“Crossing the Threshold from Philanthropy to Community Care”
Cost: Member - $50 | Non-Member - $75
About the Event:
Join us and other committed individuals for a virtual presentation to hear from these inspired thought leaders, hear about impactful giving, be inspired in ways you too can make an impact.
Celebrate and recognize Kristi Mathisen, Laird Norton Wealth Management, as the 2022 Frank Minton Professional Achievement Awardee.
Threshold Philanthropy Co-CEOs Morgan Dawson and Lindsay Hill and founder Beth McCaw will share the founding story behind Threshold Philanthropy, a philanthropic start-up centered around co-creating new practices to return resources to Black, Indigenous, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in Washington and the Carolinas. Pulling back the curtain on what makes their work unique, Beth, Lindsay, and Morgan will vulnerably reflect on their own experiences and collective work in this new entity.
Presenters Include:
Morgan Dawson, Co-CEO Threshold Philanthropy
Morgan is an organizer of people, curator of resources, and lover of details.
Morgan Dawson is from Southern California, but from the age of 14 until she went off to college she lived in Houston, Texas. She thrived with the support of the web of friends and neighbors her mom built and her access to programs like YMCA aftercare and the Dream Center. In Texas, the school system provided students with a late bus, so that all students could participate in after-school activities and still have a safe ride home. It was through the after-school bus program and other examples of community care that Morgan realized how small changes could change the course of someone’s life.
After truly learning what philanthropy was, Morgan knew she could do it better.
Now as Co-CEO at Threshold Philanthropy, Morgan is guided by her lived experience. She has a firsthand experience with bias, walking into rooms where everyone assumes she is not meant to be there. She wants to change the experience for other Black women as well as her own. She wants to make space for the people that this country fails. Her goal is not simply to make philanthropy better, but to create communities that are welcoming and fruitful for everyone. She wants us to be better neighbors. This is what drives her.
Morgan is who she is only because the fierce women in her life, starting with her mother, her nana, and Granny Dawson, have believed in her and told her she would do great things. “People have just always poured into me” -- and that's what she hopes to do for others.
Lindsay Hill, Co-CEO Threshold Philanthropy
Lindsay Hill is the Co-CEO of Threshold Philanthropy and an educator, speaker, doula, and mother. In everything that she does, she brings a deep sense of responsibility to support as much repair, transformation, and healing as she can—a responsibility that first led her to a career in the education sector. Lindsay co-founded Threshold to redefine philanthropy as reparative action and investment, to support Black women in a liberatory and healing culture, and to partner with and resource the movements, communities, leaders, healers, artists, and designers who are visioning and building a more just and liberated world. In her role as Co-CEO, she develops and refines the organizational vision, leads grantmaking and investment work, supports the development of internal systems and structures, and leads external communications and narrative work. Threshold is showing what philanthropy can accomplish when following the leadership of Black women and Lindsay is honored to contribute to the normalization of centering Black women’s visions across the sector.
Beth McCaw, Founding Funder Threshold Philanthropy
Sponsorship Opportunities:
Conference Sponsor ($2,000) - Logo on WPGC website and monthly e-blasts, 4 complimentary registrations to monthly programs, opportunity to introduce speaker
Sustaining Sponsor ($1,000) - Logo on WPGC website and monthly e-blasts, 2 complimentary registrations to monthly programs,
Minton Award Sponsor ($1,000) - Logo on WPGC website and monthly e-blasts, 2 complimentary registrations to monthly programs, opportunity to introduce award
Partner Sponsor ($500) - Logo on WPGC website and 1 complimentary registration to monthly programs