SD Grantmakers In Depth:
SDG 2006 Annual Conference

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
8am-3pm
NTC Promenade

Dear SDG Member,

I very much hope you will join us for the 2006 SDG Annual Conference. We have been telling you that it was coming and now we are excited to provide details about the guest speakers and workshops for this invigorating day. I urge you to try to make the time for this once-a-year opportunity to connect, learn, reflect and refresh. You do such good work, you deserve it — and at the end of the day you will return to grantmaking with new ideas and new vigor! Huge and heartfelt thanks to our generous Annual Conference Sponsors and dedicated Annual Conference Committee. See you on October 4!

Sincerely,
Nancy Jamison
SDG Executive Director

Note: printed invitations are on their way in the postal mail with the RSVP form, or you can use this pdf to print one. For more info or additional invitations, email us or call 619-744-2180.

Grantmakers as Change Makers:
SDG 2006 Annual Conference

Join us for the premier event for grantmakers in the San Diego region! If you only come to one SDG event all year, make it to the Annual Conference. This year's program features plenary and workshop sessions emphasizing inspiration and instruction regarding best practices, innovations, nationally-recognized expert speakers, and above all, how we as grantmakers are also change makers.

The SDG Annual Conference is a wonderful chance to come together with our community of givers and discover ways to strengthen your philanthropy. This is an event where no matter what the type, shape, or size of your giving--be it independent, family, community, public, individual, giving circle, corporate foundation or corporate giving program--you will leave with invigorating new ideas about how to give in the most effective ways. You will be changed! Read below for details, or click here (pdf) to download the conference invitation.

Session and Speaker Information

Plenaries
Opening Plenary: Philanthropy’s Change Agents
Kathleen P. Enright, Executive Director, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

We represent many different kinds of grantmakers, but ultimately all of us are in the business of social change.  As we work, we catalyze, facilitate, and witness change—but, like the organizations we support, we face internal and external resistance.  GEO is leading an effort to apply proven community change strategies to the practice of philanthropy. Hear what hundreds of nonprofits and grantmakers from across the country believe to be the biggest change opportunities for grantmakers. Kathleen Enright will share examples of change agents in philanthropy who are restructuring the way they approach their work in order to achieve broader results.

Afternoon Plenary: Redefining Nonprofit Success
Jan Masaoka, former Executive Director, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, and named to the 2006 NonProfit Times "Power and Influence Top 50"

Why do our partnerships with nonprofits so often feel superficial or frustrating?  Perhaps a new framework is necessary: one that re-defines nonprofit success, community change, and the grantmaker/grantee relationship.  In follow-up to Kathleen Enright’s discussion of grantmakers as change agents, Jan Masaoka will explore how the ways we as grantmakers work affect nonprofit performance as much as which projects and issues we choose to support.  In addition, Jan will propose innovative ideas on defining nonprofit success and building more authentic grantmaker-grantee partnerships.

Workshop Sessions
Each workshop will be offered twice so that participants will attend two of the four workshops.

Option #1: Investing in Leadership
Kathleen P. Enright, Executive Director, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Janine Mason, Executive Director, The Fieldstone Foundation
Marty Campbell, Vice President for Programs, The James Irvine Foundation

Ask any grantmaker what makes for a strong and effective nonprofit – or what facilitates positive change – and the answer is often the same: leadership.  At this interactive session, hear about supporting nonprofit leadership as a means to improve organizational performance and create change.  At the same time, share your personal experiences with colleagues to identify how we can work together to strengthen nonprofit leadership and use that leadership to promote change in our region. 

Option #2: Achieving Change by Supporting Collaboration
Elwood M. Hopkins, Managing Director, Emerging Markets, Inc. and author of Collaborative Philanthropies
Gene Howard, CEO, Orangewood Children’s Foundation
Jennifer S. Vanica, President & CEO, Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and Jacobs Family Foundation

Significant change can happen through collaboration.  However, collaboration is not the current norm.  Join this session to examine how effective collaborations are developed and sustained.  At the same time, discuss the role that we as grantmakers can play in identifying and convening unlikely partners from within the public and private sectors as well as creating and supporting “communities of interest” to collaborate on key issues and generate change.

Option #3: High Impact Grantmaking
Charlene Seidle, Associate Director, Jewish Community Foundation
Deborah Lindholm, Founder/Executive Director, Foundation for Women
Lisa Fujimoto, Executive Director, Change a Life Foundation
Lina Paredes, Director of Programs, Liberty Hill Foundation

Although our grants vary in size and form, our bottom line is the same: impact.  High impact grantmaking is about a strategy for change rather than an award size.  Hear from funders whose grants have achieved higher levels of impact and greater measures of change through the use of microcredit, support for direct services, investments in organizational capacity building, and other innovative approaches.

