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Hi there,

Ready to connect with your community this season? When I read that there’s an epidemic of loneliness, I find it hard to believe because in our world, eMerge Americas is uniting hundreds of innovative folks together as your read this, the Center for Black Innovation is co-hosting a Fuckup Night next week where folks will share and learn vulnerably, and more than 120 organizations are ready to host you at 30+ different events during this year’s 10 Days of Connection from May 1 to May 10.

To top it all off, dozens of funders and community partners are investing their financial and in-kind resources to bring you closer to Miami and vice versa.

Scroll down, choose your own adventure, register accordingly, and prepare to have the time of your life this connection season. We will be all over the county learning new perspectives, connecting across lines of difference, highlighting different organizations, and scheming on how to keep making communities stronger.

See you out there,

Joan M. Godoy

CEO

ENGAGE WITH OUR LOCAL ECOSYSTEM

Get ready! We’re excited to lead the way for the Fuckup Nights Miami Chapter for another year! Fuckup Nights is a global community and event series that shares stories of professional failure. Each month, in events across +200 cities and 65 countries, we get a couple of speakers to get up in front of a room full of strangers to share their own professional fuckup. The stories of the business that crashes and burns, the partnership deal that goes sour, the product that has to be recalled, we tell them all.

Picture this:

You’re in Miami and some of the sharpest innovation leaders step onto the stage, one by one, sharing the most epic crashes of their careers. The most innovative move isn’t avoiding failure, it’s actually failing fast and learning immediately so you can change directions! In this special edition, founders, creators, and risk-takers are sharing the stories that don’t make it to the highlight reel.

For this edition, we’re proud to co-host alongside the Center for Black Innovation as we gather our community for another unforgettable night of bold lessons, real talk, and collective growth.

10 DAYS OF CONNECTION

Join us for the 10th year of 10 Days of Connection!

10 Days of Connection exists to build bridges and weave diverse communities. This movement invests in the transformative power of curated gatherings, large and small, to burst bubbles, foster trust, and dispel divisive beliefs that lead to conflict and other consequences. We call these Connection Experiences!

For 10 days (May 1–May 10), we invite YOU to join us to build safer, more connected, united, active, and prosperous communities.

Whether you join us for a panel conversation, yoga class, or breaking bread, we’d love to have you in it!

To learn more about the movement, visit: www.10daysofconnection.org.
To register for more than 30 Connection Experiences, visit: events.10daysofconnection.org.

Here are two of our favorites where we’d love to see you:

1. May 1st. The Longest Table at The Underline: Join us for a massive community potluck (on Friday, May 1) as we kick off the 10 Days of Connection at The Underline! At The Longest Table, we will gather for an evening of shared food, honest conversation, and collective energy. Come with friends or come solo; either way, you belong here!

RSVP by April 28th

2. May 10th: Connect-ON! at The Miami Beach Bandshell: Join us for an immersive evening celebrating community, creativity, and generosity in action. It’s a party for the 10th anniversary and closing of the 10 Days of Connection! Explore interactive activations led by local changemakers, including Venprendedoras entrepreneurs, hands-on creative stations, and a community scavenger hunt and a rich cultural program featuring: Live poetry performances, Multi-cultural dance (Bollywood, Salsa, and more), and Different vendors to celebrate moms and more!

RSVP here for you and your mom!

Other Community Events:

91st Annual Silver Medallion Humanitarian Dinner | Mosaic Miami | May 17th
State of Black Philanthropy | The Miami Foundation | May 21st
Summer Camp at Downtown Media Center | FilmGate Miami | June 15th

INVEST IN (YOUR) LEADERSHIP

We’ve got a jam-packed quarter to set you up with the right skills and networks as you tackle some big, bold goals and challenges:

At IGNITE!, hosted by Philanthropy Miami on May 7th, our community is activating The Power of Us through an interactive postcard exchange that turns simple conversations into meaningful connections.
GET A GRIP session, June 11. Save the date to learn about the EOS System, a methodology to assess the state of your organization from vision and data to processes, issues and people. Led by The Profit Recipe.
Office Hours - In just 20 minutes, our Office Hours connect you with our team for targeted support to unlock relationships and strategies that advance your mission. Book yours now!

