Registration is now open for the 2024 Fall Retreat!
We invite EGA members to join us at the largest gathering for our community, on September 22 - 25 in Stevenson, Washington! The 2024 Fall Retreat occurs within the context of a high stakes for climate collaboration, connected advocacy, and infrastructure alliances across the globe. Philanthropy is redefining its role in this moment of internal shift, external transition and necessary cooperation. EGA gathers grantmakers who want to bolster trust, mutual understanding, and peer learning space within the environmental movement.
This year’s Winter Briefing in Baltimore, MD offered momentum to strategize around how grantmakers resource in the gap between federal initiatives and hyper local advocacy. We learned from tribal sovereigns, local groups, public advocates, elected officials, funder peers, and community to glean practices in progress to restore a healthy democracy for a healthy planet. We dug deep on co-management, water, transport and infrastructure. As we shift our gaze to the Pacific Northwest we will continue this thread and explore how grantmakers can work to challenge race at the systems level with sustainable strategies. And we will celebrate the groundbreaking work of community leadership for people and the planet.
Stevenson, WA is a part of the Columbia River Basin, a sacred region for Indigenous nations for over 15,000 years. The land is home to the Chinook Indian Nation, The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, The Yakama Nation, the Wanapum, and the Nez Perce. The ecologic and cultural diversity present in the basin is a present and thriving opportunity for our community to honor and understand the work of Indigenous stewardship in the environmental movement.
We’re curating a space for EGA members to form creative solutions in the face of compounding threats to crumbling systems. During the Retreat we will consider the impact of human activity and environmental degradation in the Columbia River Basin and draw lessons that build connections for greater impact.
