Gw/oB - Just Giving Conference

Just Giving: Global Social Change Philanthropy

Meso-American 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 MAGG Gathering participants are working in the region, 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 MAGG Gathering participants. Like speed dating, only without the rejection.

10:00 am to 10:45 am
Opening Dialogue
Bringing it on Home: Immigrant Grantmaking Across Borders
Despite the increasing barriers they face, migrants continue to make the journey northward from Mexico and Central America daily to try to improve conditions for their families at home. And in purely economic terms, they appear to be succeeding: migrant remittances remain among the most significant sources of economic revenue for most of the countries in Mesoamerica. In recent years many immigrants have created formal and informal organizations here in the US in order to pool their earnings and support community improvement efforts back in their hometowns. How is this grassroots movement affecting the dynamic of development? And what are the opportunities and challenges involved in partnering with these diaspora groups? With Francis Capoltura, Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action (TIGRA); and Andrea Rocha, Foundation for Change

10:45 to 11:00 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 Meso-America
What is the status of women in Mexico and Central America? 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 Meso-America promotes gender equality? Our afternoon dialogue will explore these and other important questions. With Eugenia López Uribe, MARIA Abortion Fund for Social Justice (Mexico); and Carla Lopez, Central American Women's Fund (Nicaragua)

3:15 to 4:15 pm
The Reciprocity Web
In this facilitated networking exercise, each MAGG 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
MAGG 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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