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Global Policy, Grassroots Change
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
October 14 October 15 October 16
Conference Orientation 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Need advice on how to meet your conference learning goals? Concerned you won't understand some of the terms and concepts you'll hear at the gathering? Then join others for an overview of the conference and meet one-on-one with session designers to get the scoop on their workshops.
Welcome Reception 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Relax after your arrival, catch up with old colleagues and meet new ones at a festive gathering for out-of-town conference arrivals. Miami-area participants are also warmly encouraged to stop by. With refreshments, music, and good cheer.
Opening Plenary
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Featured Session: International Grantmaking Seminar
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Concurrent Workshops 10:15 am to 12:00 pm
Funding in Societies Coping with Conflict and Oppression
This workshop will explore how funders can best support positive change in countries where governments are undemocratic and where civil society is strictly controlled or suppressed. With Jennifer Anderson-Bahr, Firelight Foundation; Catherine Shimony, American Jewish World Service; Naw Dorcus Moo, Earthrights International; Betty Makoni, Girl Child Network (Zimbabwe); and Sakena Yacoobi, Afghan Institute of Learning
Lessons from a Responsible Finance Campaign
Learn how Russian environmentalists are leading a multifaceted campaign to oppose a huge oil and gas development project on Sakhalin Island that could have a ruinous environmental and social impact. With David Gordon, Pacific Environment; Lisa Tracy, Philanthropy Vision; and Dimitri Lisitsyn, Sakhalin Environment Watch (Russia)
Land for the Landless, Water for the Thirsty: Community-based Campaigns for Resource Rights
An exploration of how strategic funding can assist community-based solutions to guaranteeing the resource rights of low-income rural and urban families. With Kevin Murray, Grassroots International; Elvira Sánchez Toscano, Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty (Guatemala); and Yael Falicov, International Development Exchange
Indigenous Peoples of Nicaragua and a Strategy for Autonomous Development
Indigenous communities of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast are breaking new ground in the struggle for Indigenous autonomy. Learn about their vision and how funders can best support it. With Armstrong Wiggins, Indian Law Resource Institute; Myrna Cunningham, Inter-American Indigenous Institute (Nicaragua); and Rebecca Adamson, First Nations Development Institute
Roundtable Lunch 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Concurrent Workshops 1:45 to 3:30 pm
Solutions to the Global Freshwater Crisis
By 2025, a third of the world will live without adequate access to freshwater. This workshop will look at efforts to redirect water policy and sustainable water projects at the grassroots level. With David Douglas, Wallace Genetic Foundation; Gregorio Ch'oc, Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (Belize); Shaun Paul, EcoLogic Development Fund; and Lorna Carolina Zelaya, La Fundacion Parque Nacional Pico Bonito (Honduras)
US Military Dominance: From the Fields of Colombia to Outer Space
The Bush Administration is seeking to remove Congressional restraints on military engagement in Colombia, while the US Space Command is talking about the weaponization of space. Experts will address these moves towards further US military dominance. With Wayne Jaquith, Peace and Security Funders Group; Ingrid Vaicius, Center for International Policy; and Loring Wirbel, Citizens for Peace in Space
Popular Education for Policy Change: The Case of Iraq
With US intervention in Iraq as a framework, funders will participate in and discuss popular education activities to learn first-hand about this effective organizing tool. With Kevin Murray, Grassroots International
Human Rights Cities: A Tool for Movement Building
Around the world, communities are modeling a framework for human rights living. Hear from leaders of this cutting edge approach and from some of the funders supporting it. With Shulamith Koenig and Minar Pimple, People's Movement for Human Rights Learning
Concurrent Workshops 3:45 to 5:30 pm
New Roads to Global Justice Grantmaking: Seeing the World Through Ecological Eyes
Explore the ecological and social implications of neoliberal economic policy and learn about a different kind of framework, Ecological Economics, which offers an alternative approach to the way funders and others think about sustainable development. With Mark Randazzo, Funders Network on Trade and Globalizations; David Batker, APEX Center for Applied Ecological Economics; and Isabel de la Torre, Industrial Shrimp Action Network
Colonies in Question: Grassroots Movements in US Territories and Jurisdictions
Examine the history and impact of US colonialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific and explore Indigenous efforts to address militarism, labor, cultural preservation, tourism, and other concerns. With Surina Khan, Funding Exchange; Eddie Benavente, Guam Ancestral Lands Commission (Guam); and Barbara Lee-Jackson, Virgin Islands Perinatal Incorporated (US Virgin Islands)
