Gw/oB - Just Giving Conference

Just Giving: Global Social Change Philanthropy

Africa Grantmakers Group

Annual Gathering
June 7th, 2010 - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

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9:00 to 9:30 am
Arrivals and Mapping
As guests arrive, we'll map where AGG Gathering participants are working on the continent, giving us a picture of the funding landscape drawn by this group of grantmakers.

9:30 to 10:00 am
Speed Networking
In the first of several facilitated networking sessions, we'll make fast first contact with other AGG Gathering participants. Like speed dating, only without the rejection.

10:00 am to 11:15 am
Opening Dialogue
Advocating Within the Funding Landscape: Two Foundation Perspectives
Where does your grantmaking fit within the funding landscape of regional policies, current debates, and larger funding flows? How do foundations connect to and influence the debate about the ideas that are most important to them? Are they successful? This panel answers these questions through two case studies of foundations that situate their grants within a funding landscape and advocate on critical policy issues. The New Field Foundation focuses on West Africa, sustainable agriculture, food security and land. They have engaged with many larger foundations and policy efforts through networking and targeted funding. The Firelight Foundation addresses the mechanisms of funding grassroots organizations that support vulnerable children and HIV/AIDS, and advocates on both the international and bilateral levels advocating for improved funding policies. With Sarah Hobson, New Field Foundation; Zanele Sibanda-Knight, Firelight Foundation; and Jennifer Astone, Jennifer Astone Consulting

11:15 to 11:30 am
Selection of Small Group Breakout Topics
Using a process called "Open Space", participants will democratically select the topics they'd like to cover during two breakout periods.

1:15 to 2:00 pm
Afternoon Dialogue
Women's Rights in Africa
What is the status of women across Africa? How are economic, social and political rights of women being advanced? And how can we as grantmakers make sure that every grant we make in Africa promotes gender equality? Our afternoon dialogue will explore these and other important questions. With Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, University of San Francisco; and Valentine Kalende Nankanja, Freedom and Roam Uganda (Uganda)

3:15 to 4:15 pm
The Reciprocity Web
In this facilitated networking exercise, each AGG Gathering participant will be able to tap into the broad and deep expertise of others to find immediate, tangible solutions to a challenge they currently face. The Reciprocity Web is a powerful networking tool that vividly illustrates the enormous value of active and engaged networking.

4:15 to 5:00 pm
Report-back, Next Steps and Closure
AGG Gathering participants will share what they've learned during the course of the day and explore ways to stay connected—and supportive of one another—in the year ahead.

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