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We hope you’ll join TFN’s GREEN 2025 Annual Meeting taking place May 20-21 in Savannah!

Tap into the collective wisdom of the GREEN working group and other funders as we explore climate and environmental justice, community resiliency and supporting a vibrant green economy and workforce for all.

On Day One, we’ll dive into the resilient, community-driven efforts underway in Georgia and the Coastal Region. Our morning panel discussion will feature place-based leaders like Rachael Thompson, Executive Director of the Glynn Environmental Coalition, and panel moderator Patrick King II, Georgia State Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

We’ll then take our learning outside the conference room and travel to the Pin Point Community, a historic Gullah-Geechee community located 25 minutes from downtown Savannah. We’ll meet with community members and partners supporting resilience planning and cultural preservation in this unincorporated community in Chatham County.

On Day Two, we’ll provide the space to learn and strategize with your funder peers. Our Funder Fishbowl — Despite Tough Times, Communities are Rising Above and Beyond — will allow funders to share how they are adjusting strategies and approaches to their work in the face of an increasingly hostile federal landscape for climate and environmental justice.

We’ll also hear from Meg Coker, Editor in Chief of The Current — a nonprofit news organization that focuses on environment, health, public safety, education and government throughout coastal Georgia.

 

Agenda Overview

Monday, May 19

  • 6:30-8:30 p.m. — Optional Dinner for Funders

Tuesday, May 20 — Learning from Place

Wednesday, May 21 — Learning from Peers

  • 8 a.m. — Breakfast and Networking
  • 9 a.m. — Small Group Conversations with Facilitators
  • 9:45 a.m. — Funder Fishbowl: Despite Tough Times, Communities are Rising Above and Beyond
  • 11 a.m. — Deeper Dive Breakouts with topics including:
    • Funding community leaders and nonprofit civic infrastructure
    • Defending the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and BIL awards
    • Workforce and the green economy
    • Investing in narrative change
  • 12 p.m. — Lunch with Meg Coker, Editor in Chief of The Current
  • 1 p.m. — Closing Circle: Insights, Commitments and TFN Opportunities
  • 2 p.m. — Adjourn

Lodging

TFN has reserved a block of rooms for Monday and Tuesday (May 19-20) at Hotel Indigo Savannah with a lodging rate of $214. The Funders Network room block includes a $10 discount on the destination fee, which will be applied upon checkout. Click here to make your reservation or please call the hotel at  877-666-3243 and reference The Funders Network.

Please contact Ashley Quintana at ashley@fundersnetwork.org if you are having problems making a reservation.

Who should attend?

Registration is open to donors, staff, directors and trustees of all grantmaking institutions. We are seeking to create an intimate gathering of funders with the goal of learning, sharing and facilitating strategic conversations about where philanthropic resources can have the greatest impact.

Registration

Newcomers welcome! Join us if you are already engaged with TFN’s GREEN working group — or are looking to learn more about us.

Registration is open to donors, staff, directors and trustees of all grantmaking institutions.

  • $300 for Members
  • $500 for non-members

For questions regarding group rates, please contact Ashley Quintana at ashley@fundersnetwork.org.

Thank You

Thank you to our funder planning committee for their ideas, guidance and assistance in planning this meeting:

About Green

The GREEN working group helps funders connect and learn together, align around shared ideas and strategies and support strategic collaborations and joint projects that advance sustainable, equitable and prosperous regions and communities. Funders have a special interest in the following issues:

  • Community-led climate action.
  • Funder practices to advance racial equity.
  • Equitable implementation of federal and state climate and clean energy investments, including equitable and sustainable community/government partnerships.
  • Climate-supportive workforce and cooperative business opportunities.

For more information about TFN’s GREEN working group, reach out to Ashley Quintana at ashley@fundersnetwork.org.