GCRI Events
November 14, 2025
8:30 – 11:30am
Providence Public Library
Our Annual Meeting brings together Rhode Island’s philanthropic community to gain inspiration, learn about current trends, and share ideas with your peers.
Meeting Agenda
Registration & Networking
8:30 – 9:00am
KEYNOTE
This year’s keynote speaker will be Dimple Abichandani, a nationally recognized philanthropic leader, lawyer, advisor, and author of A New Era of Philanthropy: Ten Practices to Transform Wealth Into a More Just and Sustainable Future, a book that reimagines how philanthropy can meet this moment.
PANEL
The second half of the meeting will be a panel on the topic of how to be both visionary and responsive in the current climate. Rhode Island philanthropy leaders will share their responses to the challenges presented by the current moment—in particular, how they are balancing investments that are responsive to critical needs with investments in long-term, strategic and visionary efforts. Hear their perspectives on philanthropy’s role in this moment, concrete examples of responses, and the philanthropic sector can work together as an ‘ecosystem.’
Moderator:
David Cicilline
President & CEO
Rhode Island Foundation
Panelists:
Beth Chandler
Executive Director
Point32 Health Foundation
Elizabeth Lynn
Executive Director
van Beuren Charitable Foundation
Cortney Nicolato
CEO
United Way of Rhode Island
Rates
Members: $25
Non-member philanthropic organizations: $45
Note: A small processing fee is added to each registration by Eventbrite.
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