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From the Chair:  Lisa Mahon, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA

The AGPA Annual Meeting in New York last year was a tremendous success for participants and presenters.  In particular, the meeting experience was a special gift for those who received a scholarship to attend; in the words of one attendee “There is something so inexplicable about AGPA that makes me feel so professionally at home. I always leave feeling inspired, motivated and eager to take action and implement what I have learned from the masters of group therapy and from casual conversations from experts in the field."  You can see how the recipients benefitted from the scholarships in their own words in their letters of thanks.  We are already receiving a record number of applications for the upcoming 2012 Meeting.  We hope you will join in supporting this program that introduces students and new professionals to group psychotherapy, the AGPA community and the unique and stimulating learning experience that is the AGPA Annual Meeting.  Please consider making a gift in support of this program.  You can make a donation online or using the Education and Scholarship Gift Form.  Your donations have the power to impact the lives and the group work of these students and new professionals.

What many people do not know is that your contributions to the Education and Scholarship Fund also help GPF also help underwrite the Annual Meeting. A cornerstone of this organization, we would not be able to continue the Annual Meeting at its current level of excellence if it were not for the Foundation subsidizing its operating expenses. Additionally, the Educational Endowment Fund helps to endow workshops for our Annual Conference. As a way to expand this program so more people can contribute, we have initiated a Single-Year Event Sponsorship that allows you to make a onetime contribution to sponsor one program one year at the Annual Meeting. Check the Single-Event Sponsorship box on the Education and Scholarship Form.

I would like to invite you to become a member of the GPF Legacy Society by making a planned gift to the GPF.  The Legacy Society was initiated in 2008 and the members are acknowledged in the Group Assets publication. Bequests are one way to remember the organizations’ good works by providing for the GPF in your will. The GPF also offers Charitable Gift Annuities as a way to set up a future gift as an investment that provides you with income.  Legacy Society members are passionate, dedicated individuals who want to see our work continue for future generations. Your planned gift provides a living memorial and tribute to both your generosity and your dedication to the work of AGPA and GPF.   You can find out more now on planned giving.  Please also read this article from Ramon Alonso on the benefits and ease of a Charitable Gift Annuity.

In addition, there continues to be an expansion of Local Scholarship fundraising, with a task group chaired by Jeffrey Hudson of Austin, and with members Lenore Davis (NY), Sally Henry (NY), Richard Newman (Houston), Keith Rand (Southern California) Jana Rosenbaum (Houston), Barney Straus (Chicago), and Steve Van Wagoner (DC).  This is an impressive grass roots initiative and has greatly added to our scholarship capacity. To see our culture of giving penetrate to the local level is truly inspiring.

The GPF Annual Fund has been renamed the Leadership Fund. One hundred percent of the Tri-Organizational Board (this includes the AGPA, GPF, and National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists boards) has agreed to donate to the Leadership Fund, and all GPF Board members contributed a minimum of $2,000 to this Fund. This Fund covers all of the operating expenses of the organizations, and supports research grants, public advocacy programs, publication of training manuals (including in-process publications on addictions and substance abuse) and special projects such as China, India and Haiti relief work and programs for active military and veterans and their families.

The GPF also annually supports research projects designed to broaden the available body of knowledge in evidence-based group psychotherapy clinical practice.

All that you give makes a difference; no contribution is too small. Your donations help to change lives. Help us continue this work that I know means so much to all of you and give a gift today to the Group Psychotherapy Foundation.

The Group Psychotherapy Foundation Mission Statement

The Group Psychotherapy Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports group psychotherapy education, research, training, and information dissemination for the benefit of the public and professional communities.

Among the Group Psychotherapy Foundation’s most vital roles is the recognition of excellence, promise, and vision by honoring those individuals and groups who have demonstrated these qualities with Awards and Scholarships.

The Foundation also provides Research Grants that support other initiatives that advance group psychotherapy, group psychotherapy training, and publications. A newsletter, Group Assets, highlighting the activities of the Group Psychotherapy Foundation is published three times. The newsletter also recognizes the Foundation’s many generous donors.

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