Keynotes
National voices frame the questions, evidence, and leadership decisions shaping the work.
CEIC
The CEIC Experience
No essential conversation left behind.
Community Engagement Impact Conference 2027
CEIC is designed as one shared learning journey. Every attendee completes all four CEIC Core Curriculum tracks, joins guided conversations, and applies the work to a real challenge.
The CEIC Experience
This isn’t two days of watching a screen.
A shared learning journey built around instruction, guided conversation, national connection, and direct application to the work you brought with you.
The Tables
Join facilitated small-group conversations organized around shared challenges, roles, and real-world practice.
The Exchange
Meet. Connect. Take Something Back.
Build useful connections with practitioners from across the country and leave with ideas you can apply.
The CEIC Core Curriculum
Four instructional tracks. One complete learning experience.
Every attendee completes all four curriculum tracks. There is no choosing between core sessions and no missing the conversation you needed because another session happened at the same time.
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I
Track I
The Engagement Architecture
Design the work before you count the work.
Designing community engagement with purpose before the event ever happens. Focus on the problem being addressed, who needs to be involved, what success looks like before the work begins, and how engagement connects to agency and community needs.
II
Track II
The Evidence Standard
Determine what actually proves impact.
Move beyond activity counts and examine what qualifies as meaningful evidence. Explore attendance, contacts, community feedback, qualitative outcomes, behavior change, partnership development, trust indicators, and how to support claims without overstating impact.
III
Track III
Trust Infrastructure
Build what remains after the event ends.
Focus on the relationships, feedback loops, access points, partnerships, community voice, follow-through, internal alignment, and institutional memory that make trust-building sustainable between events.
IV
Track IV
Institutionalizing Community Engagement
Move engagement from a unit function to an agency practice.
Examine how community engagement becomes embedded across leadership, policy, budget, training, accountability, reporting, succession, and cross-unit responsibility so the work survives individual champions.
The Exchange
Meet.
Connect.
Take Something Back.
Networking at CEIC is intentional, not a generic networking hour. Meet practitioners from around the country through structured small-group rounds and topic-based Tables.
The Tables
Turn the work into a way forward.
Bring one real issue, event, or challenge. Apply each core track and leave with an initial action plan built around your actual work.
- 01The Problem
- 02The Purpose
- 03The Evidence
- 04The Relationship
- 05The Action Plan
What You Take Back
The work continues after CEIC.
- 01Certificate of completion
- 02Initial action plan built around a real agency challenge
- 03Connections with practitioners from across the country
Professional Recognition
Certificate of Completion