Conference Reports

Event Just Giving: Global Social Change Philanthropy Date 8-10 June Venue San Francisco, USA Organizer Grantmakers Without Borders Grantmakers Without Borders (Gw/oB) Executive Director John Harvey set the stage for the organization’s eighth annual conference …

Event 2008 CIVICUS World Assembly: Acting Together for a Just World – People, Participation and Power Date 18-21 June Venue Glasgow, Scotland Organizer CIVICUS Almost 1,200 delegates from more than 100 countries attended the 8th …

Event ACF Conference 2008: Thorny Questions, Fruitful Answers: Foundations meeting contemporary challenges Date 26-27 June Venue Nottingham, UK Organizer Association of Charitable Foundations Robin Hood was a – probably fictional – medieval English outlaw who …

More than 200 participants from over 31 countries came together for the first World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists in Istanbul in March. Much of the discussion focused on improving the effectiveness of philanthropy through approaches …

Entitled Human Security, Human Rights and the Shared Responsibility to Protect and billed as a Conversation between Elders and Emerging Leaders, the 7th Global Philanthropy Forum which took place in California in April brought together …

The annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, now in its fifth year, is above all a celebration of social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurs. The annual Skoll Awards are unchallenged Oscars of the field. The …

‘Philanthropy’s Role in the Climate Crisis: Transforming Interest into Impact’ was the title of a Symposium on Collaborative Philanthropy jointly convened by the Climate Change Philanthropy Action Network (CCPAN) and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) in …

With a theme of ‘Local Experiences, Global Transformations’, the three-day GIFE congress on Private Social Investment in April in Salvador, Brazil brought together a cross-section of corporate social investors, private philanthropists, and civil society, development …

So did the Council on Foundations’ grandly named Summit live up to its ambitions? With over 3,000 people attending, the Summit, held 4-7 May, certainly succeeded in bringing in the numbers. But it succeeded in …

The times are changing for the Jewish people. That was the message of two landmark conferences held in Israel last month, with the issues under discussion set to reverberate around the establishments of Jewish communities …