Fortifying the Movement in Volatile Times
Wednesday, July 30 –Friday, August 1
Keystone Conference Center | Keystone, Colorado
2025 Colorado Health Symposium
Poster Sessions Call for Proposals
The 2025 Colorado Health Symposium is a dynamic space for nonprofit leaders, grassroots organizers, community advocates and policy changemakers to come together, share bold ideas and take action toward a more just and sustainable future. As we navigate uncertainty, this year’s theme, Fortifying the Movement in Volatile Times, reflects the resilience of those leading change and the strategies needed to sustain and strengthen collective efforts in achieving health equity and racial justice. Join us in Keystone, Colorado from July 30-August 1, 2025.
New for 2025: To deepen engagement and learning, we are excited to introduce poster sessions, a powerful format designed to showcase innovative approaches, stimulate dialogue and inspire action. We are now accepting proposals for poster sessions.
Submissions will be accepted from March 11 through April 4, 2025.
About Poster Sessions | What We’re Looking For
Poster sessions provide a visual and interactive way for individuals, organizations and community groups to highlight innovative solutions, new research and emerging practices that are advancing health equity in Colorado. These displays will be available throughout the Symposium, serving as key touchpoints for idea-sharing and meaningful discussions. Posters should tell a story without verbal narration.
Posters should showcase creative, community-driven solutions that address key challenges in advocacy, messaging, nonprofit sustainability and policy impact. Each poster will profile the problem, the solution and 2-5 lessons learned.
Poster Session Details
Innovation in Action:
Posters should showcase creative, community-driven solutions that address key challenges in advocacy, messaging, nonprofit sustainability and policy impact. Each poster will profile, the problem the solution and 2-5 lessons learned.
Applicants must pick a topic area that their poster will bring to life:
- Case studies in how to navigate local policy change and implementation
- How to engage in local storytelling for impact
- Engaging media in today’s information ecosystem
- How to select audiences and strategies for effective audience-centered communications
- Strengthening nonprofit sustainability through staff leadership
- Strengthening nonprofit sustainability through operational resilience
To Submit You’ll Need:
- Alignment with one of the topic areas
- Working title
- Key learnings (3 short bullet points - limit 150 characters each)
- Poster lead name and contact details
Poster Session Templates
Important Information
Each accepted poster will have up to two representatives available to engage with attendees. Poster leads should be prepared to interact with attendees during designated times, fostering conversations and knowledge exchange. All poster session leads must participate in person.
Poster leads will select from three design templates (pictured above) and provide copy. The Foundation will design, print and set up all posters.
Posters will be displayed in a ballroom area at the conference center. The poster session gallery will be open for both informal gallery walks and scheduled times when poster session leads can network and discuss the projects or work profiled on the selected posters.
Interpreters will be available by request for attendees who prefer to learn about poster sessions in Spanish. You may also present a poster in Spanish, if preferred.
Poster session leads (up to two) will receive full-access admission to the three-day Symposium and are responsible for arranging and paying for travel and lodging.
There is no restriction on who can submit a proposal, though the submitter should be the primary point of contact for the session. Poster applicants will likely include: nonprofits, grassroots organizations, researchers and coalitions working to strengthen health equity in Colorado.
Assistance? Please email us at cohealthsymposium@coloradohealth.org with your name, preferred language and technical issue or question. A member of our team will contact you within one business day.
