GDConnect is designed to provide thought leadership and best GivingData practices to all organizations within the GivingData community, from the grantmakers who use the system to the consultants and philanthropy-serving organizations we partner with. The GivingData userbase consists of nearly 200 grantmaking organizations of all sizes. No matter your level of expertise or familiarity with GivingData, even if you haven't started implementation, this event will have a lot to offer you.

GDConnect 2025 will start at 8:00 AM on September 17 and end at 3:00 PM on September 19.

Each year, we provide a GivingData 101 session that takes place the day before the event, September 16 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This session is perfect for new GivingData users, whether you're new to a foundation who has been using GivingData for a while or your foundation just recently joined the GivingData community and are going into implementation, currently in implementation, or recently completed it.

Registration will launch on June 23.

Breakfast and lunch are provided through each of the three days of the event. A packed lunch will be provided on Day 3. Dinner on Day 1 and 2 will be self-organized. We recommend reserving a place after our reception on Day 1 and participating in the dine-arounds on Day 2.

This year, we're partnering with a new technology for the registration and mobile app: EventMobi. The EventMobi GDConnect 2025 app will be available a couple of weeks before the event.

Hilton Downtown Portland

During GDConnect 2025, we will be photographing and recording various aspects of our programs, and your image, voice, and conversations might be captured. By registering for this event, attendees accept the terms of our Photography, Video, and Audio Release:

By participating in this convening, you authorize GivingData to use and reproduce any photographs, videos, chats, and audio recordings taken, for promotion or distribution.  GivingData recognizes that people have varying levels of comfort being recorded. For more information, please contact info@givingdata.com.

Tickets can be cancelled with a full refund by August 22, 2025. You can transfer your ticket to another guest all the way up to September 5, 2025.

There is currently not an opportunity to attend GDConnect virtually. We will share recordings of plenary sessions and a few select breakout sessions after the event.

The first version of the agenda will be released alongside the launch of registration on June 23, 2025. Updates and more information will be released as we get closer to the event.