Why You Should Attend:

• This conference's practical, hands-on, and thought-provoking content will help you power your communities through improving your business operations.


• Change! is an imperative facing many community foundations across America. This conference will enable you to Thrive! by learning how to do business differently.


• We heard you loud and clear. You'll find this conference closely aligned with the traditional aspects of the Council's fall conferences that made these gatherings such perennial successes. [Visit last year's wrap site.]


• Along with respecting traditions, the 2010 fall conference strongly emphasizes cutting-edge grantmaking, technology, investments, and best practices. Come to Charlotte and you will meet with community foundation staff and management who are pursuing some of the smartest strategies our field has seen in this new century.


• 2010 marks the first time IN THREE YEARS that those who work at community foundations have had an opportunity to meet as a single, separate, unique group. We have a lot of catching up to do. Let's start in September in Charlotte.


• You'll find sessions designed FOR community foundation professionals BY community foundation professionals. What's more, sessions are tailored for you in your current role, whether it's CEO, trustee, program officer, finance officer, communications officer, or development/donor services officer.


• We're putting out the welcome mat for newcomers, and we're rolling out the red carpet for our veteran participants!


• Power networking is a hallmark of this conference. Nothing will ever replace the opportunities that occur during a gathering like the fall conference for community foundations...the conversation that was too fascinating to stop at the end of a session's Q and A...a chance encounter over coffee with someone who solved a problem that now faces your foundation…and best of all, an opportunity to help someone else.


• This conference's keynote speakers will have you out of chairs, on your feet, applauding, and thinking!


• The NASCAR Hall of Fame, a new museum that's being talked about everywhere, including the The New York Times, will be barely four months old when the fall conference opens in Charlotte. And we will be holding an exclusive reception there! Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to be among the very first groups to visit the NASCAR Hall of Fame.


• You'll have a chance to see Charlotte as few outsiders ever do. Site sessions will help you learn about powering the creativity of young people, the evolution of a New South city, and innovations in human services. These are not show-and-tell tours but are highly interactive experiences that will have you passionately engaged.

Just Announced! Win an Apple iPad!

The Council will give away two iPads — one during the Community Foundations Leadership Team (CFLT) plenary session and the other during the Community Central reception.

Be sure to join us at these two exciting events for your chance to WIN!