Community Foundations of Canada Conference

Event Our Communities, Our World: Community Foundations of Canada Conference
Date 7-9 November
Venue Montreal, Canada

Canada’s remarkable movement of community foundations (now numbering 165) brought the world to Montreal for a truly global gathering in November. Community Foundations of Canada’s biennial conference, ‘Our Communities, Our World’, drew more than 650 delegates, including participants from across Canada and from 29 other countries, to engage in an inspiring dialogue about the past, present and future of community philanthropy. Click here to read ...

Global Perspectives on Major Donor Fundraising

Event Global Perspectives on Major Donor Fundraising
Date 6-7 November
Venue London, UK
Organizers Institute of Philanthropy/Association of Fundraising Professionals

‘Fundraisers represent the demand side,’ said Paul Schervish, Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College, USA. ‘They need to understand the supply side.’ What he calls the ‘new physics of philanthropy’ offers 12 ‘vectors’ which together provide a framework for understanding donors. As editor of a philanthropy magazine, I worry about donors having too much power. Going to a fundraisers’ conference can only add to that worry. Click here to read ...

Social Capital Markets Conference

Event Social Capital Markets Conference
Date 13-15 October
Venue San Francisco, USA Click here to read ...

Grantmakers East Forum

Event Grantmakers East Forum: Engage
Date 8-10 October
Venue Dubrovnik, Croatia

In October, the resort of Dubrovnik usually welcomes American and British tourists. This year it also played host to the155 participants of the GEF conference representing local foundations, international donors, corporate funders – 155 out of 166 who registered for the conference. My guess is that the missing 11 ended up at the beach as the weather was gorgeous. But, yes, back to the conference. Click here to read ...

Online Giving Marketplaces conference

Event Online Giving Marketplaces: Changing the Face of Philanthropy
Date 8 October 2008
Venue Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Organizer Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the heart of Silicon Valley – and in the midst of a global economic crisis – the Stanford Social Innovation Review drew an audience of nearly 250 philanthropists, non-profit managers and social entrepreneurs to participate in a day-long conference on the evolving world of online philanthropy. The conference brought together executives from 14 online giving sites, making it the largest-yet public gathering of leaders in internet-enabled philanthropy. Click here to read ...

4th EVPA Annual Conference

Event 4th EVPA Annual Conference
Date 23 September
Venue Frankfurt, Germany
Organizer European Venture Philanthropy Association

‘What does VP mean to us?’ asked Doug Miller, EVPA’s outgoing chair, speaking at this year’s EVPA conference in Frankfurt. His answer: long-term funding, long-term relationships, hands-on support and building core capacity. Indeed, these long-term commitments might well become increasingly important in the light of recent events. As David Carrington, chairing the conference, remarked, the financial crisis is bound to have an impact on venture philanthropy. Click here to read ...

CAF Southern Africa conference

Event CAF Southern Africa conference: Innovating for Sustainability – ‘Africans Investing in Africa’
Date 17-18 September
Venue Johannesburg, South Africa Click here to read ...

Grantmakers Without Borders Conference

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 in his opening remarks when he said, ‘If we do not solve the global challenges of energy, water and climate change in ways that address equity, social justice and human rights, we will not succeed.’ Click here to read ...

ACF Conference 2008

Event ACF Conference 2008: Thorny Questions, Fruitful Answers: Foundations meeting contemporary challenges
Date 26-27 June
Venue Nottingham, UK
Organizer Association of Charitable Foundations Click here to read ...

4th APPC Regional Conference

Event APPC's 4th Regional Conference
Date 21-23 May
Venue Hanoi, Vietnam
Organizer Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium
Theme Diaspora Giving: An Agent of Change in Asia Pacific Communities?

Is diaspora giving an agent of change in Asia Pacific communities? Can it be? Is disparate charitable giving by diaspora communities to their countries of origin shifting to more strategic giving directed to achieving social change? These were some of the questions posed to the 120 participants at the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium’s fourth regional conference, held in May.

Why focus on the diaspora? Click here to read ...