CHICAGO | OCTOBER 9–10, 2026
Your Path to The Homecoming: CABWC is Clear
We understand that taking time away from your daily role and securing funding requires a clear conversation with your supervisor, leadership, or board.
The Courageous Access Black Women’s Conference is an investment in your leadership sustainability, health, and professional capacity. Use the tools below to demonstrate to your organization exactly why your presence at The Homecoming in Chicago on October 9–10, 2026, is essential.
1. The Business Case: Professional Capacity & Longevity
When proposing attendance to your manager, focus on how this investment stabilizes and strengthens your role within the organization. The #CABWC2026 experience directly translates into organizational value through:
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Sustainable Leadership: Gain evidence-based tools for physical, mental, and identity reclamation to effectively combat professional burnout
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Advanced Frameworks: Deepen your professional expertise in trauma-informed, healing-centered systems of community care
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Funding Alignment: This conference qualifies as a dedicated professional development expense and aligns with preventative health initiatives
2. Expense Breakdown Worksheet
Provide your leadership with an exact breakdown of costs for straightforward approval:
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Conference Registration Fee: $625
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Travel / Airfare: [Insert Amount]
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Lodging: $0! Included in Conference Registration Fee!
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Meal Per Diem once Checked-In: $0 Included in Conference Registration Fee!
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Total Investment: [Insert Total]
Use These Customizable Approval Email Templates Below:
Option A: For Non-Profit, Advocacy, & Community Leaders (incl CEUs): Click here!
Option B: For Corporate & Institutional Specialists (incl T& TA): Click here!
Bringing your staff, community group, or collective? We make team registration seamless.
Simply click the button below. Remember to:
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Choose the total number of tickets you need
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Add the name and contact information for each team member, starting with leadership information first
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Choose the applicable company payment method to complete your purchase
Sisters, as therapists, stylists, massage professionals, and so many more, you are constantly pouring out your energy. Under IRS Topic 513, your $625 ticket to this conference is possibly a ​100% tax-deductible professional and wellness expense because it directly maintains the skills and personal sustainability you need to run your practices.
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If your accountant agrees - ask them - they will write this off on Schedule C.
Collect & Keep the Following Items for Your Accountant's Evidence Checklist:
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The Ticket Receipt/Invoice: A copy of the electronic receipt or invoice showing the exact $625 purchase price, the date, and the transaction details.
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The Conference Agenda/Program: A printed or digital copy of the conference schedule from Courageous Access. This proves to the IRS that the content directly aligns with professional improvement, wellness maintenance, or skills growth.
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The Travel & Lodging Receipts: Traveling from out of town? Airfare, train tickets, hotel stays, and Uber/Lyft rides to and from the venue are also 100% deductible.
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Meal Receipts: Keep your receipts during the travel days and conference days, which are typically 50% deductible under current tax laws.
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Proof of Payment Method: A bank or credit card statement showing the payment was made directly from your business account, or via an Affirm installment plan statement showing the professional expenditure.
1. Affirm
If you already have Affirm, you can use your virtual card to pay! ​
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That means the same flexibility you have for payment plan options for other Affirm purchases are available to you to use for The Homecoming also!
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Simply do the checkout at the button below as usual and use your Affirm virtual card numbers for the payment at checkout!
2. HSA (Health Savings Account)
Because the healers are certified, master, and doctorate-level experts and are delivering complementary alternative medicinal modalities, these sessions are qualifiable expenses through your health insurance! That means you can use your HSA funds to pay as long as you have an HSA debit card to pay! ​
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Simply do the checkout at the button below as usual and use your HSA card numbers for the payment at checkout!