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European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding
Event European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding Date 4 December Venue Brussels, Belgium Organizer European Foundation Centre For some years now a group of research-focused foundations has been working with the European Commission to …
Woburn Place Collaborative Colloquium
Event First Woburn Place Collaborative Annual Colloquium Date 6-8 December 2007 Venue Long Ditton, UK The character of foundation intervention, the nature of collaboration, and the raison d’être of the Woburn Place Collaborative (WPC) itself …
Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group meeting
Event Funding Impact Conference: Partnerships, Networks and Collaborations – A learning opportunity Date 4-6 February Venue Johannesburg, South Africa Organizer Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group AGAG (the Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group) is one of those entities …
Global U
Event Global U: How to Connect Your Charitable Giving to Your Global Interests Date 7 February Venue Chicago, USA Organizer Chicago Global Donors Network Founded in 2003 by Marjorie Benton and Adele Simmons, active international …
GuideStar International Assembly
Can GuideStar solve the problem of providing the data that will make the work of CSOs more accessible and more transparent? This was one of the questions the GuideStar International Assembly in London in September …
ACF 2007 Conference
The importance of civil society’s campaigning role, engaging with new philanthropists, mission-related investing and climate change were among the topics discussed at this year’s conference of the UK-based Association of Charitable Foundations, which took place …
Grantmakers East Forum
Innovation was the theme of this year’s Grantmakers East Forum (the conference of the renamed Grantmakers East Group), which took place in Tallinn in October. In the past the event has been dominated by large …
EFC Summer Academy
The real impact of foundations’ work will be seen only in the long term, but this makes attribution difficult. That was the general conclusion of this year’s EFC Summer Academy on impact-driven philanthropy, held in …
EVPA Conference
The European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) held its third annual conference in Madrid on 25 October. It was attended by almost 300 people from 30 countries, including the US, Latin America, China and South Africa …
2007 Fall Conference for Community Foundations
The title of the 2007 Council on Foundations community foundations conference, ‘Eureka! Learn, Lead, and Grow’, and the content of the sessions, indicates a marked shift in the tone of such events, away from the …