. In 2005, Lyn also launched the human resources training and consulting practice at TSNE. In that capacity, she partnered with hundreds of local and national nonprofits to build human resources systems reflective of each organization’s vision and values, train and support supervisors and other leaders, and provide employee relations coaching and consultation. Lyn is a seasoned trainer, coach, and consultant serving dozens of clients each year. She has a B.A. from Oberlin College and a master’s in organization and management from Antioch University of New England. Lyn is also a Certified Professional Coach. She is proud to have served on numerous boards, including with The City School, a Boston-based nonprofit working with young people across lines of race, class, gender, and neighborhood who are emerging leaders and have a passion for social justice. She also sits on the board of Onward!, a new organization using innovative solutions that harness the power of technology to bring about systems-level change and build power in our most marginalized communities.

Building Supervisor-Staff Relationships Through Communication
2025-05-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Communication is the key to most successful relationships; the supervisor-staff relationship is no exception. Understanding each other and engaging in feedback conversations with intention, adaptability, and self-awareness is critical in building trusting and productive work relationships.
Effective supervisors, whether new to the role or coming with an abundance of experience, tap into self-awareness, are adaptive, and leverage a range of interpersonal skills. Using these practices, a supervisor creates a culture of mutual respect — one in which employees and supervisors communicate regularly and clearly about job-related expectations, tasks, and overall performance.

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Learning Objectives
Through this 120-minute interactive session on effective supervisory communication, participants will:

Reflect on their own feedback experiences
Understand the importance of soliciting feedback and learn approaches to building this into their supervisory practice
Discover the barriers to receiving constructive feedback and ways to manage reactions which support your effectiveness as a supervisor
Explore the conditions that make giving feedback valuable and practice adaptive approaches to providing constructive and positive feedback

Target Audience
If you’re a supervisor with any level of experience, this training is for you.
About the Trainers
Joanne Horgan is a human resources consultant and lead trainer for TSNE. She has worked at TSNE since 1993, serving many roles in the organization’s human resources practice over the years. Joanne has directed the internal HR function and led the HR team in its delivery of services to over 60 fiscally sponsored clients. She has also been providing HR consulting and training for small to mid-sized grassroots, social justice, and other mission-focused nonprofits for over 20 years. Joanne holds a B.A. in organizational psychology and an M.S. in human resources counseling from Northeastern University.
Lyn Freundlich is the founder and principal consultant at Change for Good Coaching and Consulting. She specializes in leadership development, human resources, and change management as a coach, facilitator, trainer, and consultant. She considers employees an organization’s greatest asset and believes that people choose to work in nonprofits not simply to make a living but to make a difference. As a practitioner, Lyn understands that the human resources function served to protect organizations by ensuring compliance with a host of employment regulations but also to support employees’ effectiveness. She believes that a well-functioning organization walks their talk by treating staff in ways that promote equity and are consistent with their mission and vision. Lyn has over 30 years of experience in the nonprofit sector working in a range of settings from large, international organizations to small, member-driven, local groups. Most recently she served as the director of administration and human resources for over fifteen years. In 2005, Lyn also launched the human resources training and consulting practice at TSNE. In that capacity, she partnered with hundreds of local and national nonprofits to build human resources systems reflective of each organization’s vision and values, train and support supervisors and other leaders, and provide employee relations coaching and consultation. Lyn is a seasoned trainer, coach, and consultant serving dozens of clients each year. She has a B.A. from Oberlin College and a master’s in organization and management from Antioch University of New England. Lyn is also a Certified Professional Coach. She is proud to have served on numerous boards, including with The City School, a Boston-based nonprofit working with young people across lines of race, class, gender, and neighborhood who are emerging leaders and have a passion for social justice. She also sits on the board of Onward!, a new organization using innovative solutions that harness the power of technology to bring about systems-level change and build power in our most marginalized communities.

