PASE Network News

The National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) has long invested in Program Quality and Partnerships through webinars, national conferences, professional development, and tools. They have more recently expanded their efforts to empower and equip more programs at all stages of development and create deeper partnerships through the creation of Professional Learning Communities (PLC). These free PLCs are planned, led, and facilitated by NSLA program staff alongside a skilled expert from the NSLA network. Topics include: libraries and literacy, youth workforce development and internships, arts education, and much more. Each PLC regularly convenes and trains youth development staff across the country, and holds quarterly training meetings on key topics affecting youth. Learn more about the PLCs via their website. 

Georgetown University’s Thrive Center for Children, Families, & Communities encourages startups and nonprofits focused on child and family health that are hoping to scale their impact to apply for the Innovation Hub @Thrive Center fellowship. This three-month fellowship is powered by the Thrive Center’s experts and connections, and is designed to support innovators with: validating and proving their intervention model; developing their implementation strategies for scaling; honing their pitch to customers and partners, and making introductions to key decision-makers in health systems, plans, payers, and government organizations. Over 12 weeks, fellows embark on the Validation and Implementation & Distribution Tracks, rapidly scaling their impact, powered by the Thrive network of relationships and collective knowledge. By the culminating Solutions Fair, fellows walk away with clarity, connections, credibility, and confidence. Learn more and apply by June 8, 2026 for the Fall 2026 fellowship. 

On June 11, 2026 at 12:00PM, the Institute for Nonprofit Practice will welcome Shawn Dove–acclaimed visionary, organizer, and co-author of I Too Am America: On Loving and Leading Black Men & Boys–to their Leadership Learning Series for a session entitled “Leading Across Systems: Lessons in Partnership & Community Impact.” Shawn is a trailblazer who co-curates New Profit’s efforts to bring together a multiracial, intergenerational, cross-sector coalition pursuing a new era of justice, opportunity, trust, and collaboration in America. Many in the PASE Network may know Shawn from his 2024 PASE Conference Keynote, as well as from his work spearheading the Campaign for Black Male Achievement or his role as key advisor for President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. Shawn's insights will be more than a mere lecture; they will offer an inspirational, interactive masterclass on the craft of movement building and resource mobilization for the greater good. You’ll discover how to develop genuine cross-sector partnerships that spur lasting community impact. Save your spot via Zoom.  

Join Youth MOVE National on May 20, 2026 from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM for Unpacking & Reclaiming the Transition to ‘Adulthood,’ an interactive webinar exploring what “adulthood” means and how young people can reclaim that transition on their own terms. This session will create space to reflect on societal expectations, identity, lived experience, and the many factors that shape the transition into adulthood. Through guided discussion, reflection activities, and peer engagement, participants will explore what it means to move beyond traditional definitions and reconnect with authenticity, joy, and self-determination. Participants will have opportunities to engage through live polls, chat discussions, and breakout conversations. Save your spot via the Zoom registration. 

Join Pockets Change on May 27, 2026 from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM for their workshop, Art for Our Nervous Systems, a space for practitioners and program leaders to slow down, make art, and reconnect with why we do this work. The session will explore grounding practices that support the emotional labor of teaching financial resilience and Hip-Hop–based learning. Together, participants will explore activities for building community and personal capacity through creative arts and interpersonal neurobiology. Participants will leave the session with community connections, new strategies for collective care, and curriculum for financial education and educator mental well-being. This session is supported by the Coalition of Youth Development Intermediaries. Save your spot and share more about what you hope to take away from the session via their registration form.