With more than $50 million annually invested in West Virginia by private, family, corporate and community foundations and corporate giving programs, the philanthropic community is a huge investor in Game Changing solutions and programs to transform WV’s present and future development.
“Coming together as the Mountain State’s foundation and corporate giving community is not just about training, but working together on common issues that are creating solutions to some of our local, regional and state’s greatest challenges and issues. Philanthropy WV is a platform for bringing together partners from the private, public, and philanthropic sectors to create change focused on fixing root cause of our state’s challenges from poverty to children’s health to education transformation to economic and community development,” says Paul D. Daugherty, president and CEO of Philanthropy WV. He adds, “The philanthropic community serves as Game Changers in WV by creating new solutions, working across sectors, and taking risks with innovative approaches that create an improved quality of life for our 1.8 million citizens.”
On November 5th and 6th, Philanthropy West Virginia will convene over 100 board members, trustees, CEOs, program staff,
and professional advisors for foundations and giving programs from across the state for their Annual Conference and
Members Meeting at Glade Springs Resort titled “Game Changers in the Mountain State”. The conference
programming includes an unbelievable line up of speakers, presenters, and results oriented experts who are
national, regional, and state leaders on a variety of groundbreaking work. This year’s program is focused on how
foundations, giving programs, and philanthropy are transforming the state around community development
projects for small and large city/town economic revitalization, addressing health issues that improve our
citizens’ quality of life to transforming education so it advances our students’ life-long success and much more.
Additionally, the conference hosts a variety of up to date technical training for board members, CEOs, and program staff
from legal practices, ethical standards, to operations. Philanthropy convenes leaders for action across all sectors
(Private, Public and Independent) to create “game changing” solutions for so many challenges in this state for
the past 50 years and our collective work in the future will continue to advance the state’s success.
“We’re excited to host an outstanding line up of keynote speakers including: WV Public Broadcasting’s Scott Finn on Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday national leader and C.S. Mott Foundation Program Director Kyle Caldwell as our opening keynote; Steve Farmer, trustee of the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust as our luncheon keynote, and Nikki Bowman, Owner/Publisher/President of New South Media & WV Living Magazine series as our closing keynote. They all bring great ideas, insights, and calls to action for our state’s philanthropic community to advance their impact and service to our communities,” shares Conference Committee Chair Susan Landis, executive director of the Beckley Area Foundation. Kyle Caldwell’s keynote will focus on the work of the C.S. Mott Foundation in Michigan and across the country to help with economic growth and educational improvements for community vitality. Bringing in such a dynamic line up of leaders will not only provide learning, but mobilizing action among the state’s philanthropic community. The conference boasts over a dozen programs for private, family, corporate, community, and public grantmaking foundations, giving programs and philanthropists including over 3 hours of MCLE Ethics Credits and 6 hours of CPE credits.
This year’s conference will include announcements regarding Philanthropy WV’s new collaborative efforts around Education, unveiling of the 2014 WV’s State of Philanthropy Report, and future combined work in the state to address pressing issues. The dynamic program is thanks to the generous sponsorships of: Maier Foundation’s Ethics in Philanthropy Series, McKinley Carter Wealth Services, the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Fifth Third Bank & Clear Arc Capital, New River Gorge Regional Development Authority, WesBanco Trust & Investment Services, Campbell Woods Law Firm, City National, Employer’s Innovative Network, First Community Bank, Foundant Technologies, Graystone Consulting: a business of Morgan Stanley, Highmark West Virginia, PracticeLink and Custom Business Solutions.
Advanced registration is required and the event is a NON-solicitation event among the philanthropic community. Details are available at www.philanthropywv.org and following: @PhilanthropyWV on twitter.
