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Climbing HigherWorking Together to Reach
New Heights in Aging Philanthropy
October 26–28, 2016The Nines Hotel | Portland, Oregon
2016 Sponsorship Opportunities
2016 Annual Conference
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About GIAGrantmakers In Aging (GIA) is an inclusive and responsive membership organization that is a national catalyst for philanthropy, with a common dedication to improving the experience of aging. GIA members have a shared recognition that a society that is better for older adults is a society that is better for people of all ages. GIA’s membership includes leading staff and trustees of private, family, community, public, operating, and corporate foundations that are involved directly or indirectly with philanthropy and aging. It also includes corporate giving programs, private and public charities, social venture capital groups, individual philanthropists, and bank trust departments or trust companies that administer charitable trusts or foundations making grants for charitable purposes.
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About the GIA ConferenceGIA welcomes all organizations interested in aging and philanthropy—foundations, grantmaking organizations, corporate giving programs—to attend the GIA Annual Conference. Over the years, it’s become the premier source of information and inspiration for any organization that wants to support aging-related programs. The conference is designed to be a stimulating and productive experience for people in all types of roles in your organization, including staff, trustees, directors, consultants, and donors. In short, it’s for anyone who cares about older adults and understands how aging issues affect the whole spectrum of philanthropic priorities, from health and education to community and intergenerational issues.
Here are some of the many benefits GIA’s Annual Conference can bring to any funder:
• An introduction to dynamic programs, applicable tools, and relevant publications that promote effectiveness and excellence in aging-related philanthropy.
• Access to internationally renowned thought leaders in the aging field, from some of the most prestigious aging-related organizations and educational programs in the U.S.
• Meaningful opportunities for networking, development, intelligence sharing, and support, with more than 100 other philanthropic organizations of all sizes, types, and geographical focus.
• A variety of platforms to support different learning styles and to facilitate sharing of information.
• Access to technical assistance, resource sharing, and mentoring.
• Our “Best of the Region” session, which offers visibility for impressive local programs for older adults, such as projects you may be supporting to improve transportation, community design, park programs, older adult employment, or other related issues.
• Half-day site visits that introduce funders and experts from across the nation to successful programs in action in the host city.
• The opportunity for outstanding graduate and post-doctoral students from the host region to participate in the GIA Fellows Program, which allows them to attend the conference and learn firsthand about challenges and opportunities in our aging society. Nominated and selected from a wide range of aging-related disciplines, the GIA Fellows will report on aging research within their respective fields of study at the conference.
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Portland 2016Each year, in October, GIA holds its Annual Conference, with more than 100 top local and national funders, in one of America’s great cities. For 2016, we’re excited about the prospect of bringing our meeting to Portland, Oregon. Tax-free, pretense-free, and fancy-free, Portland offers the perfect venue to bring fresh perspectives—and fresh thinking—to our conference attendees. The Nines Hotel, the site of the meeting, sits next to Pioneer Square and the central business district, which makes it easy to reach nearby boutiques, dine in the trendy Pearl District, or crawl the many breweries and microdistilleries.
More important, Portland exemplifies age-friendly living like no other city. It’s one of the country’s premier walking cities and offers a number of opportunities to explore the weird, wild, and wonderful. Plus, an eco-friendly light rail system can connect attendees to beautiful gardens, museum grounds, chic neighborhoods and even to the mountains that form Portland’s stunning backdrop.
Join GIA in Portland for our 2016 Annual Conference. It may be only three days of meeting time, but its impact will be felt for months to come.
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Climbing Higher: Working Together to Reach New Heights in Aging Philanthropy
The last 12 months have been heady times in the world of aging. As the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Older Americans Act, as well as the 80th anniversary of Social Security, leaders, legislators, and representatives of nonprofits came together in Washington DC for the White House Conference on
Aging. It wasn’t a gathering focused exclusively on past achievements, but instead announced a number of forward-thinking programs designed to improve the lives of older adults in the United States.
