2009 Conference

"The people were fantastic, the sessions topical and relevant, and the conversations informative and stimulating. Thank you!"
                                                -Jordan Marshall, Rasmuson Foundation

Thank you to the 250 grantmakers and speakers who joined us in Skamania for three days of learning, inspiration and fun at the 2009 Annual Conference.

Check out our conference blog for highlights, including the Monday evening keynote from Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org (pictured, right). She received a standing ovation and dozens of "kudos bracelets" after her speech.

The conference blog is also filled with session recaps, reflections and comments, and we've posted all the photos from the conference on our Flickr page.

We want to continue to gather feedback about the sessions and your conference experience - so please add your voice by leaving a comment on the Annual Conference posts.

If you would like to obtain a presentation from one of the conference speakers, please contact Lyn Hunter at lhunter@PhilanthropyNW.org or 206-443-8461. While not all presentations will be available, we will post what we can on this page.

Thanks again to our co-chairs, steering committee, sponsors, board of directors and members for making this such a successful event!