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21/64 Approach Training for Professionals of Color – Chicago, IL – June 4-5, 2025

At 21/64, we have seen the power of peer-based learning through our dedicated Approach Trainings for Community Foundation, Family Philanthropy, and Family Enterprise professionals, where shared professional contexts enhance the learning experience.

Building on our success and in response to the growing demand for the 21/64 Certified Advisors of Color Program, we are thrilled to offer a tailored 21/64 Approach Training for professionals of color focused on multigenerational family engagement around wealth, legacy, family and succession.

Over two days, participants will learn 21/64’s proven methodology to facilitate important and often complex conversations at the intersection of wealth, values and governance. Participants will deepen leadership skills, generational awareness, and technical tools to work more effectively with next gen donors, and multigenerational philanthropic and enterprising families.

This training will be facilitated by 21/64 Senior Directors Jumi Falusi Samen and Andine Sutarjadi, with the core 21/64 Approach curriculum intentionally tailored for and led by professionals of color. Participants are encouraged to draw courageously upon their identities, cultural heritage, and belief systems—whether spiritual, religious, ancestral, or otherwise—to inform their professional practice. This approach fosters relational and transformational interactions with donors, clients, and colleagues, deepening trust and creating pathways for lasting impact and systemic change.

Once participants completed the 21/64 Approach Training, you will become a 21/64 Certified Advisor, joining a global network of accredited professionals. Participants will also have the option of joining the 21/64 Learning Community with free access to continued skill building, next level trainings, the latest resources and tools, and more.

Participants should plan for a combination of live learning in person, small group participant discussion, and independent work before and between sessions.

Pre-work and Between Sessions

We will share some independent work, readings, and videos to prepare for the training. Light work will be assigned between the sessions.

Materials

You will receive pre-training details electronically and hard materials once you arrive at the training. Agenda, pre-reading, and additional logistics will be shared via email and on 21/64 Connect.

Payment and Fees

  • For-Profit Professional - $3,650
  • Non-Profit Professional & Independent Practitioner - $2,965

Tuition includes the training, hard copy tools, electronic resources, 21/64's shipping costs and one full year of certification. After one year, your certification will auto-renew at a rate of $65 annually (you can opt out at any time).

We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and included. All individuals are welcome regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, religion, or background.

Registration for this training is closed. If you have any questions or would like to be added to the waitlist, please contact Sam Grimmke at [email protected].

 

Testimonials.


The 21/64 program has been transformational in how I work with my donor clients. I am able to have authentic and actionable conversations about their philanthropy using tools and techniques I learned in the workshop.

Kaky Grant

Grant Philanthropic Advisors

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2020-07-28T10:21:06-04:00

Kaky Grant

Grant Philanthropic Advisors

The 21/64 program has been transformational in how I work with my donor clients. I am able to have authentic and actionable conversations about their philanthropy using tools and techniques I learned in the workshop.
This was the best training and workshop experience I’ve ever attended. Every minute was meaningful.

Hayley Wasser - Associate Director, United Way of the Battle Creek & Kalamazoo Region

21/64
2017-07-03T17:09:06-04:00

Hayley Wasser - Associate Director, United Way of the Battle Creek & Kalamazoo Region

This was the best training and workshop experience I’ve ever attended. Every minute was meaningful.
I highly recommend this training, even if you are quite experienced in family meeting facilitation and client management. In addition to providing outstanding content, the training works on almost a meta level — not only are you covering the toolkits and techniques for facilitating family meetings in detail, but in addition you are able to observe skilled facilitators demonstrate these techniques in action as they work with the group. You are able to reflect about yourself and about the approach you bring to client work as you use the tools, and you are also able to learn from and share best practices with the highly experienced group of peers who attend the training alongside you. A highly valuable use of time!

Coventry Edwards-Pitt- Chief Wealth Advisory Officer, Ballentine Partners, LLC

21/64
2017-08-15T12:27:20-04:00

Coventry Edwards-Pitt- Chief Wealth Advisory Officer, Ballentine Partners, LLC

I highly recommend this training, even if you are quite experienced in family meeting facilitation and client management. In addition to providing outstanding content, the training works on almost a meta level — not only are you covering the toolkits and techniques for facilitating family meetings in detail, but in addition you are able to observe skilled facilitators demonstrate these techniques in action as they work with the group. You are able to reflect about yourself and about the approach you bring to client work as you use the tools, and you are also able to learn from and share best practices with the highly experienced group of peers who attend the training alongside you. A highly valuable use of time!
The 21/64 Training was the most important and impactful professional development work I’ve done in many years

101 Training Participant

21/64
2017-08-16T14:43:23-04:00

101 Training Participant

The 21/64 Training was the most important and impactful professional development work I’ve done in many years
This was the best training and workshop experience I’ve ever attended. Every minute was meaningful.

101 Training Participant

21/64
2017-08-16T14:45:02-04:00

101 Training Participant

This was the best training and workshop experience I’ve ever attended. Every minute was meaningful.
You have created a fabulous training for the 21/64 methodology and tools – the combination of personal and group development, learning on individual and then facilitation levels, and working with specific tools and an overall system – what a hard balance that you did extremely well. So many thanks for including me in the program!

101 Training Participant

21/64
2017-08-16T14:45:45-04:00

101 Training Participant

You have created a fabulous training for the 21/64 methodology and tools – the combination of personal and group development, learning on individual and then facilitation levels, and working with specific tools and an overall system – what a hard balance that you did extremely well. So many thanks for including me in the program!
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