Strategic Planning for Nonprofits: Putting It All into Practice
2025-05-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
In this training, Strategic Planning for Nonprofits: Putting It All into Practice, participants will move beyond the foundation of the strategic planning process by exploring how to define and address strategic issues, formulate strategies to address issues, develop an effective implementation process, and institute evaluation metrics of the strategic plan. Through interactive discussions, breakout sessions, and real-world applications, nonprofit leaders will gain practical tools to create and sustain impactful strategic plans.
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Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

Identify strategic issues versus operations issues
Formulate strategies to address the strategic issues
Develop guidelines for an effective implementation process
Institute evaluation metrics to assess and modify the strategic plan

Target Audience
Directors, Executive Directors, and Board Members who have some prior experience understanding and conducting strategic planning

About the Presenter
Dr. John D. Lloyd is an executive-level professional with 18+ years of leadership and management experience in strategy consulting and organizational development in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Dr. Lloyd has proven experience partnering with senior level executives, boards, and staff members on short-term and long-term organizational development objectives. Dr. Lloyd is currently serving as an Interim Executive Director for AsylumConnect, an international social advocacy and civic engagement nonprofit organization focusing on LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and members of the community. Prior to AsylumConnect, Dr. Lloyd served as Interim Executive Director, Boston Education Skills & Training (BEST), and Executive Director, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), two Boston based nonprofit organizations. Prior to serving as a nonprofit leader, Dr. Lloyd, co-founded and led Vanguard & Associates from 2009-2018, a strategy consulting practice focused on providing strategic planning and organizational development services in the nonprofit and private sectors. Engagements included conducting intake interviews, focus groups, analyzing client inputs, synthesizing conclusions, and developing recommendations for implementation. Dr. Lloyd is currently an adjunct faculty member at Boston University, Boston College, and Simmons University. He is also on the Board of Directors, African Economic and Community Development Foundation, serving as its Chair, Strategic Planning Committee. Dr. Lloyd holds an Ed.D. in Organizational Learning and Development, University of Pennsylvania, an MBA, Bentley University and BS, Plymouth State University. A native of Sharon, Massachusetts, John currently lives in Randolph with his wife, Dr. Wanda Montañez and their yorki-poo Cinco.

Effective Supervision, Part 1
2025-05-20 09:30 - 16:30 | Third Sector New England, Inc., 89 South Street Suite 700, Boston, 02111, United States
Effective supervision contributes directly to mission effectiveness at your nonprofit. It is critical to maintaining a productive staff in the face of shifting and competing priorities. Strong supervision creates a culture of mutual respect in which employees and supervisors communicate regularly and clearly about job-related expectations, tasks, and overall performance. This highly participatory training is designed for supervisors with all levels of experience.

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Learning Objectives
Supervisors will:

Identify your preferred supervisory style
Learn to recognize what supervisory approaches are most effective under different conditions
Consider when to adapt your style and practice doing so
Strengthen a variety of critical forms of supervisory communication

Target Audience
Supervisors with all levels of experience. This is a great training for first-timers who are looking for a foundation, as well as seasoned managers looking to spice up their supervision.
After completing this session, participants are invited and encouraged to attend Effective Supervision, Part 2!

About the Trainers
Joanne Horgan is a human resources consultant and lead trainer for TSNE. She has worked at TSNE since 1993, serving many roles in the organization’s human resources practice over the years. Joanne has directed the internal HR function and led the HR team in its delivery of services to over 60 fiscally sponsored clients. She has also been providing HR consulting and training for small to mid-sized grassroots, social justice, and other mission-focused nonprofits for over 20 years. Joanne holds a B.A. in organizational psychology and an M.S. in human resources counseling from Northeastern University.
Lyn Freundlich is the founder and principal consultant at Change for Good Coaching and Consulting. She specializes in leadership development, human resources, and change management as a coach, facilitator, trainer, and consultant. She considers employees an organization’s greatest asset and believes that people choose to work in nonprofits not simply to make a living but to make a difference. As a practitioner, Lyn understands that the human resources function served to protect organizations by ensuring compliance with a host of employment regulations but also to support employees’ effectiveness. She believes that a well-functioning organization walks their talk by treating staff in ways that promote equity and are consistent with their mission and vision. Lyn has over 30 years of experience in the nonprofit sector working in a range of settings from large, international organizations to small, member-driven, local groups. Most recently she served as the director of administration and human resources for over fifteen years. In 2005, Lyn also launched the human resources training and consulting practice at TSNE. In that capacity, she partnered with hundreds of local and national nonprofits to build human resources systems reflective of each organization’s vision and values, train and support supervisors and other leaders, and provide employee relations coaching and consultation. Lyn is a seasoned trainer, coach, and consultant serving dozens of clients each year. She has a B.A. from Oberlin College and a master’s in organization and management from Antioch University of New England. Lyn is also a Certified Professional Coach. She is proud to have served on numerous boards, including with The City School, a Boston-based nonprofit working with young people across lines of race, class, gender, and neighborhood who are emerging leaders and have a passion for social justice. She also sits on the board of Onward!, a new organization using innovative solutions that harness the power of technology to bring about systems-level change and build power in our most marginalized communities.

