Publication date:
03/2012
Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania (GWP), a regional membership organization of over 80 funders, invited its members and other community leaders to a forum to learn how funders can initiate significant change in a field. The idea for the program arose from the team of advisors to GWP’s EngAGEment initiative1, who had been working to build a broad base of support for enhancing healthy aging across the region. They realized that the EngAGEment initiative could leap forward by listening to what other funders had done to advance an important issue—and that the lessons learned could benefit philanthropists, regardless of their field of interest.