IEFA December Member Meeting — Looking Back, Looking Ahead

IEFA’s December bimonthly member meeting will be Wednesday, December 10th from 10am-12pm.

Nonprofits across the Inland Empire are organizing themselves in aligned, integrated ways to meet the complex challenges facing their communities. We funders must organize ourselves as well if we want to be trustworthy partners. We each hold relationships with the organizations and leaders we fund to do transformative work, but it can sometimes be hard to see how our own grantmaking efforts contribute to closing systemic gaps that face our region. 

Join your Funders Alliance colleagues for our December member meeting in a “Show and Tell” peer conversation in a confidential environment among fellow funders. You will have the chance to:

• Gain insights into your grantmaking colleagues’ funding in the region, both within your own programmatic focus areas and in complementary ones.
• Share your own current grantees and/or 2026 grantmaking priorities to raise awareness of your organization’s work and explore co-funding opportunities.
• Uplift organizations you might wish you could fund but can’t, and that you want to invite fellow funders to consider supporting.

This will be an open, collegial space to learn from and with your peers, whether you’re refining your portfolio for the year ahead, reevaluating strategies, or looking to discover new partners. Together, we will gain a better understanding of the funding landscape and strengthen our ecosystem of support for organizations advancing community resilience and wellbeing across the Inland Empire.

Note: To make this peer conversation as fruitful as possible, we ask that all attendees: 

• Bring to this conversation your current and/or planned 2026 portfolio of grantees—or at least be prepared to share your primary grantmaking strategies in the coming year.
• Come with an idea of at least 1-2 organizations you can’t support (or at least can’t fully support) and feel are worthy of funding by your fellow funders.
• Be grantmaking staff of institutions funding in the Inland Empire and adhere to our Guidelines for Engagement.

This gathering will also be an informal end-of-year celebratory brunch. So bring your grantee list, your curiosity, and your appetite — and join your fellow Funders Alliance members for a rich, practical peer exchange of ideas and connections.

Please RSVP below to reserve your spot!