Civic reflection was on the agenda at the 2007 Community Investment Network conference, "Civic Responsibility: Re-connecting People to their Communities," held in Durham, North Carolina from October 5-7. Project on Civic Reflection director Elizabeth Lynn led a group of about 40 conference participants in a reflective conversation on the civic web that connects individual citizens and on the relationship between philanthropy and social change.

Among the Community Investment Network's goals are to demystify institutional philanthropy and to foster new philanthropic leadership from communities of color. Featured speakers at the conference were Dr. Emmett D. Carson, President and C.E.O. of Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Reverend Romal Tune, C.E.O. and President of Clergy Strategic Alliances; and Ms. Margaret Rose Murray, community philanthropist and Co-Founder of Vital Link School.