Labor Rights in the Global Economy: Seizing an Opportunity to Let Those Who Sweat Set the Standards
Reorganization of the global garment industry in 2005 will offer new openings to improve labor standards. How can funders support these opportunities for leveraging worker rights? With Lynda Yanz, Maquila Solidarity Network (Canada); Melanie Beth Oliviero, Strategies for Social Change; Maritza Paredes, Independent Monitoring Team of Honduras (Honduras); Carlos Goncalves, Gap, Inc.; and Homero Fuentes, Commission for the Verification of Codes of Conduct (Guatemala)
Extractive Industries and Worker Health
How are mining communities organizing to protect their health? This session will look at efforts in India and South Africa to gain worker protection from occupational lung diseases and other disabling health conditions. With Shashi Tyagi, GRAVIS (India)
Dinner and a Movie 6:00 to 9:30 pm
The first day of Gw/oB's conference ends with an informal buffet dinner to allow for networking time and with the screening of a films related to the conference theme: "Life and Debt" and "The Agronomist". Popcorn included
Special Networking Event
The Reciprocity Web
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Concurrent Workshops 8:45 to 10:30 am
Witnessing Haiti: A Report-Back on Gw/oB's Donor Delegation to Haiti
Participants in Gw/oB's pre-conference donor delegation to Haiti will share stories and insights from their six-day encounter in Port-au-Prince and the Haitian countryside.
Call and Response: Models for Community-Responsive Partnership and Philanthropy
This session will discuss how foundations can forge partnerships that maximize community control and decision-making. With Michelle Coffey, Tides Foundations; Donna Bransford, ACORN International; and Rosaura Lopez-Fontanez, Puerto Rico CONCRA (Puerto Rico)
Reproductive and Sexual Rights Held Ransom
US policies under the Bush Administration are taking a toll on reproductive health the world over. This session will present a picture of the impact of the Global Gag Rule and other policies on the ground. With Denise Shannon, Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights; Monica Oguttu, K-MET (Kenya); and Leila Hessini, IPAS
Grassroots Struggles for Economic Justice in Africa
This panel will highlight successful efforts in West and Southern Africa to organize grassroots communities in the fight for equitable, and sustainable development. With Sowore Omoyele, Sowore; Chris Allan, Global Greengrants Fund; and Coumba Toure, Institute for Popular Education (Senegal)
Partnership or Control: Money and Power in International Conservation Work
A huge amount of funding for global environmental issues is concentrated in the hands of a few multinational non-profits. This session will address the growing controversy over the impact of Northern conservation organizations working in the global South. With Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Global Greengrants Fund; Cristi Nozawa, Bird Life International (Philippines); and Maria Fernanda Espinosa, IUCN (Ecuador)
Concurrent Workshops 10:45 am to 12:30 pm
The US "War on Terrorism"
What has been the impact of the US "war on terrorism" in the global South, and is the world any safer as a result of US actions? A panel of experts will debate this issue. With Regan Ralph, Fund for Global Human Rights; Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies; and Achin Vanaik, Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (India)
Integrating the Issues: Peru's Camisea Pipeline Project
A close examination of the Camisea Gas Pipeline project will illustrate how issues as diverse as biodiversity, Indigenous rights, trade, pollution and climate change can be affected by the policies of international financial institutions and by public and private investment decisions. With Kay Treakle, The C.S. Mott Fund; Haroldo Salazar, Organization AIDESEP, Indigenous Machiguenga of the Peruvian Amazon (Peru); Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch; and Michelle Chan-Fishel, Friends of the Earth
NOT the Last to Know: The Grassroots/Global Partnership to Ensure Free, Prior and Informed Consent
This panel will describe partnerships to push international financial institutions, governments and corporations to adopt Free, Prior and Informed Consent policies (FPIC), a principle of international law and an important tool to fight unsustainable and environmentally damaging development. With Carlos Zorilla, DECOIN (Ecuador); Paula Palmer, Global Response; Armstrong Wiggins, Indian Law Resource Center; and Chris Allan, Global Greengrants Fund
The Globalization and Mechanization of Citrus Farming: Effects for Farmworkers in Florida and Brazil
Come learn about the Florida citrus industry's relationship to global markets and the effects of free trade both domestically and abroad. With Anne Bastian, New World Foundation; Tanya Dawkins, Inter-American Forum; Tirso Moreno, Farmworker Association of Florida; and José Sebastião Gonçales, Federation of Agricultural Workers in the State of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Lunch and Annual Meeting 12:30 to 2:00 pm
Grantmakers Without Borders' annual meeting, open to all conference participants, will feature a presentation and discussion of our new Strategic Plan.