Option #4: The Power Imbalance in Grantmaker/Grantee Relationships
Lee Draper, President, Draper Consulting Group and feature writer, Foundation News & Commentary

The power imbalance in the grantmaker/grantee relationship is unavoidable, but we as philanthropists have the ability to choose how we respond to it as we promote positive change in our work with nonprofit organizations.  In an interactive setting, discuss how to become more effective, responsive, and principled grantmakers by recognizing and addressing this power dynamic.  Participants should be prepared to answer the following question:  In your philanthropy, when have you been able to use power to strategic advantage, and when have you been aware that it was a detriment to creative collaboration and positive change? 

Agenda

8:00-8:30am Registration & Breakfast
8:30-9:30am Welcome & Opening Plenary: Kathleen P. Enright
9:30-10:45am Workshop 1
11:00am-12:15pm Workshop 2
12:30-1:30pm Lunch & Afternoon Plenary: Jan Masaoka
1:30-2:00pm Q&A with Kathleen P. Enright and Jan Masaoka
2:00-2:15pm Closing Video Presentation*
2:15-3:00pm Networking Reception

*Produced in partnership by San Diego Neighborhood Funders and the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, c2006, all rights reserved.

Registration

Register by email to programs@sdgrantmakers.org or click here (pdf) to download a form for mail or fax registration. Reserve your seat today! Registrations are due by September 22, 2006.

The registration fee is $100 per person for San Diego Grantmakers members, and $150 per person for non-member grantmakers.

Logistics

Location & Directions
The conference location is the NTC Promenade, San Diego's exciting new destination for arts, culture, science and technology at the former Naval Training Center in Point Loma. Click here for a map and directions. The conference will begin at The Corky McMillin Companies Event Center at 2875 Dewey Road.

Parking
There is a large parking lot near the conference facility. Parking is free.

Questions?
Contact SDG at 619/744-2180 or programs@sdgrantmakers.org.

Sponsors

San Diego Grantmakers gratefully acknowledges the support of Conference Sponsors:

PLATINUM

GOLD

SILVER

The Legler Benbough Foundation

BRONZE

VIDEO SPONSORS

PARTNER

HOST
The Rose Foundation/The WebMD Health Foundation

For information on how to become a conference sponsor, contact SDG at 619/744-2180 or programs@sdgrantmakers.org.

Planning Committee

SDG also wishes to thank the members of the 2006 Annual Conference Planning Committee:

Co-Chairs:
Stacey Amodio, The California Endowment
Ann Davies, The Parker Foundation

Members:
Leslie Harrington, The San Diego Foundation
Janine Mason, The Fieldstone Foundation
Victor Nelson, The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation
Dixie Newman, The Rose Foundation/The WebMD Health Foundation
Charlene Seidle, Jewish Community Foundation
Debbie Williams, J.W. Sefton Foundation
Nancy Jamison, San Diego Grantmakers
Meghan Duffy, San Diego Grantmakers

Upcoming SDG Programs

Viva La Volunteer: Corporate Employee Engagement
September 7, 2006, 8:30-10:30am
Location:  AMN Healthcare, 12400 High Bluff Drive, San Diego
Sponsors: 
Breakfast hosted by:


An Exploration: SDG Family Foundation Peer Learning Network
September 13, 4-6pm
Location: Home of Valerie Jacobs and Norm Hapke

N2: Networking at Northern Trust
A FEW 4th WEDNESDAYS
September 27, 4 - 5:30pm Special Member Panel: Grants Review & Decisions
October 25, 12 - 1:30pm
Hosted by: Northern Trust
Network with and learn from your SDG member colleagues! September 27 will have a special focus on reviewing grant applications with Tim McCarthy from the McCarthy Family Foundation, Ruth Riedel from the Alliance Healthcare Foundation and Cindy Olmstead, Chair of the San Diego Women's Foundation Grants Committee.

San Diego Grantmakers Annual Conference: 
Grantmakers as Change Makers
October 4, 2006, 8am-3pm
Location: NTC Promenade, 2875 Dewey Road, San Diego
Breakfast and Lunch Included
$100 SDG members; $150 nonmember grantmakers

Watch your snail-mail for the Conference invitation! Keynote speakers include Kathleen Enright of GEO and Jan Masaoka, named to The NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50 2006. In addition, the conference will feature sessions on leadership, collaboration, high-impact grants, and grantee/grantor relationships. DON'T MISS IT! Save your seat today by emailing programs@sdgrantmakers.org.

Distinguished Speaker Series: Mayor Jerry Sanders
A Philanthropic Lens for San Diego’s Future
November 1, 2006, 11:30am-1:00pm
Location: Aboard Holland America Lines ms Zaandam (in port),
1140 N. Harbor Drive
Lunch Included
Fee

All programs are free for SDG members except where indicated. To RSVP, please call (619) 744-2180 or email programs@sdgrantmakers.org.

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