SAVE THE DATE
June 26, 2026 · 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. · Sunshine Ranch, Boulder, Colorado
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An intimate introductory gathering for women who hold philanthropic power
and are called to embody and wield it differently. |
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Together we will explore abundance not only as a financial reality, but as an embodied experience — one that shapes how we lead, give, relate, receive, and steward resources.
It is intended for women who understand both the complexity of the philanthropic landscape and the weight of moving through it, and who are called to do the interior work — for themselves and as part of reimagining the collective. Hosted at Sunshine Ranch, this gathering invites a full-bodied experience of abundance through land, nourishment, food, beauty, and sisterhood. This experience will also serve as an entry point into a future deeper cohort exploring these themes — and our visions for wider philanthropic systems change — more fully together. Nourishing cacao, snacks, and lunch will be served. Small cohort held by invitation. |
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AN INVITATIONWomen in Philanthropic AbundanceA small cohort immersive for women who hold philanthropic power
and are ready to engage it differently. |
The Challenge
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You have learned to move skillfully within the philanthropic landscape — supporting abundance, transformation, and possibility for the organizations and communities you fund. And you may also recognize its limitations. A paradigm that is largely pragmatic, action-oriented, and archetypically masculine.
You may also sense a more personal dissonance. You are supporting abundance in the world around you, while still navigating scarcity, over-responsibility, depletion, or a complicated relationship with receiving in your own life and work. |
We are proposing philanthropic abundance as consciousness work at the personal level — a multiplier of power and a root of meaningful social change, within and without. Reimagining giving in the collective begins with ourselves. This is the root of systems change. |
What We Will Explore |
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Questions We Will Sit With
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Who are you becoming through the act of giving?
Does giving still feel alive in you, or has it quietly become an obligation dressed as generosity? Are you moving resources from genuine overflow, or from scarcity that has simply become well-managed? Is there anywhere in your philanthropic life where you are allowed to arrive as a person rather than a donor? Why can abundance feel harder to claim than scarcity, even when the resources are real? What becomes possible when giving emerges from deeper alignment, relationship, and overflow? |
What Becomes Possible
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Women who engage in this interior work do not simply give differently. They become a different quality of presence and power in the world. We give from their essential selves rather than from the version of themselves the field has required them to be.
That alignment ripples outward. It changes what we fund, how we lead, what we make possible, and how others experience us. In the end, this is how we begin to usher in the world we actually want to see. |
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About This Gathering |
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Date & Time: June 26, 2026 · 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Sunshine Ranch, Boulder, Colorado — abundant gardens, farm-to-table nourishment, horses, and immersion in the living systems of the land Format: Small cohort held by invitation Price: $525 Facilitation: Women with deep expertise across philanthropy, coaching, equine therapy, somatics and embodiment work, leadership development, and systems change Nourishment: Cacao, snacks, and a farm-to-table lunch will be served |
This introductory gathering will serve as an entry point into a future deeper cohort — exploring these themes, and our visions for wider philanthropic systems change, more fully together. |
Meet Your GuidesThis work is held by four women who have each spent decades at the intersection of healing, community, money, and meaning — and who have come together because something new is being called forth. |
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Helen Gemmill
Helen is a lifelong learner and connector of worlds, and has spent her career as a bridge between donors and communities, between resources and need, between what is and what's possible. With deep roots in environmental philanthropy and a particular calling around water — its presence, its scarcity, its sacred nature — Helen brings a profound sense of stewardship to everything she touches. Helen helps individuals, families, and organizations align resources with their values, purpose, and truest expression. She works with people navigating transitions, seeking clarity, preparing to step into leadership roles, or exploring deeper connection to their mission—supporting them in uncovering possibilities, stepping forward with intention, and creating meaningful impact. She carries the desire to create circles, not hierarchies, and to be in community with others who want the same. She has spent 25 years working at the intersection of social change, leadership, and philanthropy, including environmental justice, women’s leadership, international work, and fundraising for organizations. She is adept in many roles, as staff, consultant, funder, board member and more. Based on her ranch in Boulder County, she draws inspiration from the land, her herd of horses, and the wisdom of plants and natural cycles. Her work is deeply relational, rooted in presence and