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“The Philanthropy Roundtable hosts what may be the most intellectually stimulating meetings in the field of philanthropy.”
—Paul Brest, president, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting is The Philanthropy Roundtable’s flagship event. Donors from across the country meet to share ideas, strategies, and best practices, and hear from America’s leading experts in private innovation and forward-thinking policy. Participants discuss programmatic and principled charitable investments that promote liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility in America and abroad.

The goal of the Annual Meeting is to offer our Members the opportunity to engage with the country’s best minds on the latest private sector philanthropic achievements and to network in an environment free of solicitation.

The Philanthropy Roundtable will host its 2010 Annual Meeting, Explore, Dream, Discover: The Power of Philanthropy, on October 14-16, at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida.

The Philanthropy Roundtable hosted its 2009 Annual Meeting, Peak Performance in Philanthropy, on October 1-3, at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Topics addressed at our Annual Meetings range widely, and include K-12 education, health care, social services, arts and culture, higher education, public policy, conservation, national security, and philanthropic freedom.

“The Annual Meetings are really interesting and practical, and those attending those meetings mostly are high-level foundation executives and trustees, rather than program staff. Aside from the meetings, the Roundtable staff, including President Adam Meyerson, bend over backwards for you when you need consultants or want to meet people to whom you otherwise might not have easy access.”
—Donn Weinberg, chairman, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Regional Meetings

The Roundtable’s programs and services for donors include regional meetings and dinners, held in different cities throughout the year, that bring donors together to discuss issues of common concern, such as education reform, conservation, faith-based charities, welfare reform, international giving, higher education, national security, and philanthropic freedom. Roundtable Members find that these smaller, more intimate meetings enable them to better network with peers who share similar concerns and interests and to gain access to a range of ideas and approaches to giving and information on what works—and what doesn't.

In order to provide a solicitation-free environment, these programs are only open to Members of the Roundtable, individual donors and families, corporate giving executives, and foundation trustees and staff who make at least $50,000 in charitable donations per year. They are not fundraising events. For more information on our qualification policy, click here.