CO-CREATED SOLUTIONS:

SOLVE WITH US

Across the country, we’re partnering with bold leaders and organizations to train skill and design strategies that strengthen teams, deepen connection, and scale impact. Right now, we’re:

Having a blast with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Miami crew to facilitate workshops and trust-building experiences around designing an equitable culture in the workplace and developing strong public speaking and advocacy skills among this year’s cohorts of dynamic changemakers.

→ Apply to participate in their upcoming cohort!

Supporting Elevate Cities with a custom retreat designed to help a rapidly scaling team stay aligned, grounded, and energized as they grow.

→ Join them at The Longest Table during the 10 Days of Connection!

Continuing as a trusted capacity strengthening partner to local and national foundations, including The Miami Foundation and Julian Grace Foundation in Chicago, so organizations can sustain their work and scale their impact with intention through strategic planning and operational skills.

→ Access supportive sessions and materials at The Miami Foundation’s Capacity Building Resource Bank!

Bringing together arts organizations, schools, funders, and community leaders with Arts Access LA, a cross-sector initiative designed to expand equitable access to high-quality arts education for young people across Los Angeles. The initiative builds collaboration around a shared vision, strengthens pathways to opportunity, and develops collective strategies that help students thrive creatively, academically, and personally.

Each of these partnerships are co-created, rooted in the belief that the people closest to the work already hold the wisdom needed to drive it forward.

There’s always more things you can do.

Multiple Roles | The Miami Foundation | Miami
Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships | Watson Institute at Lynn University | Remote
Education Director | Armony Art Center | West Palm Beach

Community Grant | Ameriprise | May 15th | ~$10K – $50K
Encouraging Citizen Involvement | The Herb Block Foundation | June | $5k - $25k

These tools remind us that systems change is not just about better strategies but also about how we design, lead, and partner in ways that honor people, power, and possibility.

The Global Pain and Trauma Map | World Happiness Foundaiton
Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument | Opinion X
10 Communication Skills for Your Life and Career Success | Indeed

BUILD COALITIONS, ALWAYS

Arts Access Miami

Today, Arts Access Miami includes 25 organizations serving 70 schools and community sites, reaching more than 14,500 students each week. Through a unique model of collaboration, the initiative brings together schools, nonprofits, funders, and civic leaders to build trust, align around a shared vision, and strengthen collective responsibility for arts education. Radical Partners has been part of this journey since day one, and we are incredibly proud of all that has been accomplished together.

To learn more about Arts Access Miami and stay connected, go like their Instagram page: @artsaccessmiami.

LATEST AT RP

We’re happy and proud to share that we’ve stepped up our game on what we curate for you. This time around, we want to give a shoutout to a few of the talented humans who make us and our work better every day.

María

Magu Paper Co.

With her design skills, she co-designs resources to accelerate our impact.

"For me, design has always been about more than aesthetics. It's about connection. As the founder of Magu Paper Co., and as someone who was once part of the Miami community, getting to work with RP during these 10 Days of Connection has been a full-circle moment and a reminder of exactly why I do what I do. Together, we've been co-creating resources that don't just look good, but actually carry meaning. Visuals that speak to people, reflect who this community is, and help RP's message reach further. Being able to put my creativity in service of people and purpose is honestly one of the most fulfilling things I get to do. Grateful to be part of it."

Alejandra

Claridad Experience.

Ale, Facu, Moni and Juanita are a great team of storytellers.

"There is something that happens when you get close to people who have dedicated their lives to building a better world, it changes you. Working alongside organizations and movements driven purely by impact and people has been one of the greatest gifts of our work. They remind us, again and again, why telling the right story matters.

The for-impact space is full of people doing extraordinary things, often with very little, always with everything they've got. Getting to support that, to help carry those stories forward, doesn't feel like a job. It feels like a privilege. Their purpose becomes our purpose. And that shared energy is something we are endlessly grateful for."

Angélica

Sumark

Angélica and her team are engaging with our community online.

“As the community manager for 10 Days of Connection's Year 10, my work lives in the space between what happens around a table and what reaches someone's phone, translating real human experiences into content that makes someone in Miami stop scrolling and think: maybe I should show up. I believe in this because I've lived it. Years ago, a conversation with a girl in a shelter for orphaned teenagers changed how I see people. She told me her story, and I stopped judging and started understanding. That's what 10 Days of Connection does at scale. It creates the conditions for that shift to happen, over and over, across an entire city.”

As always, thanks for changemaking with us.

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