October 23, 2008
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Independence Seaport Museum
Philadelphia, PA

DVG is pleased to announce our 2008 Annual Conference and 20th Anniversary Celebration will take place on Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Independence Seaport Museum on Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

This year's event will focus on the theme of LEADERSHIP. The sea change ahead – including economic uncertainty, generational shifts, and rapidly changing technology – will shape how we attract and grow new leaders. As we work together to better the lives of people in our region, what kind of leadership must we foster in order to create organizations with the resiliency and adaptability to weather these changes? What is different about leadership today, and what particular skills and competencies will these new leaders need to successfully operate in this fast-paced, highly-networked world?

As DVG celebrates its twentieth year as the region’s forum for philanthropy, we invite you to join us for an interactive dialogue on the evolution of leadership and how we as a sector must prepare and adapt in order to be effective agents of change.

We are excited to present these two outstanding speakers at this year's event:

Marianne Hughes
Executive Director
Interaction Institute for Social Change Marianne Hughes combines her social policy expertise, organizing skills, devotion to social justice, and deep faith in the human capacity for goodness to furthering IISC’s mission. In addition to delivering training, consulting, coaching, and facilitation services, Hughes leads the ongoing development of new services for IISC, as well as organizational thinking and learning about innovative ways to create high impact social change.

Emmett D. Carson, Ph.D.
CEO and President
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Emmett Carson, internationally recognized as a catalyst for progressive social change, serves as the first CEO and President of the $1.9 billion Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which resulted from the historic merger of Community Foundation Silicon Valley and Peninsula Community Foundation.  Previously, Carson served as the first manager of the Ford Foundation's worldwide grantmaking program on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector and as President and CEO of The Minneapolis Foundation, and is past Chair of the Council on Foundations.

NOTE: DVG is committed to providing a forum for professional networking, therefore we ask that ALL attendees respect the learning environment of the conference and refrain from soliciting funds or business during this event.