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Donors Forum's Annual Luncheon is considered the region's premier networking and educational event for staff members, volunteers, and advisors engaged in philanthropy, nonprofits, and social ventures. It is open to all, regardless of membership in Donors Forum.

Uncertainty in Europe, energy price fluctuations, constraints on state and local governments, and the impending “fiscal cliff” of federal spending cuts and tax increases pose especially complex challenges for America’s economic future.

The twenty-first century seemed destined to be the American century, but within the first decade, the stock market bubble, costly foreign interventions, and the financial catastrophe of 2008 jolted America into a sudden recognition of its systemic vulnerability.