The Women’s Giving Alliance (WGA), an initiative of The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida is hosting the 2017 Women’s Collective Giving Grantmaker’s Network (WCGN) National Leadership Forum from March 12 to 14, 2017. Registration for the full conference and for a la carte events is now open.
The Women’s Giving Alliance is a giving circle, where members contribute individually but make grants collectively. Each member represents a link in an ever-growing chain that enables Women’s Giving Alliance to achieve far more together than its members could accomplish on their own. This investment allows members to participate in two forms of philanthropy—collective grantmaking and endowment building. Since its inception, members of the Women’s Giving Alliance have made more than $4.9 million in grants and built an endowment of more than $2.8 million.
This 6th conference, “Women Together Making Waves,” will celebrate women-powered giving with peers from around the nation. WCGN has secured an outstanding lineup of speakers. The keynote speaker is Jackie Bezos, president, Bezos Family Foundation. Teresa C. Younger, president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, has also been confirmed as a speaker. WCGN has secured an outstanding lineup of plenary speakers. To view the conference agenda, visit here.To register for the conference or individual events, visit the Women’s Collective Giving Grantmaker’s Network website at: http://www.wcgn-network.org/conferences.
“We are thrilled that women from across the U.S. will join us in Northeast Florida to connect, learn and share,” said Paula Liang, immediate past president, WGA. “We are excited to kick off our 15th Anniversary year by welcoming friends old and new from across the country to our beautiful corner of the world, and to introduce them to some of what is unique both about WGA and about Northeast Florida.” Paula Liang and Martha Baker are co-chairing the event. Baker is an active community volunteer, a founding member of the Northeast Florida Women’s Giving Alliance and a trustee of The Community Foundation. Liang is the immediate past president of the Women’s Giving Alliance of Northeast Florida and co-chair, Florida Women's Funding Alliance--An Affinity Group of the Florida Philanthropic Network.
The conference will be held at One Ocean Resort in Atlantic Beach, Fla.More information about WCGN and prior conferences is available at www.wcgn-network.org.
About Women’s Giving Alliance of Northeast Florida
The Women's Giving Alliance, an initiative of The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, is a dynamic group of diverse women who pool their philanthropic giving to make a lasting impact on the lives of women and girls in Northeast Florida. Since 2001, hundreds of women in Northeast Florida have become WGA members, making an annual contribution of $1,500 each. Through those contributions, WGA has made grants totaling more than $4.9 million to more than 45 nonprofit organizations. It also has built an endowment exceeding $2.8 million to ensure the future of its philanthropic work. For more information:www.wganefl.org.
About The Women’s Collective Giving Grantmakers Network
The Women’s Collective Giving Grantmakers Network (WCGN) consists of 48 giving groups in 24 states – including the Women’s Giving Alliance of Northeast Florida – and represents more than 11,000 women. For more information about the Network, please visit www.wcgn-network.org.
