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Friday, October 18 • 7:45am - 10:00am
Breakfast Mini-Plenary: Funding Advocacy and Policy Change

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Join your colleagues for breakfast at tables featuring discussions on causes you care about.

Advocacy is an important tool for family philanthropists seeking to address mounting issues of inequality or for those who recognize that funding direct services alone is not enough to create lasting change. Advocacy, including grassroots organizing and policy advocacy, involves efforts to change the law or how the law is applied in order to address an injustice. Advocacy can support the democratic process by including the voices of those who are historically marginalized and facilitating their participation in the democratic process. In addition, successful advocacy efforts can change public opinion, defend existing rights or benefits, or make a compelling case to reverse or correct a situation.
Speakers
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Tony Bowen

Senior Consultant, FMA
As Senior Consultant with FMA, Tony works with FMA’s Consulting and Advisory Services team to deliver strategic and operational insights to nonprofit and philanthropic clients across the country. Tony has served in foundation leadership and has a passion for building the capacity... Read More →
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Phyllis Glink

Executive Director, Irving Harris Foundation
Phyllis Glink is the Executive Director of the Irving Harris Foundation. In her over two decades with the Foundation she has led, developed and implemented its grantmaking and field leadership work in the areas of early childhood development and child and family welfare, reproductive... Read More →
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Crystal Hayling

Executive Director, The Libra Foundation
Crystal Hayling is the Executive Director of The Libra Foundation, a family foundation that brings a racial justice lens to its grantmaking in the areas of gender justice, environmental justice and criminal justice reform. Previously, she was the managing director for the Environment... Read More →
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Regan Pritzker

President, The Libra Foundation
Regan Pritzker has a background in education and now works at her family office, Tao Capital Partners, where she is helping to move capital in bolder and increasingly integrated ways in service of building a more just and equitable world. She serves as President and chair of the investment... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2019 7:45am - 10:00am
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile 540 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611
  Grantmaking and Investment Strategies