Welcome to the 2021 EGA Fall Retreat! We are thrilled to present the Fall Retreat this October 5th to 7th as a hybrid event experience. We will create a welcoming opportunity to participate in a completely virtual event, with opportunities to gather regionally for dispersed, in-person meetups in proximity to our members’ foundation offices across the country.
The agenda will include topics and themes connected to movements on the ground, and the local and regional action in the US and the Global South as we reflect on the history of our evolution towards liberation. The work of care and repair is only just beginning, and we are planning to journey in our conversation, exploration, and activity into the work of racial equity, and what it demands in restorative measures. We look forward to connecting the themes of the Fall Retreat to our national conversation on race, the environment, and fights for representation.
The virtual event will offer place-based interactivity and the chance to meet with new and familiar colleagues in creative ways. While we will meet in-person as a full community in Montgomery in 2023, this year we will follow the path of the Great Migration from the Southeast as we deepen our learning on the racial history of our nation and build strategies for generative action, at the intersection of the environmental movement and the movement for justice.
The Fall Retreat is our next opportunity to reconnect and consider the future of environmental philanthropy, and recommit to supporting an equitable, sustainable, and thriving planet. The Retreat is also our moment to gather and collect our best ideas and experiments. We are committed to ensuring a safe experience for our membership, invited guests, vendors, and extended community. The pandemic has illuminated the harm of deep inequities in our systems, especially the unequal impact on the pandemic on racialized communities in the United States and around the world.
If you are interested in participating in an in-person pod connected to the Fall Retreat, we invite you to share your interest in event registration. See you in October!
