A step in the right direction

From 4 to 7 May, over 3,000 people gathered in the greater Washington DC area in what I am told was the largest assembly on philanthropy in history. Some 80 plus concurrent sessions, 11 site visits, a cluster of Advanced Practice Institutes, 6 mini-summits, and 6 plenaries later, what did it all add up to? My answer to that is that it was a step in the right direction.