CCF Family Reunion 2026

The CCF Family Reunion is Community-Centric Fundraising's annual gathering — a movement-building moment where fundraisers and changemakers connect, build meaningful relationships, and take part in sessions typically missing from other conferences.

LiberArte board treasurer Alexandra Peek (she/her) — climate justice practitioner, community-based death doula, and founder of Peek Counsel — was invited to host two sessions honoring Earth Month.

Creativity as Medicine: Ancestral Wisdom, Health, and Building a New World

Creativity is not a luxury — it is a necessary tool in times of climate crisis, collective burnout, and social fragmentation. This session explores the intersection of creativity, health, and climate change, drawing on ancestral and land-based wisdom as vital tools for healing, nervous system regulation, and imagining new futures.

Using LiberArte Inc. as a case example, participants learn how creativity can be cultivated as both a personal and community practice for building resilience and transformative climate action.

Who Benefits? A Borderland Case Study in Community-Led Climate Justice

From environmental justice to climate justice, much of today's climate work still reproduces nature injustice by prioritizing top-down solutions that never meaningfully reach communities. Grounded in a case study of El Paso, Texas, this session highlights the gap between climate policy and grassroots climate action happening at the city and neighborhood level.

The conversation explores how power-shifting and community-centric fundraising can resource locally led, circular economies that reverse climate harm while strengthening community health, self-determination, and the Earth.