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EVENTS

Professional Advisors Holiday Mixer
December 7, 2011



LGBT Community Endowment Fund
Givers and Shakers Conference
A day of learning, sharing, and exploring philanthropy with larger givers to the LGBT community

Many thanks to everyone who joined us for this day of content-rich community building for individuals who currently give or have the capacity to give at least $5,000 annually to LGBT organizations.

Sunday, January 27, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

A Horizons Foundation event, sponsored by
Northern Trust and DLKLawGroup

Here was the agenda for the day:

9:00 a.m. Breakfast and Registration Opening Plenary: What Can the LGBT Community Learn from the Jewish Community's Approaches to Philanthropy?
Keynote Speech: Where LGBT Rights Fit in the Larger Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
The Philanthropic Reality Show: Donors Discuss Why, Where, and How They Are Leaving Their Estates
9:30 a.m. Framing the Day: Roger Doughty and Julie Dorf
9:45 a.m. Opening Plenary: What Can the LGBT Community Learn from the Jewish Community's Approaches to Philanthropy?
Phyllis Cook, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, Alvin Baum, donor and Kathy Levinson, donor.
Moderated by Mark Reisbaum
11:15 a.m. Break-Out Session #1
Funding the Arts -- led by Jewelle Gomez, John Killacky and John McGuirk
Giving Vehicles: What is right for me? -- led by John Bare
Couples and Giving: How Do You Do It When There is Unequal Wealth? -- led by Frederick Hertz
12:15 p.m. Lunch prepared by Chef Nicolaus Balla at O Izakaya Lounge
Keynote Speech: Where LGBT Rights Fit in the Larger Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
Anthony Romero, the first gay and Latino Executive Director of the ACLU
Listen to the Keynote Speech [MP3]
2:00 p.m. Break-Out Session #2
Collaborative Giving and Philanthropic Intermediaries -- led by Leonie Walker
Political Giving -- led by Dave Gleba and Dave Ring
3:00 p.m. Japanese Tea Break
3:15 p.m. The Philanthropic Reality Show: Donors Discuss Why, Where, and How They Are Leaving Their Estates
4:30 p.m. Sake Tasting and Moment with the Sponsors: Elizabeth Pearce of Northern Trust and Deb Kinney of DLKLawGroup
Closing by Roger Doughty