The Mel King Institute 13th Annual Breakfast

LEARNING AREA: Other

MKI Training

Online

In person

Duration:

2 hours 30 minutes

Location

Lawn on D
420 D St
Boston, MA 02210

Description

This hybrid event will offer opportunities to participate both in person and online!

Please join the Mel King Institute for Community Building to celebrate our 13th year of learning, innovating, and networking across the Massachusetts community development field.

During the breakfast, learn about our programs, partnerships, and accomplishments over the past year. As we continue to grow, your support is critical to help us provide the programming community development professionals need to build thriving and equitable communities.

Read more about our work in the 2021 MKI Breakfast Yearbook

REGISTRATION:

REGISTER TO ATTEND ONLINE HERE

REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON HERE

*ONE IN-PERSON REGISTRATION PER ORGANIZATION*

Please Note: The in-person option to attend this event is restricted to persons who will be fully vaccinated by June 23rd, 2022. Please check the box during registration if you are vaccinated. You will be required to present your vaccination card for entry into the venue.

SPONSORSHIP:

MACDC Member Sponsorship Form

Non-Member Sponsorship Form

SPONSOR THE MACDC CONVENTION & THE MEL KING INSTITUTE BREAKFAST

MACDC Member Dual Sponsorship Form

Non-member Dual Sponsorship Form

SPEAKERS

2022 MKI Poet: Porsha Olayiwola

Porsha Olayiwola is a native of Chicago who writes, lives and loves in Boston. Olayiwola is a writer, performer, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black, woman, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the founder of the Roxbury Poetry Festival. Olayiwola is Brown University's 2019 Heimark Artist -In -Residence as well as the 2021 Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a 2020 poet laureate fellow with the Academy of American poets. Olayiwola earned her MFA in poetry from Emerson College and is the author of i shimmer sometimes, too. Olayiwola is the current poet laureate for the city of Boston. Her work can be found in or forthcoming from with TriQuarterly Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Boston Globe, Essence Magazine, Redivider, The Academy of American Poets, Netflix, Wildness Press, The Museum of Fine Arts and elsewhere.

FOUNDING PARTNERS

PRESENTING SPONSOR

PLATINUM SPONSORS

GOLD SPONSORS

BRONZE SPONSORS

Ann Silverman Consulting
Diane Gordon Consulting
Licata Risk Advisors
Munkenbeck Consulting
TD Charitable Foundation

Registration fee

Free to attend! $100 Suggested Donation