Those lives unfold in communities large and small, rural and urban, requiring new approaches to delivering medical care (including palliative care), services, housing, and transportation so that people of all ages can grow up and grow older comfortably, surrounded by friends, family, and neighbors. This age-friendly movement, with critical support from philanthropy, has recently produced a wealth of knowledge about what makes a community livable and what concrete steps can be taken, both in the built and social environment, to make it happen. It has also produced knowledge about what structures need to be in place, from a community perspective, to support older adults in a variety of settings.
Funders in aging continue to be at the forefront of identifying new, even transformative, strategies to reinvent health care, caregiving, housing, transportation, lifelong learning, and community development that make sense for an aging population. We continue to develop our understanding of what matters most to older adults, whether they are active, recent retirees or frail or disabled, nearing the end of their lives. As 10,000 people turn 65 each day, we are responding, in real time, to the need to ensure older people remain deeply engaged in, connected to, and cared for in our communities. And there’s no better place to embrace these issues than in Portland, Oregon, a city and region that continually strives to be a place where people of all ages and abilities can thrive.
Join us in Portland this October, for GIA’s 2016 Annual Conference, and discover how, working together, we can climb higher as we strive to redefine aging—and aging philanthropy.
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GIA Conference By the Numbers
Senior Staff Member
First-Time Attendees
Who Attends
Number of GIA Conferences
Board Member/Trustee/Donor
6+ Years
President/CEO/Executive Director
2 – 5 Years
Consultant
Attendees from 28 states
63%
37% 38%
25%
12% 14%
11%
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Foundation Type
Level of Grantmaking
$750,000 to $999,999
Over $1 million
Public Charity
Less than $250,000
$250,000 to $749,999
Community Foundation
Family/Individual Foundation
Operating Foundation
Private/Independent Foundation
Corporate Foundation
Corporate Giving Program
41%
47%
20%
22%
11%
10% 15%
8%2%
3%
21%
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Sponsorship Levels At A Glance
Premier Sponsor
• $100,000 and above
Priority Sponsor
• $50,000
Presenting Sponsor
• $30,000
Participating Sponsor
• $20,000
Patron Sponsor
• $10,000
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Sponsorship Levels In Detail
• Acknowledgment as a Premier Level Sponsor in conference materials, with prominent logo placement in the conference program, conference website, and on-site signage
• Opportunity to design content with GIA and introduce opening plenary session
• Member spotlight on GIA website prior to the conference
• Featured in conference-related email
• Opportunity to design content and present during our monthly webinar series, “Conversations with GIA”
• Four complimentary conference registrations
• Acknowledgment as a Priority Level Sponsor in conference materials,
with prominent logo placement in the conference program, conference website, and on-site signage
• Opportunity to design content with GIA for one conference-intensive session
• Member spotlight on GIA website prior to the conference
• Featured in conference-related email
• Two complimentary conference registrations
• Acknowledgment as a Presenting Level Sponsor in conference
materials, with logo placement in the conference program, conference website, and on-site signage
• Opportunity to introduce Thursday luncheon or Friday morning plenary session
• One complimentary conference registration
PREMIER
PRIORITY
PRESENTING
$100,000+
$50,000
$30,000
“We’ve received some great advice from Michael Marcus of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc., whom we first met at GIA’s 2012 conference.”
— Katie Midgley, Director of Research and Evaluation, Plough Foundation
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Sponsorship Levels In Detail
• Acknowledgment as a Participating Level Sponsor in conference materials, with logo placement in the conference program, conference website, and on-site signage
• Opportunity to design a 60-minute concurrent session
• One complimentary conference registration
• Acknowledgment as a Patron Level Sponsor in conference materials, with logo placement in the conference program, conference website and on-site signage
PARTICIPATING
PATRON
$20,000
$10,000
To learn more or to become a sponsor, contact: John Feather, GIA CEO
(703) [email protected]
“I wanted to connect with experts in the field, so I went to one of the conferences and was really impressed with the quality. GIA has been great to work with.”
— Chris Nanni, President and CEO, Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
“[GIA’s annual conference] helped us be a better conduit for federal funding that was being awarded to local nonprofits.”
— Mary O’Donnell, Senior Program Officer, The Retirement Research Foundation
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