60th Annual Conference

Marriott Marquis | Atlanta, GA | May 4–6, 2009

2009 Annual Conference Committee

Kathryn E. Merchant (Chair)
President and CEO
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Ann Cramer (Co-Chair)
Director, North America, IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs
IBM Corporation

Mike Howland (Co-Chair)
President and CEO
Southeastern Council on Foundations

Akhtar Badshah
Senior Director of Global Community Affairs
Microsoft

Sherry Salway Black
Board Member
Theodore R. & Vivian M. Johnson Scholarship Foundation

Jason Franklin
Deputy Director for Programs and Development
21st Century School Fund

P. Russell Hardin
President
Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc.

Gail C. Hayes
Atlanta Civic Site Manager
Annie E. Casey Foundation

Lynn Walker Huntley
President & CEO
Southern Education Foundation, Inc.

Greg Johnson
Executive Director
Sports Philanthropy Project

Michael Kay
Board Chair
Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta

Martin C. Lehfeldt
Senior Advisor
Southeastern Council of Foundations

Patricia N. Mathews
Executive Director
Northern Virginia Health Foundation

Penelope L. McPhee
President
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Lawrence Moreland
Senior Vice President, Finance & Administration and Assistant Treasurer
William T. Grant Foundation

Gary D. Nelson
President
Healthcare Georgia Foundation, Inc.

Alicia Philipp
President
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Cynthia Ryan
Principal
The Schooner Organization

Peggy Saika
President/CEO
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy

Michael D. Smith
Director, Social Investment
The Case Foundation

Rusty Morgan Stahl
Executive Director
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy

Sarah Stranahan
Board Member/Trustee
The Needmor Fund

Arthur Sussman
Vice President and Secretary
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Andrea L. Taylor
Director, North America
Microsoft

Annual Conference Committee Mission Statement

The mission of the Annual Conference Committee is to develop a conference that provides challenging, provocative and enriching educational and networking experiences. Conference activities designed by the committee seek to reflect the diversity of the field and to meet the educational needs and interests of a wide range of grantmakers. The committee encourages participants to be active learners and offer new and stimulating ideas, models and approaches to grantmaking and to managing grantmaking resources. The Annual Conference Committee and the Host Committee work in tandem to maximize the educational opportunities available in the host community to challenge and stimulate conference participants.

60th Annual Conference

Marriott Marquis | Atlanta, GA | May 4–6, 2009

2009 Annual Conference Committee

Annual Conference Committee Mission Statement

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