Resourcing from Within: An Introductory Somatics Workshop
2025-06-02 09:30 - 12:30 | Third Sector New England, Inc., 89 South Street Suite 700, Boston, 02111, United States
As sensing beings, we are constantly scanning for safety. In this unfolding political moment, many of us feel an overwhelming sense of fear, anxiety, and exhaustion, making it harder to stay grounded.
You may have relied on familiar coping strategies—some helpful, others less so—only to find yourself longing for a deeper sense of relief. Now, more than ever, it is essential to attune to what is emerging within us.
In this dynamic and experiential workshop, D. Farai Williams will guide you in recognizing the coping patterns you’ve embodied and introduce practical somatic practices to reset your nervous system. By resourcing from within, you can cultivate greater resilience, skillfully navigate stress, and lead with more clarity and care.

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Centering on Care during Crisis as Leaders Series Overview:
As leaders moving through this current political dystopia, people may be in a state of freeze (not knowing what to do and feeling stuck), fight (moving in urgent and reactive ways), flight (wanting to run from the challenges), or fawn (saying “yes” to please people and avoid conflict). This climate threatens our material reality (e.g., resources to do mission-driven work) and our physiological core, and can prevent us from leading from a place of equity and justice. How do we (better) center care for ourselves, organizational staff, and communities?
It is important to recenter, check in within ourselves, and to act on the value of care. How may we tend to fear, anxiety, confusion, or hopelessness through listening to our body and be attuned internally? Through settling ourselves first like the airplane phrase, “put on your oxygen mask first before assisting others,” we can then think more clearly, strategically, and thoughtfully about our work and our people. In order to lead well with care, we need to understand the causes and impacts of trauma and learn ways to hold and serve our organization and communities through a trauma-informed lens.

Learning Objectives

In this workshop, you will gain:

An understanding of the intuitive wisdom of the body
The skill of somatic awareness to purposefully regulate your nervous system
Space to investigate what matters most to you in this time of change
New strategies to build resilience and navigate uncertainty

Target Audience
BIPOC leaders and managers

About the Trainer
D. Farai Williams (she/her) is a trailblazer at the intersection of embodiment, leadership, and equity. As a teacher at the Strozzi Institute for Somatics and a dynamic Somatic Muse, she brings a deep, body-centered approach to transformation. Through her work as an Embodied Equity Leadership Coach, Facilitator, and Teacher at Dynamizing Equity, Farai guides individuals and organizations toward powerful, lasting change—one breath, one movement, one breakthrough at a time.
With an unique ability to weave somatic wisdom into leadership and social justice, Farai doesn’t just teach—she ignites transformation from the inside out. Her approach helps clients:

Feel more connected to themselves and others
Access greater choice under pressure
Heal traces of trauma through a body-based approach
Communicate more effectively
Develop and practice healthy boundaries in relationships

Farai’s work is an invitation to lead with presence, resilience, and deep alignment—rooted in the wisdom of the body.

“Until We’re All Free”: A Snapshot of the DEIB for Consultants Program
2025-06-03 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Our collective work around how we understand and challenge the root causes of inequities never stops until we all are free. While society, from the federal government to corporations, may be divesting from and devaluing group efforts to make organizations and institutions more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, we continue on sharpening our critical thinking and building out our toolbox of strategies and approaches. It is imperative that we do this work in community and collectively.
Join us in experiencing what it would be like to be part of our “DEIB for Consultants” program this Fall 2025 and learn more about the program. The program builds a learning community among consultants to sharpen their knowledge and skills to be better shepherds of equity within their work.