attunement, guiding people to uncover clarity, deepen impact, step fully into leadership, and move into their truest expression. She was honored to be named to Boulder County's "40 Under 40." Mitten Lowe Medicine woman. Clinical herbalist. Keeper of the feminine path. Mitten's path is distinctive, and her medicine is the real thing. After navigating her own profound healing journey through illness, trauma, and the disconnections that modern life can bring, she emerged with a calling: to offer others what she had longed for and couldn't find. That offering became Journey to Wellness and The Medicine Woman Path — a holistic integration of clinical herbalism, ancestral healing traditions, botanical alchemy, nutrition, and spiritual practice. Mitten holds a BS in Biology and Nutrition from Colorado State, a Master's in Nonprofit Management from Regis University, and certification as a Master Clinical Herbalist. But her truest education came from her Yaya's kitchen — from sacred foods, ancestral recipes, and the knowing that medicine lives in our bones, in what we eat, in how we nourish ourselves and each other. Her work is a tonic to what she calls our "out-of-balance, toxic culture" — the exhaustion, perfectionism, and severance from the divine feminine that has become normalized. She believes that true healing is both ancient and modern, both and rather than either or. Her own regulated nervous system and deep well-nourishment are what allow her to hold space for others to do the same. In this circle, Mitten brings her gifts as a facilitator, a broth-master, a keeper of ritual and plant medicine — and her genuine love of the women who gather. Based in Boulder, she helps people heal locally and globally. Bridgit Wald Integrative practitioner. Equine partner. Somatic guide. Bridgit works at the intersection of coaching, counseling, somatics, and the natural world — and she has spent years learning to listen to systems: human, organizational, and equine. Her practice is grounded in the belief that the most meaningful change happens at the root level, when we attend to the whole person in their full complexity. Since 2016, Bridgit has practiced executive coaching and personal coaching through Emergence Leadership. She is currently pursuing her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, brings certification in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy from the Colorado School of Energy Studies, and facilitates equine coaching through EquusLibere — where she works with her beautiful herd of rescue horses. The horses are not props or metaphors in Bridgit's work. They are partners — exquisitely sensitive beings who respond to what is present in a person's nervous system, helping to surface what words cannot always access. In this container, Bridgit's equine work offers participants an experience of being truly met: by an animal, by their own body, by the present moment. What you'll notice about Bridgit is her precision, her gentleness, and her refusal to tolerate what isn't true. She cultivates safety through clarity. She has a deep interest in what makes systems — families, organizations, communities — either fracture or cohere, and she brings that curiosity into every room she enters. Her disassociated systems experience and cranial work are her homecoming — and her offering. Madeline Tomseth Strategic Impact Partner. Executive coach. Fourth-generation values-keeper. Madeline came to this work from an unusual direction: a fourth-generation member of the Les Schwab family, she grew up deeply shaped by her great-grandfather's philosophy of building good people and creating opportunities. When the family sold Les Schwab Tire Centers, she found herself at a threshold — and chose to build something that honored those roots while reaching toward something new. She founded Niveau Philanthropy in 2020 and trained as an Executive Coach through the Hudson Institute, bringing a whole-person, developmental approach to both her coaching clients and her philanthropic practice. She operates a donor-advised fund with a focus on local food security, and international women's health and climate initiatives — and serves As Vice Chair of Social Venture Partners Boulder County, is a Women Moving Millions Ambassador, Maverick Collective Member, and part of the Steering Committee for the Women’s Philanthropy Group. Before philanthropy, alongside operating in the tire business, Madeline spent over 13 years in food styling and recipe development, building a thriving creative business with brands like KitchenAid and Bob's Red Mill. That work taught her about beauty, precision, and the way that nourishment — when prepared with care — becomes something more than sustenance. It becomes belonging. What Madeline brings to this circle is the ability to hold the strategic and the soulful simultaneously. She listens deeply, thinks clearly, and cares fiercely — about the people in the room and about the larger world their generosity touches. Her work consistently asks: what would it mean to give — and live — from true abundance? This gathering is one of her answers. |
A Note on Cancellations
We understand that life's rhythms don't always align with our intentions. If you find yourself unable to join us, please let us know as soon as possible so that your seat may be offered. Cancellations received prior to June 19th will be honored with a 50% refund. Because this is an intimate, by-invitation gathering, cancellations received within one week of the gathering are non-refundable.
We understand that life's rhythms don't always align with our intentions. If you find yourself unable to join us, please let us know as soon as possible so that your seat may be offered. Cancellations received prior to June 19th will be honored with a 50% refund. Because this is an intimate, by-invitation gathering, cancellations received within one week of the gathering are non-refundable.