Exclusively for PFC Members In Person

[Save the Date] CEO Retreat 2026

10 - 12 June 2026 / Registration Open

[Save the Date]

To all CEOs, EDs – or other equivalent executive leader titles – of PFC member organizations, please hold Wednesday, June 10-Friday June 12, 2026, in your calendar for PFC’s 2026 CEO Retreat, which will take place in Grand Tracadie, PEI at the beautiful Blackbush Beach Resort, only a 20-minute drive from Charlottetown Airport. 

The program will begin the evening of Wednesday, June 10 (7 PM) and continue to late afternoon on Friday, June 12. Full details will be shared in the new year, when registration will open.   

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Erin Matheson

Executive Coordinator

Erin has spent her career working in philanthropy and government. Passionate about working with community-based organizations, she managed an Irish cultural non-profit for many years, which allowed her to support the community in which she was raised. More recently, she worked with healthcare and education non-profit groups.

As Executive Coordinator, Erin supports the team in achieving the goals identified in its strategic framework by developing and implementing crucial structures for collaboration within the organization.

She is a proud mother of three daughters, dedicated friend and family member, and enjoys sharing her love of baking with those around her.

Jean-Marc Mangin

President & CEO

Jean-Marc has been President & CEO of Philanthropic Foundations Canada since 2019. He currently sits on the Government of Canada’s Advisory Committee on the Charitable Sector.

Prior to PFC, Jean-Marc led a renewal process of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest national organization of Canadian researchers and scholars as its Executive Director.

He also has had a long career serving in international development with the UN, NGOs, and the Canadian Government in responding to global humanitarian disasters and development challenges. As CUSO Executive Director, he led a merger with VSO-Canada, and he was the first Executive Director of Global Call for Climate Action, a cross-sector civil society initiative supporting transformational change to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Born in Manitoba, raised in Quebec, and educated in BC and Ontario, he holds an MA in Political Sciences and Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto.

The land that Jean-Marc lives, learns and works on has been home to many Indigenous communities throughout time, and is the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin People.