Peter Hero: Senior Advisor to the CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the former president of Community Foundation Silicon Valley. During his 17-year tenure, Community Foundation Silicon Valley grew from a small foundation with less than $10 million in assets and only three staff to a regional center for philanthropy, with more than 600 philanthropic funds under its umbrella, including 12 supporting foundations and 25 corporate advised funds. Peter is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford business school and his writing on community development and philanthropy has been published in the United States and Europe.

Albert Ruesga: Vice President, Programs and Communications, of the Meyer Foundation and chair of Hispanics in Philanthropy. Prior to joining the Meyer Foundation, Albert served as the foundation director of the New Ventures in Philanthropy initiative of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers. Prior to that, Albert was the donor resources manager at the Boston Foundation. He is also a volunteer instructor for The Grantmaking School based at Grand Valley State University. Check out his blog!

Breakout sessions an speakers to be announced shortly.

Registration: Save your space by e-mail to: conference@sdgrantmakers.org. Registration form (for mail or fax)coming soon. Reserve your seat today! Registrations are due by October 19, 2007.

The registration fee is $125 per person for San Diego Grantmakers members, and $175 per person for non-member grantmakers.