Conference Reports

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 …

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 …

Political instability, poor legislation and lack of a clear distinction between the roles of government and civil society are the main handicaps to the evolution of social investment in Latin America. This was one of …

Accountability: Delivering Results, the theme of the CIVICUS World Assembly, held in Glasgow, Scotland in June, drew over 1,000 participants. Of these, 40 per cent concluded in the opening plenary that the world’s problems are …

Addressing the closing plenary of the European Foundation Centre 18th Annual General Assembly and Conference in Madrid in early June, Barry Gaberman spoke of ‘a buzz in the hallways’. The conference, New Challenges for Global …

The Grantmakers Without Borders annual conference drew over 200 funders, individual donors and civil society activists to New York in June. Two hot topics for discussion were microcredit and the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations’ new …

How effectively are we measuring progress and how well are we communicating that to public opinion and policymakers? Is any of it making a difference? These were some of the key questions addressed by the …

As one would expect from an event organized by a relatively young and high-impact initiative to enhance foundation effectiveness, the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s biennial conference in Chicago in early March was a case study …

Where is innovation happening and how do we get more of it, was the question this year’s Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship aimed to answer. Held in Oxford in late March, it attracted nearly …

This year’s Global Philanthropy Forum in early April focused on financing social change and took place in the headquarters of Google. The location inspired keynote speaker Judith Rodin of the Rockefeller Foundation to describe the …