For Immediate Release

Media Contact: Anne Mudgett
Rural Philanthropy Days
Event Coordinator
970.367.4439
coordinator@northwestrpd.org

Northwest Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days
Online Registration Open

Steamboat Springs, CO (July 28, 2009)--Online registration is now open for Northwest Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days (RPD). Nonprofit participants can take advantage of Early Bird registration and save $20 when you register before August 1. RPD is a three-day regional event taking place September 16-18, 2009 in Steamboat Springs. The Northwest region is comprised of five counties: Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco and Routt.
The $115 Early Bird registration includes real world tools for nonprofits; forums with Front Range funders and government representatives about our region's achievements and challenges; informal networking; capacity building workshops; and all meals, featuring a mountain-top reception and informal dinners at local nonprofit venues. Keynote speaker for the event is Robert Egger. Among his many other honors, Egger has been named three years in a row to the Non Profit Times’ Power & Influence Top 50 list as one of the sector’s top executives and thinkers.
To learn more, view a complete event agenda and register online, go to www.northwestrpd.org

About RPD:
The theme of Northwest Colorado RPD is “Trailblazing through Changing Times.” This timely—yet historic—inspiration sets the stage for an event that will assist nonprofits to harness the human resources in their communities, tap into the financial resources available through private foundations, government, businesses and individual donors, and foster the resourcefulness that made the West what it is today.

During the creation of the first Colorado Grants Guide in 1991, the Community Resource Center (CRC) of Denver discovered that only 3% of the funds granted by Colorado private foundations were awarded outside the Front Range. RPD began in response to this disparity, with the inaugural event held in Grand Junction in 1991. The event is held in two different rural regions of Colorado each year, with each region hosting the event every four years. RPD has become the bridge to connect Front Range foundations with rural nonprofits It provides an opportunity to build relationships and educate each other on the critical needs of our region. Since Rural Philanthropy Days’ inception, grant-makers have increased their funding of rural nonprofit organizations by 300%.

More than 300 nonprofits are expected to attend the 2009 Northwest Colorado RPD, as well as 50 private and government funders.

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