Annual EFN Convening.
“This was one of the best convenings I’ve attended all year. The location was great, the programming was great, and the many opportunities to learn, network, and have fun doing it were awesome. I can’t wait until next year!”
Arielle Milton, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
2024 EFN Convening
We're excited to bring the Entrepreneurship Funders Network and entrepreneurship funders together for the 2024 EFN Convening in Baltimore! Tell your other entrepreneurship funding friends, invite your teams, register for the event, make your travel arrangements, book your hotel, and please join us for a dynamic experience that explores what can be achieved for entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs, and the communities they serve.
We accomplish more together than is possible alone. Let's come together in person in Baltimore.
2024 EFN Convening Registration Rate: $850
If you are an entrepreneurship funder who is new to EFN and interested in attending the 2024 EFN Convening, please email Ify Aduba at ifeoma@eshipfundersnetwork.org for information on how to register.
Thank you to eBay Foundation, and Surdna Foundation, for sponsoring the 2024 EFN Convening! There is still time for you to become an official sponsor, so please consider doing so today!
Book your Stay
The 2024 EFN Convening has a room block at the Baltimore Hilton - Inner Harbor.
To make the most out of your convening experience as an EFN member or a funder, we suggest booking from Sunday October 6, through Wednesday October 9. Based on feedback from our 2023 EFN Convening attendees, we expect programming on Wednesday, October 9, to run through at least 3pm.
If you are an entrepreneurship funder who is new to EFN, please email Ify Aduba for information about registration and hotel reservations.
Baltimore Hilton - Inner Harbor
401 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
2024 EFN Convening Sponsorship
This unique gathering strives to create brave space for funders to connect with each other, broadly share ideas, explore questions and curiosities particular to their role as funders, and co-create new initiatives. After having the opportunity to connect with each other, other ecosystem partners are invited into the learning environment, helping to build a fuller picture and deeper understanding of how equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems are functioning or might be improved. Sponsorship of this and any other in-person gathering that EFN might host is designed to ensure that connection, learning, and co-creation remain the primary focus.
EFN CONVENING SPONSORSHIP LEVELS
Sponsorship Level Benefit(s)
$2,500 1 event registration
$5,000 2 event registrations
$10,000 4 event registrations
$20,000 8 event registrations
All sponsors will be recognized in pre- and post-event emails, the event program, and the event report. EFN welcomes conversation about sponsoring specific event components, including but not limited to, receptions, meals, tracks, transportation, or more. Sponsors who do not plan to use all of their available registrations are encouraged to inform EFN and donate those registration to covering the cost of invited ecosystem partners or guests.
Please visit our FundRazr site for more information. For questions about event sponsorship, please contact Ify Aduba at ifeoma@eshipfundersnetwork.org.
2023 EFN Convening
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2023 EFN Convening!
The 2023 EFN Convening was designed with thoughtful intention and recognized as an opportunity to test and build on insights we’ve garnered from our network members.
Honoring an expressed desire to move EFN into an network for impact that connects, learns, and acts together; each segment of the event was carefully crafted to further these aspirations.
Download the full report to read more about EFN’s approach to convening design. Plus, you can catch a glimpse of some of the new programs EFN is piloting for network members, inspired by insights from the convening.