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

Your generosity of giving to the Education and Scholarship Fund allowed the Group Psychotherapy Foundation (GPF) to provide 123 scholarships for the 2010 Institute and Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.  Letters of thanks received from scholarship recipients praise the learning, the welcoming atmosphere and the generosity of the AGPA community over and over again.   The Education and Scholarship Fund covers the direct cost for program sustainability for all the education and scholarship programs. But it takes your gifts to be able to do this. It is through your donations to the GPF’s Education and Scholarship Fund that the scholarship recipients are given the opportunity to experience the expertise, training, and networking our organization offers at the Annual Meeting. In return, these scholarship recipients bring us new ideas about group, energize our organization, and go on to provide the group care that their clients need and deserve.   Please donate now to the Education and Scholarship Fund 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. Trish Cleary, LCPC-MFT, CGP, FAGPA, and Phyllis Cohen, PhD, PsyD, CGP, FAGPA, immediate past co-chairs of the GPF Scholarship and Awards Committee, have provided their direction and vision for the scholarship program, as well as the launching the Group Psychotherapy Foundation’s “Honor Your Mentor Program” this past year. 

In addition, there continues to be an expansion of Local Scholarship fundraising, with a task group chaired by Jeffrey Hudson, MEd, LPC, CGP, FAGPA of Austin, and with members Phyllis Cohen (NY), Jacqueline Fish (NY), Katie Griffin (Austin), Darryl Pure and 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.

What many people do not know is that their contributions 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.

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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