The Threshold community provides a place where people with significant financial resources, a commitment to social change, and an interest in their own emotional, psychological and spiritual development can come together to dream, learn, work and play.
The Threshold community gathers twice a year at winter and summer conferences.
Members who serve on grantmaking committees meet for a few days before these events to review and collectively determine grants. Threshold meetings offer opportunities for both novice and experienced donors to learn about social change philanthropy and to engage with allies, activists, thinkers and fellow donors at the leading edges of social change movements.
At these retreats, Threshold members deeply examine their inner lives, relationships and individual practices of social responsibility. We have observed that social change flows from personal growth, and we examine our inner lives and social responsibility simultaneously. Our meetings are less like formal conferences, more like ongoing experiments. We challenge ourselves to examine the contradictions inherent in the privilege of wealth and our stated desire to support justice in the world. We support each other to discover our most meaningful work and purpose, and to engage with others from that discovery. We try hard to follow the counsel of Mahatma Gandhi to “Be the change we wish to see in the world.”
