If your organization intends to apply for funding from The Dayton Foundation, we highly recommend that you attend the Foundation's discretinary grants program orientation on Wednesday, June 25, from 9 to 10:30 a.m.

This free, 90-minute session will help explain the Foundation's grant application process and funding guidelines.

Click here to register online.

The first step in the Foundation's discretionary grant application process is to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) through our online LOI system. The LOI provides the Foundation with an overview of a not-for-profit organization's funding request. If, after the Grants Committee has reviewed your organization's LOI and determined that the project falls within our funding guidelines, you will be sent a full grant application.

Click here to access the Letter of Intent system.

James E. Gillespie, CFRE, president of CommonWealth, will present "How to Incorporate the Charitable Question When Working with Clients, Prospects and Other Professional Advisors" on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, at Wright State University.

Jim Gillespie founded CommonWealth in 1995 as a philanthropic consulting organization specializing in resource development for not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Gillespie's national reputation in the fundraising arena is well-established. With over 25 years experience in the field, his strengths lie in the design and implementation of planned giving, major gift and capital campaign programs, the development of charitable infrastructures, and training and mentoring administration, board members, staff and volunteers.

This seminar is sponsored by The Dayton Foundation; Fifth Third Bank; Merrill Lynch; Planned Giving Council of Greater Dayton; Taft, Stettinius and Hollister, LLP; the University of Dayton; and Wright State University. Continuing education credits are pending.

For more information regarding either of these upcoming seminars, please contact Joe Baldasare at (937) 225-9954.