A Network for Funders in the Bluegrass State

This year's event will feature a new format as we explore strategies to effectively collaborate and engage with the communities we serve while connecting with peers across the Commonwealth.

Program & Agenda:
2025 Program Book

Meeting Materials:
Presentation Resources

This year's event will feature a new format as we explore strategies to effectively collaborate and engage with the communities we serve while connecting with peers across the Commonwealth.

Program & Agenda:
2024 Program Book

Meeting Materials:
Presentation Resources

For this year’s meeting, we are turning our focus outward to look at the ecosystems in which we operate and the external forces that are making an impact in the communities we serve. How do overarching trends – a decline in charitable giving, threats to our democracy – affect our role? How do nonprofit partners see us? What can we do about immediate dangers facing families and children, like gun violence? These questions lie at the heart of this year’s agenda. Along with hearing from many voices outside our field, we will also provide dedicated time to unpacking what we’ve learned and how it will shape our work going forward.

Program & Agenda:
2024 Program Book

Meeting Materials:
Presentation Resources

Polarization, partisanship, politicization – these three words have often been used to explain away persistent divisions in our communities that have gotten in the way of progress. But is this conventional wisdom correct? At this year’s Grantmakers of Kentucky meeting, we’ll explore this question and others as we examine how philanthropy can help communities find their way to common ground, common goals and shared progress.

Program & Agenda:
2024 Program Book

Meeting Materials:
Presentation Resources

What lessons are we learning as we grapple with a devastating pandemic? What will change as we assess philanthropy’s role in the fight for racial equity? How do we bring people together at a time when politicization and polarization shape opinions on so many issues? These are only a few of the questions that have arisen over the last 18 months. Over two days in Louisville, we will address these issues and others as we meet to reflect upon an unprecedented time for our sector and the Commonwealth.

Program & Agenda:
2024 Program Book

Meeting Materials:
Presentation Resources

Danielle Clore from the Kentucky Nonprofit Network and Ann Coffey from the Center for Nonprofit Excellence share survey data and their perspectives on the changing needs of the sector and the ways that philanthropy can support nonprofit organizations. Some of the questions discussed include:

How are nonprofit organizations being affected now versus earlier in the pandemic?
How is the sector planning for the future?
What do nonprofit organizations need from philanthropy going forward? What needs are more immediate versus long-term?

Speakers:

Danielle Clore, Executive Director/CEO, Kentucky Nonprofit Network
Ann L. Coffey, CEO, Center for Nonprofit Excellence

View the webinar here.

Interested in knowing more or getting involved with Grantmakers of Kentucky? Contact S.E. Spencer Keziah, Philanthropy Southeast's Manager, Partnerships & Program Development, at [email protected] or at (404) 524-0911.

For general questions, contact S.E. Spencer Keziah, Philanthropy Southeast's Manager, Partnerships & Program Development, at [email protected] or at (404) 524-0911.