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Environmental Grantmakers Group Retreat | REGISTER
Tuesday, July 8 | Donors Forum Conference Room | Noon - 2 pm (lunch provided)
Join your colleagues for the Environmental Grantmakers Group Summer Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and help to keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The retreat will also include a discussion of the results of our recent survey regarding local funding priorities and gaps. The Environmental Grantmakers Group provides a forum for discussion of emerging issues and topics of mutual interest to environmental funders, as well as a means by which to identify opportunities to partner for synergistic and collaborative giving to further environmental solutions.

Funding LGBT Issues Group Retreat | REGISTER
Wednesday, July 9 | Donors Forum Conference Room | Noon - 2 pm (lunch provided)
Join your colleagues for the Funding LGBT Issues Group Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and to help keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The Funding LGBT Issues Group advocates for increased philanthropic resources to organizations serving lesbians and gays.

Community Building Task Force Retreat | REGISTER
Wednesday, July 16 | Donors Forum Conference Room | 8:30 - 10:30 am (breakfast provided)
Join your colleagues for the Community Building Task Force Summer Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and help to keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The Community Building Task Force seeks to understand and support community-based efforts to strengthen the economic and social fabric of low-income neighborhoods.

MicroEdge Users Group Retreat | REGISTER
Wednesday, July 16 | Donors Forum Conference Room | Noon - 2 pm (lunch provided)
Join your colleagues for the MicroEdge Users Group Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and to help keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The MicroEdge Users Group shares database user and manager challenges and solutions.

Chicago Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Retreat | REGISTER
Friday, July 18 | Donors Forum Conference Room | 8:30 - 10:30 am (breakfast provided)
Join your colleagues for the Chicago Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Summer Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and help to keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. Chicago Grantmakers for Effective Organizations promotes and advocates practices that develop and sustain organizational effectiveness among funders and nonprofit organizations and encourages the use of philanthropic resources to create strong, effective, and responsive nonprofit organizations.

Grantmakers Concerned with Poverty Retreat | REGISTER
Monday, July 21 | Donors Forum Conference Room | Noon - 2 pm
The Grantamkers Concerned with Poverty Group at Donors Forum brings together philanthropic resources and uses the influences of Chicago's funding community to advocate for increased funding as well as public policy changes that address poverty in Chicago.

Peer Network for New Grantmakers Retreat | REGISTER
Tuesday, July 22 | Donors Forum Conference Room | 8:30 - 10:30 am (breakfast provided)
Join your colleagues for the Peer Network for New Grantmakers Summer Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and help to keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The Peer Network of New Grantmakers is an informal group of grantmakers who have been in the philanthropic field for less than five years.

Employee Volunteer Program Managers Retreat | REGISTER
Tuesday, July 22 | Donors Forum Conference Room | Noon - 2 pm
Donors Forum's Employee Volunteer Managers Group promotes the culture of workplace volunteerism and its use as a strategic tool for addressing community needs, business goals, and employee interests.

Corporate Committee Planning Retreat | REGISTER
Wednesday, July 23 | Donors Forum Conference Room | 8:30 - 10:30 am (8 am networking breakfast)
Join your colleagues for the Corporate Committee Planning Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and help to keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The Corporate Committee plans opportunities for networking and educational programs that focus on trends and issues specific to corporate philanthropy.

Health Program Affinity Group Retreat | REGISTER
Wednesday, July 23 | Donors Forum Conference Room | Noon - 2 pm (lunch provided)
Join your colleagues for the Health Program Affinity Group Summer Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and help to keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The Health Program Affinity Group seeks to inform the greater Chicago philanthropic and nonprofit community about the issues surrounding health and healthcare policy through interactive dialogue and outreach.

Education Funders Group Retreat | REGISTER
Thursday, July 24 | Donors Forum Conference Room | 8:30 - 10:30 am (breakfast provided)
Join your colleagues for the Education Funders Group Retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and to help keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The Education Funders Group promotes quality public education in Chicago with particular emphasis on school reform.

Arts and Culture Funders Group Retreat | REGISTER
Thursday, July 24 | Donors Forum Conference Room | Noon - 2:00 pm (lunch provided)
Join your colleagues for the Arts and Culture Funders Group summer retreat. This is a great opportunity to share your ideas on program topics and speakers and help to keep programs relevant and valuable to your work. The Arts and Culture Funders Group focuses on a wide variety of issues that relate to funding arts and culture organizations and institutions.

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