Special Event
Meeting Miami's Haitian Community
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Concurrent Workshops 2:15 to 4:00 pm
Insider/Outsider Strategies in Social Change Grantmaking
Organizations seeking major policy changes have adopted both outsider strategies-protest, resistance, and the creation of alternatives-and insider strategies-working within the halls of power. This session will help funders understand the tensions between organizations taking opposing strategies and how best they can support the bridging of diverse approaches. With Kay Treakle, The C.S. Mott Foundation; Lael Parish, The Moriah Fund; Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch; and Pablo Solon, Fundacion Solon (Bolivia)
The Circumpolar Arctic and Climate Change
This session will share the on-the-tundra experience of Arctic indigenous communities negatively affected by development policies and greenhouse gas emissions originating from outside the region and their efforts to effect positive change for their peoples. With Robert Corell, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment; Pavel Sulyandziga, Russian Association of Indigenous People of the North (Russia); Sheila Watt Cloutier, Inuit Circumpolar Conference (Canada); Evelyn Hurwitch, Circumpolar Conservation Union; and Craig L. Fleener, Gwich'in Council International
South/South Tensions in the China/ASEAN Trade Agreements
Negotiations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China illustrate an emerging trend in trade relations: a global Southern powerhouse negotiating with weaker global Southern nations. This workshop will describe the challenges and opportunities in this new dynamic. With Matthew Coghlan, Oxfam America; Tanya Dawkins, Inter-American Forum; Chai Yu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China); and Supat Boonping, Northern Logan Producer Association (Thailand)
Corporate Social Responsibility: Examples of the potential and limitations of CSR
Hear from activists and leaders involved in on-going, and in many cases successful, campaigns to address corporate power in their own communities and in collaboration with others around the world. Panelists will discuss specific policy reforms, circumstances under which corporate-NGO partnerships work, how to approach the questions of corporate responsibility vs. accountability, financial aspects of CSR, including the role of shareholders in pushing the CSR agenda, and alternatives. With Antonia Juhasz, International Forum on Globalization; Michelle Chan-Fishel, Friends of the Earth, Dimitri Lisitsyn, Sakhalin Environment Watch (Russia), Tim Concannon, Stakeholder Democracy (Nigeria); and Kumi Naidoo (South Africa), Civicus as moderator.
Concurrent Workshops 4:15 to 6:00 pm
Markets of Solidarity, Zones of Peace: Funding Alternatives to Corporate-Driven Globalization
This workshop will present funders with two case studies of how peasants articulated and implemented different strategies for successful economic development and civic engagement outside the reach of corporate globalization. With Aristides Valencia, La Asociacion Mangle (El Salvador); Harold Baron, Communitas Charitable Trust; and Trinidad Sanchez, Red COMAL (Honduras)
Youth Together Against AIDS
How are young people around the world being affected by AIDS, and how are they organizing to address the pandemic? With Jake Heimark, High School Student and UK Chapter of Free the Children; and Maria Porter, Youth Philanthropy Worldwide
Building a Domestic Movement for Positive US Global Engagement
This session will discuss the work of Connect Us, a newly emerged network of grantmakers and civil society partners working to re-imagine and re-direct US international engagement. With Tod Hill, Tides Foundation; Priscilla Lewis, Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Tanya Dawkins, Inter-American Forum; and Maria Fernanda Espinosa, IUCN (Ecuador)
Dinner and Closing Session: Culture and Social Change
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Global Policy, Grassroots Change: About the Conference - Conference Program
Pre-Conference Event: Funder Delegation to Haiti
Post-conference event: Democracy Bound - Annual Conference of the National Network of Grantmakers
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