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Don't miss your opportunity for affordable professional development at the 15th annual Nonprofit Leadership Conference - drurynlc.org

📣 Our experts in Finance & Operations!

Don't miss your opportunity for affordable professional development at the 15th annual Nonprofit Leadership Conference - drurynlc.org

Speaker Spotlight - Biran Dunn, our fantastic Keynote Speaker

Nonprofit leadership (and we’re all leaders) is full of important, difficult work. Setting boundaries that disappoint people. Making decisions with incomplete information. Protecting the mission when everything pushes toward creep. Holding steady for others when you’re all on shaky ground. These moments aren’t interruptions to the work.

They are the work.

Too many of us burn out or begin to doubt ourselves not because we’re doing something wrong, but because no one ever told us that this is what leadership actually feels like.

Nonprofit leadership is taxing. Nonprofit leadership is complex. Nonprofit leadership is bowling‑shoe ugly.

This is a plainspoken look at what it means to lead under constant pressure and high stakes. Grounded in real nonprofit experience, it names what most of us carry but rarely say out loud and shows how to stay clear, steady, and aligned when the job piles on.

This isn’t a set of easy answers. It’s something more useful:

A clearer way to see what’s actually happening in hard moments
A stronger sense of what matters when pressure builds
And a renewed confidence that the difficulty you’re carrying is not a sign you’re failing. It’s a sign you’re doing the work that matters
Because the goal isn’t to make leadership easier. The goal is to lead well anyway.

Thank you, , for serving as a Corporate Exhibitor for the 2026 Nonprofit Leadership Conference!

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Thank you, Paylocity, for serving as a Corporate Exhibitor for the 2026 Nonprofit Leadership Conference!

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👏🏻 Let's hear it for our sponsors who have made this conference possible! to all of these businesses who have showed their support of the community. drurynlc.org

Affordable professional development for nonprofit employees. Join us for the 15th annual Nonprofit Leadership Conference - Time-Tested. Future-Focused.

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🎟 Group of 5 or more - $100
🎟 General Ticket - $130
🎟 Drury Staff, Faculty, & Students - $65

Thank you, Partner for Better, for serving as a Corporate Exhibitor for the 2026 Nonprofit Leadership Conference!

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Thank you, Office Environments, for serving as a Corporate Exhibitor for the 2026 Nonprofit Leadership Conference!

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