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Learning Objectives
Participants will:

Experience a sample of a facilitated learning space for consultants to sharpen your critical thinking and consulting approaches
Engage with an equity-based framework and reflect on ways to deepen your knowledge and consulting strategies
Be in community with potential thought partners and collaborators around the commitment for equity and justice

Target Audience

Consultants who:

Are committed to shepherding people and organizations around equitable processes and practices
Are searching for a learning community to deepen their knowledge and grow together as practitioners for equity and justice
Have experience in racial equity learning (e.g., have engaged with reflection on their racial identity and position in the racial hierarchy in our society) and commitment to ongoing learning and action

About the Trainers
Carro (pronounced “car-row”) Hứa is the manager of cohort learning at TSNE. As a social justice based educator, she is committed to building and deepening the critical consciousness of People of Color, and building worker solidarity for collective liberation. For over a decade she has taught social justice education in different capacities, including teaching ethnic studies to young people, facilitating workshops on anti-oppression learning, and supporting organizations with their staff development on equity-centered thinking and practices. Her professional journey consists of being an associate director of organizational equity practice at Trinity Boston Connects, learning and development manager at City Year Boston, assistant youth program director at the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, and teacher-intern at Breakthrough Collaborative and Steppingstone. Born and raised in Dorchester, Boston to refugee parents from Việt Nam, she is a Boston Public Schools and Smith College alum.
Brianna Boggs is an independent coach and consultant focused on supporting executives and boards of directors through leadership challenges. Her practice has particular focus on executive coaching for mission-driven leaders, racial justice education, and fundraising for social justice work. Through her work she helps white leaders develop skills to push their organizations to deeper engagement in issues of race and equity, internally and externally. Her background is as a fundraiser for missions including LGBTQ legal rights, abortion access, and positive youth development.

Effective Supervision, Part 2
2025-06-12 09:30 - 16:30 | Third Sector New England, Inc., 89 South Street Suite 700, Boston, 02111, United States
Participants must have taken Effective Supervision, Part 1 (offered in the Spring 2025 series on April 17 or May 20) as a prerequisite for this training.
Successful supervisors start with curiosity and awareness of their own supervisory and communication style, as well as their particular cultural lens. By expanding their view and skillfully shifting these default approaches, they can more fully develop staff and maximize performance.

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Learning Objectives

This highly participatory and reflective training takes a deeper look at concepts discussed in TSNE’s Effective Supervision, Part 1. Participants will:

Review the four supervisory styles and reflect on ways that adaptive practice has improved and challenged supervisory relationships
Consider approaches to decision-making as they relate to staff readiness
Deepen their practice of relationship-building communication skills
Consider a model of staff performance management and engage in adaptive feedback and communication to address performance issues at all levels

Come prepared to actively participate!

Target Audience
Supervisors who have participated in TSNE’s Effective Supervision, Part 1 training and wish to deepen their adaptive practice.

About the Trainers
Joanne Horgan is a human resources consultant and lead trainer for TSNE. She has worked at TSNE since 1993, serving many roles in the organization’s human resources practice over the years. Joanne has directed the internal HR function and led the HR team in its delivery of services to over 60 fiscally sponsored clients. She has also been providing HR consulting and training for small to mid-sized grassroots, social justice, and other mission-focused nonprofits for over 20 years. Joanne holds a B.A. in organizational psychology and an M.S. in human resources counseling from Northeastern University.
Lyn Freundlich is the founder and principal consultant at Change for Good Coaching and Consulting. She specializes in leadership development, human resources, and change management as a coach, facilitator, trainer, and consultant. She considers employees an organization’s greatest asset and believes that people choose to work in nonprofits not simply to make a living but to make a difference. As a practitioner, Lyn understands that the human resources function served to protect organizations by ensuring compliance with a host of employment regulations but also to support employees’ effectiveness. She believes that a well-functioning organization walks their talk by treating staff in ways that promote equity and are consistent with their mission and vision. Lyn has over 30 years of experience in the nonprofit sector working in a range of settings from large, international organizations to small, member-driven, local groups. Most recently she served as the director of administration and human resources for over fifteen years. In 2005, Lyn also launched the human resources training and consulting practice at TSNE. In that capacity, she partnered with hundreds of local and national nonprofits to build human resources systems reflective of each organization’s vision and values, train and support supervisors and other leaders, and provide employee relations coaching and consultation. Lyn is a seasoned trainer, coach, and consultant serving dozens of clients each year. She has a B.A. from Oberlin College and a master’s in organization and management from Antioch University of New England. Lyn is also a Certified Professional Coach. She is proud to have served on numerous boards, including with The City School, a Boston-based nonprofit working with young people across lines of race, class, gender, and neighborhood who are emerging leaders and have a passion for social justice. She also sits on the board of Onward!, a new organization using innovative solutions that harness the power of technology to bring about systems-level change and build power in our most marginalized communities.
